A brand new examine by the European Car Producers’ Affiliation (ACEA) exhibits that there are at present 6.2 million medium and heavy industrial autos on the EU’s roads, the common age of which is 13 years.
Nearly 98% of all these vans run on diesel based on the 2021 ‘Automobiles in Use’ report, printed at this time. Just a few 2,300 – or 0.04% of the overall fleet – are zero-emission vans.
European truck makers estimate that round 200,000 zero-emission vans should be in operation by 2030 in an effort to meet the CO2 targets for heavy-duty vans. Primarily based on ACEA’s new knowledge, this may require a staggering 100-fold improve within the area of underneath 10 years.
In its recently-published Mobility Technique nevertheless, the European Fee laid out the target to have some 80,000 zero-emission vans on the street by 2030, which in reality falls far quick of what’s required by the CO2 regulation (-30% emissions).
“European truck producers are dedicated to bringing zero-emission vans to the market, and will probably be quickly rising their vary of zero-emission automobile choices over the following few years,” mentioned ACEA’s Director Normal, Eric-Mark Huitema. “Nonetheless, they can’t make such a radical and unprecedented shift alone.”
To make zero-emission vans the popular alternative of transport operators, pressing motion is required on European and member state ranges. This contains establishing CO2-based street costs, power taxation primarily based on the carbon and power content material of fuels, a sound CO2 emissions pricing system and, most significantly, a dense community of charging and refuelling infrastructure appropriate for vans.
ACEA’s new report additionally reveals the next details in regards to the fleet of business autos (vans, vans and buses) working in Europe at this time:
- Counting virtually 1.2 million vans, Poland has the biggest truck fleet, adopted intently by Germany (1,010,742) and Italy (946,393).
- Aged greater than 21 years, Greek vans are the oldest within the EU. The most recent vans will be present in Austria (6.4 years).
- Greater than 28 million vans are in circulation all through the EU. With 6 million autos, France has by far the biggest van fleet.
- The common age of sunshine industrial autos within the EU is 11.6 years. Among the many EU’s 4 main markets, Spain has the oldest van fleet (13.0 years), adopted intently by Italy (12.6 years).
- Diesel-powered mild industrial autos are dominant in all EU nations aside from Greece. Nearly 90% of the EU van fleet runs on diesel, simply 0.3% of vans within the EU are battery electrical.
- Round 692,207 buses are in operation all through the European Union, virtually half of which will be present in three nations alone: Poland, Italy and France.
- The common age of buses on EU roads is 11.7 years. The oldest buses will be present in Greece (19.9 years), whereas the most recent ones are in Austria (4.8 years).
- Diesel buses nonetheless account for 94.5% the EU fleet, with solely 0.6% being battery electrical.
SOURCE: ACEA
