Emissions

The Council of the European Union on May 13, 2024, formally adopted the regulation on CO2 emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles, amending and strengthening the existing EU rules.

In the article “Strong economic incentives of ship scrubbers promoting pollution”, published in Nature Sustainability, researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, show that discharge from ships with so-called scrubbers cause great damage to the Baltic Sea.

In line with the EU’s climate objectives for 2030 and beyond, the Council and Parliament maintained the targets set by the Commission in its proposal for 2030 (45%), 2035 (65%), and 2040 (90%), in addition to the 2025 reduction target of 15%. These targets will apply to heavy trucks over 7.5t and co...

By 2030, RRPS aims at cutting greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 35 percent compared to the 2019 level through the use of more sustainable technologies. Looking at engine production, quite an important step deals with the production of key mtu engine series – namely, the 2000 and 4000 ones – ready fo...

We’re going to publish on Diesel International 4/2020 (available in August) a long overview about the SCR for European truck manufacturers (that’s still available on the Italian DIESEL May issue). It’s a way to understand what will happen in the engine room of the yachts. SCR will ...

Geotab, a company operating in the field of IoT, connected and electric vehicles (here’s a previous post about a solution to measure battery degradation), conducted a research with the aim of measuring the impact of electrification on CO2 emissions. According to this analysis, 8 percent of fossil fu...