Brussels, 28/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - After new private cars, it will be new commercial vans that must become “greener”. The European Commission suggests that average CO2 emissions from the European fleet of light commercial vehicles (unladen weight below 2.61 tonnes and able to carry 3.5 tonnes of goods) must gradually be brought down to 175 g/km per vehicle between 2014 and 2016, and to 135 gm/km by 2020 (compared with 203 gm/km in 2007).
On Wednesday 28 October, as it presented its...