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NEW: Half of new EU city buses were zero-emission in 2024, making city buses one of the early success stories of the European Green Deal.
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T&E (🦋 find us @transportenvironment.org)
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T&E (🦋 find us @transportenvironment.org)
@transenv
Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport and energy. Fighting for an affordable zero-emission transport system that benefits both people and the planet.
- Today 60% of new cars are registered by companies, most of which are large corporations. The EU should set a target for 100% of new cars in company fleets to be electric by 2030 as part of the ongoing public consultation on the topic. 🧵
00:00 - BREAKING: Plug-in hybrids in new emissions scandal as tests show higher pollution than claimed Three of the most popular plug-ins in 2020 all emitted more CO2 when tested in the real world – even when starting with a full battery transenv.eu/38XyjTH
- BREAKING: The European Parliament has voted to set a 2035 deadline for zero-emissions cars and vans👏 It's huge step forward for climate action, air quality and the affordability of electric vehicles.
- BREAKING: Cars powered by synthetic fuel emit as much poisonous NOx as fossil fuel engines, new emissions testing shows. E-fuels, which have been touted by the fossil fuel industry as a way to prolong the life of the internal combustion engine, will not alleviate air pollution.
- Transport is the climate 'bad boy' of the EU economy - the only sector to grow its emissions since 1990 @TimmermansEU @AdinaValean, here's our vision for how the #EUGreenDeal can turn that around: transenv.eu/EUGreenDeal
00:00 - Bike use 🚴🏽♀️ in Paris and its suburbs is up 54% - in one year alone. 840,000 bike journeys per day. Car trips are down 5% since 2010 💨 Partly, thanks to the building of a bike lane network by @Anne_Hidalgo's Plan Vélo. 👏👏👏 forbes.com/sites/jeffmcma…
- BREAKING: Parisians have voted to increase parking rates for heavier vehicles, signaling that the tide is turning against huge SUVs in our cities. It's time for other European cities to ask whether large SUVs have a place on their streets.
- BREAKING: Electric cars will be cheaper than petrol cars in ALL segments by 2027, finds @BloombergNEF study for T&E 2025: Light vans 2026: Sedans 2026: SUVs 2026: Heavy vans 2027: Small cars 👉 transenv.eu/EV-price-parity Time to #NameTheDate for ending new fossil-fuel car sales!
- NEW: Europe wastes land the size of Ireland on crops for biofuels. If we ditched #biofuels, we could use that area of land to: 🌽Feed 120mn people a day 🌻Create carbon sinks that thrive with biodiversity by returning it to nature ☀️Generate solar & wind energy
- NEW: Battery-electric is now the most popular powertrain for new city buses in the EU. Data for 2023 shows electric buses reached 36% of new city bus sales, overtaking diesel as the main bus powertrain type in the EU for the first time. 🧵
- What are the most frequented flight routes in Europe? A whopping 43 flights between London and Amsterdam departed every day last year, making it the second-busiest route in Europe despite a direct 4-hour train alternative. It’s time to rethink how we travel in Europe.
- BREAKING: 10 years of EU's failed biofuels policy has trashed the planet 🌴Forests the size of the Netherlands wiped out 🦧An estimated 10% of the world’s orangutan habitats destroyed 💨Up to 3x more CO2 emissions than the fossil diesel it replaced
- NEW: The burning of animal fat biofuels is set to triple by 2030🐷📈 ❌But there is not enough to scale it up sustainably. ✈️The growing use of animal fat to power planes is raising concerns over the availability of ‘waste’ biofuels. Read the study➡️ transportenvironment.org/discover/pigs-…
