CO2 standards and labels for heavy duty vehicles: a comparative analysis of design options
The European Commission is currently preparing a strategy to address the CO2 emissions from HDVs and is developing a simulation tool to measure their CO2 emissions in addition. It is therefore quite likely that the strategy will include a CO2 standard or label for HDVs. However, due to the complexity of the HDV market, designing a standard (or label) would be highly complex as well and could be operationalised in many different ways (e.g. for the whole vehicle, for one or multiple components, etc.). To inform policy makers in the EU and abroad, this study explores the main advantages and disadvantages of different design options. The study is based on literature and on eleven in-depth interviews with experts, policy makers, manufacturers and NGOs. This report focusses on five design options that have been implemented in other countries and/or are of particular interest to EU policy makers. Each design option was assessed on its effectiveness, market impacts, technical feasibility, and on its legislative impacts. The results from this analysis show that there is no superior design option scoring highest on all above-mentioned criteria. A standard or label for the whole vehicle has the largest benefits in terms of the flexibility that is provided to integrated Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs): they can implement the technologies with the lowest marginal abatements costs, which in turn is argued to result in the lowest end-user costs. It has the potential to cover the full emission reduction potential of HDVs with an additional incentive to optimise the interactions between components (assuming that the simulation tool is well-designed).
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Corporate Authors:
CE Delft
Delft, -
Authors:
- Aarnink, S
- Schroten, A
- van Essen, H
- Publication Date: 2013-11
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 95p + appendices
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air quality management; Environment; Greenhouse gases; Heavy vehicles; Mathematical models; Standardization; Vehicle design
- Geographic Terms: Europe
- ATRI Terms: Carbon dioxide equivalent; Emissions control; Environment; Heavy vehicle; Modelling; Standardization; Vehicle design
- Subject Areas: Environment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01522057
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ATRI
- Created Date: Apr 15 2014 10:53AM