[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yesterday the European Parliament adopted with a clear majority the roadworthiness package, a set of measures to toughen up vehicle checks and to widen their scope. The three directives that constitute the roadworthiness package concern periodic roadworthiness tests, technical roadside inspections for commercial vehicles and...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Council today adopted a regulation on the 2020 reduction of CO2 emissions from new passenger cars. The new regulation defines the terms and conditions for car manufacturers for reaching the 2020 target for CO2 emissions (95g CO2/km) from new passenger cars. A limited one-year...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Europe's premier motor show revs its engines this week, so expect the usual swagger from an industry that knows all about marketing hype. Perhaps there is more cause for celebration than usual at this year's Geneva Motor Show, given that recent data has pointed to a...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]MEPs debated an agreement with the Council on cutting CO2 emissions for new passenger cars by 2020 on Monday 24 February and vote on it today. This is important as one fifth of all CO2 emissions in Europe comes from cars, while emissions from road transport...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Imagine that you are driving along, and a message is projected on your windscreen, warning you of an accident that has just happened around the next corner. This could soon be a reality thanks to new European standards. Connected cars, able to communicate with each...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From 2015, all new cars sold in the EU should be able to dial emergency services when they are involved in a serious accident, under new rules to be voted on by the internal market committee on 11 February. How it will work: a damaged car...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Council adopted today a regulation amending regulation (EU) No 510/2011 to define the modalitites for reaching the 2020 target to reduce CO2 emissions from new light commercial vehicles (PE-CONS 106/13, 106/13 COR1, 5584/14 ADD 1). From 2020, a target of 147 g CO2/Km is set...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Since Fiat was founded in 1899, a community of suppliers, known in Italian as Fiat’s indotto, have grown up in Turin around the industrial group. But a question mark now hangs over this network following Fiat’s merger with Chrysler and the mooted relocation of some of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How fortunes vary. Motor City is bankrupt. But the motor industry, unveiling its hottest products at Detroit’s auto show last week, looks increasingly flush. China, now the world’s biggest auto market, posted stronger than expected growth for 2013 – a 14 per cent rise in...