ACEA study says 100-fold increase needed in EU EV truck fleet to meet targets
By Jim Gibbins - 1st February 2021
Belgium – A new study from the Brussels-based European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) shows there are currently 6.2 million medium and heavy commercial vehicles on the EU’s roads, the average age of which is 13 years and that almost 98% of all these trucks run on diesel; this is according to the 2021 ‘Vehicles in Use’ report, published in January 2021. Only 2,300 – or 0.04% of the total fleet – are zero-emission trucks.
European truck makers estimate around 200,000 zero-emission trucks will have to be in operation by 2030 to meet the CO2 targets for heavy-duty trucks. Based on ACEA’s new data, this would require a staggering 100-fold increase in less than 10 years. In its recently-published Mobility Strategy, however, the European Commission laid out the objective to have some 80,000 zero-emission trucks on the road by 2030, which in fact falls far short of what is required by the CO2 regulation (-30% emissions).
