BRUSSELS - The European Union has reached a tentative agreement on the first specific EU standards for trucks, to get polluting CO2 levels down. Tuesday’s agreement among negotiators from the European Parliament and member states says that such emissions will have to be 30 per cent down by 2030 compared with today’s levels. Heavy trucks carry over two-thirds of freight across the bloc. The EU also has such standards for cars and light vans. The ACEA producer’s association called for refuelling infrastructures to cope with alternative power sources.

Source: thestar February 19, 2019 08:37 UTC