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Article

7 Feb 2007

Author:
Stephen Mulvey, BBC News

EU car CO2 fight only beginning

The unveiling of the European Commission's plan to cut CO2 emissions from cars opens a new phase of a lobbying war between the motor industry and environmentalists... [Automakers] are now only being asked to reach emissions of 130g/km... In fact, some European carmakers are already making rapid progress towards such a goal. Fiat has already met a target voluntarily adopted by the industry... Citroen [part of PSA Peugeot Citroen] and...Renault, are on track to meet this voluntary target too and Ford and Peugeot are not far off...Volkswagen is among the companies that has made least progress. Among the major European manufacturers only Audi [part of VW], Volvo [part of Ford] and BMW are doing worse, according to a study published last year by the pressure group Transport and Environment.