SCANIA LEADS EU ON LOW EMISSIONS

Hot on the heels of  the announcement that Scania had won its fifth Green Truck award, the Swedish manufacturer has announced that figures from the European Commission confirm it is the best heavy vehicle maker in reducing CO₂ emissions.

Recently the EU Commission published statistics on CO₂ emissions from new trucks for each heavy vehicle manufacturer registered in the Union from July 2019 to June 2020. These values form the basis for limits in the CO₂ legislation and will be the basis for road tolls.

In the report, Scania is best in class in terms of energy efficiency and low CO₂ emissions, 4.7 per cent below the CO₂ limit set by the EU. According to Scania, he figures show it is the only heavy truck manufacturer to come in below the EU limit, most of the others are above.

Trucks, buses and coaches are responsible for about a quarter of CO₂ emissions from road transport in the EU and for around six per cent of total EU emissions. Despite some improvements in fuel consumption efficiency in recent years, these emissions are still rising, mainly due to increasing road freight traffic.

In 2019 the EU legislated on the first-ever EU-wide CO₂ emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles, and set targets for reducing the average emissions for 2025 and 2030.

According to the new rules, manufacturers must reduce CO₂ emissions from new trucks by an average of 15 per cent  from 2025 and 30 per cent  from 2030, compared with 2019 levels.

“The CO₂ figures published by the EU show that there is a clear market leader in fuel consumption – Scania. These figures are based on certified testing of components and trucks and reflect Scania’s unique and long-term work with aerodynamics and driveline,” said Henrik Wentzel, senior advisor at product planning at Scania.

“The advantage of the certified CO₂ values that the EU publishes is that everyone has to try and calculate in the same way – this is the fairest way available to compare emissions between manufacturers,” Wentzel said

Andreas Follér, head of sustainability at Scania, said the figures from the European Commission also show that Scania is on the right track in reaching even its Science Based Target – to reduce CO₂ emissions from the vehicles when in use by 20% by 2025, compared to 2015.

Scania  claims it is the only one of Europe´s heavy vehicle manufacturers that has an approved Science Based Target (SBT).

“Our ambition is to lower the climate impact in the short and medium timeframe for both SBT and EU legislation,” said Andreas Follér.

“The main difference is that EU CO₂ legislation is only covering Tank-to-Wheel (TtW) emissions, our SBTs are measured Well-to-Wheel (WtW).

“If only looking at tailpipe emissions it doesn´t matter if a truck runs on 100% HVO or 100% fossil Diesel, or if the truck runs on biogas or natural gas. But for our Science Based Target, for our customers and for the planet, this matters a lot,”  he said.