Join us live in Brussels on Sept 7 📣 The ICCT, in partnership with the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU, is launching the 2026 edition of The EV Transition Check—our annual assessment of progress toward zero-emission road transport in Europe. Learn more & RSVP: theicct.org/the-ev-trans...

🇪🇺 Europe’s battery electric car registrations recorded a 24% market share in June. For H1 2026, the market share was 22%, a 5-percentage-point increase compared with the same period in 2025.🚗⚡ #ICCTMarketMonitor Learn more: theicct.org/publication/...

NEW: EV prices #Germany 🇩🇪 have decreased by 18%, while model availability has increased fourfold. The ICCT and @fraunhoferisi.bsky.social analyzed price trends in the EU’s largest car market from 2020 to 2025. Our new study is based on over 100,000 vehicle data points across six market segments.

New study: Expanding EU carbon pricing to international flights could generate billions annually, with little risk of shifting emissions outside Europe. ✈️ 📣 The ICCT has quantified revenues and carbon leakage across 10 potential policy designs, ahead of the EU Commission's upcoming #ETS review.

The EU’s Clean Vehicle Directive (#CVD) is accelerating the transition to zero-emission bus fleets in Europe—with the next phase requiring up to 32.5% zero-emission urban buses by 2030. 🚌🔋 Read the country-by-country breakdown in our latest market monitor: theicct.org/publication/...

These discrepancies have meant that, over the past years, actual CO2 emissions have been substantially higher than those officially reported. Between 2018 and 2023, official average CO2 values for new cars fell by 28%, while real-world emissions declined by only 15%.

The gap is not only a plug-in hybrid problem. 🔴 The divergence is also stark for combustion engine cars, including full and mild hybrids: real-world emissions exceed official values by 19%.

🚨NEW REPORT: Plug-in hybrids in Europe emit 5x more CO2 than officially reported. The gap between real-world and official CO2 emissions of cars is widening. And for plug-in hybrids, the gap is remarkably high: - 2021 plug-in hybrid vehicles: 265% - 2023 plug-in hybrid vehicles: 400%.

Good news from London: Today, the IMO formally adopted a new Emission Control Area in the North-East Atlantic—the largest #ECA in the world to date. This is a milestone for reducing ship pollution in Europe and the Arctic. 🌊📣 Full ICCT press release: theicct.org/pr-imo-adopt... @imohq.bsky.social

🚢 Today, ICCT Fuels Program Lead Chelsea Baldino spoke at #ISWGGHG21 in London on why global safeguards against indirect land-use change must be part of the International Maritime Organization's Net-Zero Framework—or crop-based marine biofuels could drive up emissions. ⚠️ 📣 @imohq.bsky.social

In Poland 🇵🇱, the same exemption reduces the TCO gap for regional trucks from 17.7% to 7.4%, and for long-haul trucks from 33.6% to 21.2%. With maximum CO₂ charges, model year 2030 long-haul electric trucks could be 10.7% cheaper than diesel.

In France 🇫🇷 a 100% toll exemption makes model year 2026 electric regional trucks 3.7% cheaper than diesel, and long-haul trucks 4.9% cheaper. When combined with maximum CO₂ charges, the benefits grow: Model year 2030 electric long-haul trucks have a 24.5% lower TCO than diesel in France.

These fuels currently cost 4–10 times more than fossil kerosene—which the EU Commission seeks to address by exploring revenue certainty mechanisms. But Member States don’t have to wait. Recent ICCT analysis assesses how existing policy levers can already help bring down costs. 💰️

Road transport is a major source of air pollution in European cities. 🚗💨 The European Parliament has now an opportunity to improve this with the #RoadworthinessPackage revision. It can make remote sensing mandatory as proposed by the European Commission. 👉 theicct.org/icct-comment...

🚐 🚌 Some segments show closer alignment. By end of 2025, ZE shares for medium trucks & vans were nearly identical: 22% in China and 21% in the EU. For urban buses, China has maintained ~100% ZE since 2021, while the EU increased rapidly from under 25% in 2023 to 58% in 2025.

Trucks show the largest difference. 🚛The EU reached a 2.7% ZE share in Q4 2025. China's ZE share rose from 6% in 2023 to 29% in 2025, supported by decreases in vehicle prices, widening diesel, LNG and electricity cost differences, and policies targeting industrial sectors like steel, power & cement.

🚨Don’t miss our webinar on how to close the cost gap between #SAF and fossil kerosene in the EU—there’s still time to register! The session will present new research, explore policy recommendations for Member States, and include a Q&A with ICCT experts. 🔗 Sign up now: theicct.org/event/closin...

Join us for an upcoming webinar on closing the cost gap between sustainable aviation fuels and fossil kerosene in the European Union! 🗓️ 4 March 🕐 4pm CET 🔗 Registration is open: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

⚡🇪🇺 Europe’s largest car markets continued their upward trend in electric vehicle registrations in January. 🇫🇷 France recorded the highest BEV market share among the five largest markets, reaching more than 28%. Learn more on Europe's EV market at #ICCTMarketMonitor 🔗 theicct.org/publication/...

🚗 Our European car market monitor is now available. In 2025, BEVs reached a 19% market share. 🏭 European car manufacturers’ pools average CO₂ emissions 97g CO₂/km, 4 grams from their next target. 👉 theicct.org/publication/...

Good news: The EU plans to phase out soy biofuels by 2030 🇪🇺 📣 The European Commission proposed that soy-based biofuels no longer count toward EU renewable energy targets. These biofuels would be fully phased out by 2030, and Member States would have the option to act sooner.

Battery electric vehicles (#BEVs) remain the single most important tool for car manufacturers to reduce CO2 emissions. ✅ In 2024, 9 out of 10 major manufacturer pools relied on BEVs, and to a lesser extent plug-in hybrids, to meet their CO2 targets.

2025 was a pivotal year for EU climate and energy policy, including in the transport sector. ICCT Research Lead Jan Dornoff spoke to Handelsblatt for their Green & Energy Podcast about what the EU’s draft amendment to CO₂ standards for cars and vans could mean for Europe’s climate ambitions. 🚗🇪🇺

EV smart charging can support electrification efforts across Europe. To fully unlock its potential, Europe could update its strategy. Our latest analysis highlights key considerations to enable this in the upcoming @ec.europa.eu Electrification Action Plan. 🔗 theicct.org/smart-policy...

Daimler is leading Europe’s zero-emission #truck race with over 1,000 sales in Q1–Q3 2025, a threefold increase from the same period last year. The eActros made up 90% of sales. Overall, ZE trucks made up 5% of Mercedes’ heavy truck sales, while Renault Trucks and Volvo Trucks stood at 2.4% each.

2025 marked 10 years since #Dieselgate, when ICCT analysis found diesel passenger cars emitted up to 35x the legal limits of NOx in real-world driving. ICCT produced a graphic novel to understand how many high-emitting diesel vehicles remain on roads worldwide. 🔗 theicct.org/dieselgate-e...

What can we learn from EV take-up in Nordic countries? 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮 Our market spotlight zeroes in on Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, and identifies policy incentives that encourage EV uptake, such as tax breaks and benefits for businesses. Read more: theicct.org/publication/...

🚗⚡ Europe’s electric vehicle market is closing the year strong despite ongoing uncertainty around the European CO2 standards review. Battery electric vehicles reached a 23% market share of new registrations in Europe. #MarketMonitor

The @ec.europa.eu proposed revisions to the CO2 standards for cars represent a paradigm change in climate policy for Europe. 📈💨By turning away from the 2035 100% CO2 reduction target, the proposal could add about 1 gigaton of tailpipe CO2 emissions between 2028 and 2050.

The @ec.europa.eu has proposed a critical change to the CO2 standards: a flexibility to offset emissions through renewable fuels credits. But what exactly are renewable fuels, and why could this provision pose a serious risk? Read more: theicct.org/eu-renewable...