与汽车和货车不同，尽管美国，中国，日本和加拿大，欧盟目前迄今为止迄今为止对卡车二氧化碳排放无限制。2017年欧洲委员会建议的2019年1月1日生效的新卡车的二氧化碳排放量和燃料消耗的新衡量和报告要求，帮助为欧洲第一家卡车二氧化碳排放限制铺平道路。

在二氧化碳立法下，与2019年相比，所有新卡车必须较15％的二氧化碳排放量，到2019年，虽然该目标在2022年审查其电气，杂交和氢气的审查，但到2030年的排放量必须降低至少30％。车辆弥补至少2％的新销售将具有较少的CO2目标。

T&E’s cleaner trucks manager Stef Cornelis said: ‘This is an important step in the right direction, though we need to be clear the new targets are far from enough to meet the Paris climate goals, and they will need to be made a lot more ambitious when they are reviewed in 2022. Nonetheless, this is a pivotal moment for the truck industry in Europe – after 20 years of very little progress on fuel-efficiency, and record fines for cartel activity to fix prices and slow down emissions reductions, we finally have legislation that kick-starts road haulage’s shift away from fossil-fuel technology.’

Trucks, buses and coaches represent around 5% of all vehicles on the road in Europe but are responsible for around a quarter of road transport’s greenhouse gas emissions (6% of the EU’s total CO2 emissions), a share the Commission said would grow rapidly without obligatory limits.