Regulatory framework for lighter and more fluidly designed cars

1.4.2021

Question for written answer  E-001807/2021
to the Commission
Rule 138
Benoît Lutgen (PPE), Pascal Arimont (PPE)

In Europe, motorway speed limits are 120 or 130 km/h.

However, the mass, power and top speeds of new vehicles sold in Europe are still increasing significantly.

The LISA Car (Light and Safe Car) project addresses two priorities for the future: reducing both emissions and the number of road accident fatalities.

Achieving these objectives is conditional on one thing in particular: reducing the mass, power and top speeds of cars and the aggressiveness of their front-end design, four factors that have a negative impact on the fuel consumption (and therefore emissions) of vehicles and on the degree of danger they pose.

• 1.Does the Commission endorse the environmental and road safety objective of revising future passenger car standards to make the vehicles in question lighter, sensibly powerful and more fluidly designed?
• 2.Does it intend to introduce a regulatory framework or develop existing standards in order to limit the mass, power, speed and frontal area of vehicles?