Tribune. On July 14, the European Commission announced a series of legislative measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including stopping the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles within the Union in 2035.
This decision implies a massive renewal of the vehicle fleet towards low-emission engines. We, elected representatives of all political sensitivities, environmental associations and organizations, economic players in mobility, call not to reproduce the mistakes of the past, on a European or national scale, by abandoning or slowing down economic and ecological alternatives to diesel and to gasoline. These are now mature sectors, providing jobs, good for the climate, air quality and health, the portfolio of households and businesses.
We call for low-emission engines using an energy “mix”: electrical energy, (bio) gas and hydrogen. Let us collectively choose technological neutrality and put aside chimeras and the creation of new monopolies: the end of gasoline and diesel vehicles cannot be translated by the replacement of one energy monopoly by another.
Bias
In recent months, the European Commission and France have focused on electrical and hydrogen solutions. It is a laudable intention, but it remains a prejudice nonetheless. It results in European regulations which, by measuring only CO emissions2 at the exhaust outlet, penalizes (bio) vehicle natural gas (CNG). In France, even though many communities and transporters are increasingly equipping themselves with organic NGV vehicles, national incentive measures remain largely behind compared to (late) support measures for electricity and electricity. hydrogen from manufacturers, distributors, and users.
However, it is a renewable energy, produced locally from sewage sludge, the methanization of food waste and livestock effluents. Bio NGV reduces CO emissions by 80%2 compared to diesel, up to 95% fine particle emissions, 40 to 64% nitrogen oxide emissions, and 50% noise pollution.
In 2019, the IFP Energies nouvelles study (formerly the French Petroleum Institute) demonstrated that the environmental performance of organic NGV vehicles was superior to any other solution, based on a life cycle analysis, that is to say the analysis of greenhouse gases. greenhouse emitted from production to vehicle recycling, including the production of the fuel consumed.
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