April 14, 2024. Westport Fuel Systems Inc. welcomes the recent agreement between European legislators regarding the lowering of CO2 emissions in the European Union’s (EU) heavy-duty road transport sector. The regulatory agreement sets forth revised corporate CO2 emissions reduction targets for new original equipment manufacturers’ (OEM) heavy-duty vehicles at 45 percent by 2030, 65 percent by 2035, and 90 percent by 2040 as compared to a 2019 baseline, while ensuring that existing innovative technologies are preserved. These emissions reduction targets maintain a degree of flexibility for OEMs to comply using a portfolio of CO2 reduction solutions including low carbon fuels, hydrogen combustion, fuel cell, and battery electric technologies. Zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) are a central element of these CO2 regulations, and Westport’s H2 HPDI fuel system solution is compatible with the ZEV threshold of 3gCO2/ton-km.
“As a key supplier of hydrogen and other alternative fuel system solutions, we are encouraged by the EU’s revised CO2 emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles,” said Dan Sceli, Chief Executive Officer of Westport Fuel Systems. “These new standards reflect ambitious decarbonization targets that can be achieved by utilizing a blend of new and current vehicle and fuel system technologies such as those in Westport’s portfolio while also clearing a path to encourage future investment in the best and most affordable solutions to decarbonize heavy-duty transport.”
“Our current products and innovative technologies support long-term decarbonization by efficiently reducing CO2 emissions across different applications, delivering both environmental benefits and cost-effectiveness,” said Scott Baker, Vice President of Global Engineering for Westport Fuel Systems. “Advanced products, such as our liquefied natural gas (LNG) HPDI fuel system on the road today, used with increasing shares of biomethane have in the past years and will in the coming decades continue to deliver growing CO2 reductions to the heavy-duty vehicle sector in Europe and will be supplemented with an expanding range of hydrogen products.”
