The European Council of environment ministers has held a policy debate ondraft regulations for CO2 emissions from cars and appears to favour the introduction of a 95 g/km average target by 2020.
Most of the debate, however, focused on aspects of the draft regulation due to come into force in 2012 with a 120gkm limit. Many delegates would still like to see an introduction date of 2015, while there is also disagreement on the parameter to be used set targets for different types of vehicles.

Toyota has developed a new fuel cell hybrid vehicle that travels more than double the distance of its predecessor model, increasing the maximum cruising range from 205 miles to 515 miles.
Limited cruising ranges of previous fuel cell systems presented obstacles to widespread fuel cell vehicle use but the ‘Toyota FCHV-adv’ (fuel cell hybrid vehicle-advanced) improves the cruising range with its newly designed high-performance Toyota FC Stack.