COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS The European Green Deal indicates that aiming to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, a 90% reduction in transport emissions is needed by promoting multimodal transport, increasing the production of alternative fuels, and encouraging the use of cleaner vehicles.
Among the possible ways to reduce the negative environmental impact of internal combustion engines, CNG and LNG clearly remain relevant; especially in those areas where alternative solutions (e.g. use of electric motors, hydrogen fuel cells) are not technologically advanced – e.g. road freight transport. Only by ensuring the complete package of measures, which comprises: fleet analysis, identification of problem areas, justification of cost-effectiveness based on the documents regulating the vision of the country’s transport and energy sectors and assessing the environmental impact of the products of incomplete combustion, it is possible to provide the arguments on widening these fuels introduction into the market.
Despite of the already used alternative fuels, the potential for wider use of these fuels is relevant. The indicated research activities of this project will help to identify the needs and opportunities related to the use of renewable energy sources and transitional alternative fuels in the Lithuanian transport sector aiming to reach zero emissions.
The report under this project should answer a number of questions, including question such as: “how realistic is to achieve GHG reductions through the development of alternative fuels, in particular electricity, hydrogen, ammonia and biogas in the transport sector?”
Project funding:
Research Council of Lithuania (RCL), Need-driven Research Projects
Project results:
The project is in progress
Period of project implementation: 2022-10-01 - 2023-04-30
Project coordinator: Kaunas University of Technology
Project partners: Klaipėda University
