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As one should expect from leading car manufacturers Audi and Mercedes, their newest models are making headway into the top of most fuel efficient petrol and diesel vehicles available.

To be a stakeholder platform for the application of biofuels for transport, that is what the Biofuel Cities European Partnership planned to become in its first year of existence. And with over a thousand participants registered, they are celebrating a happy first birthday.

The local authorities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam have set up a National Hydrogen Coalition, which will include companies, knowledge institutes, civil society organisations and governments, working together towards the large-scale application of hydrogen.

A Dutch consortium expects that by the year 2025 1.8 million cars (out of seven million) on the Dutch roads will be powered by electricity. To help make this happen, it is developing a smart electricity distribution system and it will invest EUR 100M in the purchase of two hundred electric vehicles.

Air pollution in London is worse than in any other UK city and among the worst in Europe. Attempts to address the problem in recent years have undoubtedly brought about a significant improvement (...). The success of this initiative in London is in contrast to the situation in Amsterdam (...). There, a similar proposal to ban from the city cars produced before 1992 has been dropped after coming up against strong opposition from the Minister of Transport, and a definitive plan of action is yet to be adopted.