Haulage

Company teams up with Europcar to provide the range-extended electric cars across Europe by 2012

Member states will be able to pass the bill for air and noise pollution costs onto hauliers from later this year

Plans to tax fuels by energy produced welcomed by green groups, but will require backing of all member states to become law

New scoping paper reveals government supports aviation expansion, but "not at any price"

Consultation claims increasing maximum length of lorries would cut annual carbon output by 100,000 tonnes

Transport roadmap plans to replace conventional fuel with low carbon alternatives and shift road journeys to rail and waterways

Green Transport Network to help small and medium sized transport firms cut 17 million tonnes of CO2 per year

Study finds extending the length of lorries could cut 3.2 million tonnes of CO2 from UK's logistics sector each year

But green groups argue mandatory standards have been watered down by intense industry lobbying

Research body launches £40m project to improve the efficiency of some of the world's largest vehicles