{"id":177618,"date":"2025-06-12T05:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177618\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T05:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:50:12","slug":"civil-society-calls-on-the-eu-to-limit-new-car-dimensions-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177618\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil society calls on the EU to limit new car dimensions by\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 civil society organisations have called on the European Commission to initiate work on a legislative proposal to set limits on the dimensions of new passenger cars by 2035 (particularly their width, and bonnet height), and to commit to publishing this proposal by July 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The letter was published the same day a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportenvironment.org\/articles\/ever-higher-the-rise-of-bonnet-height-and-the-case-to-cap-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T&amp;E report<\/a> revealed\u00a0that the average bonnet height of newly-sold cars in Europe\u00a0is increasing by half a centimetre a year.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, download the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 30 civil society organisations have called on the European Commission to initiate work on a legislative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[10281,73304,3029,69979,64111,2000,299,5187,1699,60228,73303,6584,5549,73306,73305],"class_list":{"0":"post-177618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-action","9":"tag-bonnet","10":"tag-carmakers","11":"tag-consequences","12":"tag-continue","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-height","18":"tag-increasing","19":"tag-negative","20":"tag-safety","21":"tag-significant","22":"tag-width"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114668832268820750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}