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Nissan intends to CO2 pool with BYD across the EU during 2025 to meet more challenging emissions targets

  • Writer: Matthias Schmidt
    Matthias Schmidt
  • Oct 20
  • 2 min read

Close-up of a teal Nissan Leaf with an illuminated logo and sleek taillight. The word "LEAF" is embossed on the black trim.

Nissan becomes the latest Japanese OEM that intends to form a joint pool with another manufacturer in order to meet 2025 EU fleet emission targets during 2025 following the likes of Toyota, Suzuki, Mazda and Subaru that have already intended their intent to pool with Tesla. CO2 targets are sharpened by 15% during 2025 over the previous half decade period, with an average fleet weight-based target of 93.6g/km (WLTP) being the goal up to the end of 2029 although adjustment mechanisms dilute that somewhat, alongside the first three years now being measured as a three year average, which was agreed on as part of the first automotive dialogue between stakeholders and the EU earlier this year.

Text table listing open EU pool applications under EU regulation. Nissan Automotive Europe and BYD

Nissan traditionally pools with Allinace partner Renault but the fact that they intend to join their Chinese peers during 2025 likely identifies that Renault don’t have enough in their emissions backpack to support the emissions deadweight of Nissan this time which doesn’t see its full LEAF rollout until 2026 and continues to show Japanese OEMs struggling to meet new EU standards with Toyota and other Japanese peers pooling with Tesla. KBA data shows that during the opening 9-months of 2025 Nissan's average German CO2 fleet emissions remained stubbornly high at 133.4g/km compared to BYD's average of just 7.5g/km. The Micra based on Renault's R5 model and manufactured in the same facility in Northern France, will see the first models arrive from Q4 2024. BYD are set to benefit from regulatory credits for the first time in 2025 thanks to its EU plug-in volumes set to achieve over 100,000 units this year according to our own forecasts, split equally between BEVs and PHEVs.


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Source: Schmidt Automotive Research 




*Western Europe 18 Markets: EU Member States prior to the 2004 enlargement plus EFTA markets Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, plus UK

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