Contents -- Preface -- Forord -- Summary -- 1. Background, task and approach -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Tasks -- 1.3 Approach -- 2. Why environmentally-friendly vehicles? -- 2.1 Driving Forces -- 3. Defining environmentally-friendly vehicles -- 3.1 Technologically-neutral criteria for a Low or Zero emitting Vehicle, LZV -- 3.2 Objections to technology neutral criteria -- 4. Propulsion technologies -- 4.1 LZV possibilities with combustion engine vehicles -- 4.2 LZV and electric drive -- 4.3 Environmentally- friendly Heavy Duty Vehicles -- 5. Clean Fuels and Fuel Alternatives -- 5.1 Fossil fuels -- 5.2 Renewable fuels -- 5.3 The Life Cycle Perspective - Well to Wheel -- 6.Vehicles and Environmental Product Information Schemes -- 6.1 EPIS, Eco labelling and environmental policy -- 6.2 EPIS in different countries and for different products -- 6.3 European Vehicles Environmental Product Information -- 6.4 USA Vehicles Environmental Product Information Schemes - EPIS -- 6.5 EPIS and eco-labelling of other products and services -- 7 Environmentally-friendly vehicles in the Nordic countries -- 7.1 Denmark -- 7.2 Finland -- 7.3 Iceland -- 7.4 Norway -- 7.5 Sweden -- 8. Conclusions and Recommendations -- 8.1 Technology-independent criteria -- 8.2 LZV rating - impacts on technology and size -- 8.3 Heavy Duty Vehicles -- 8.4 Experiences with environmental product information -- Sammendrag -- References.