The revision of the EU's Alternative Fuels Infrastructure law is the opportunity to create an EU-wide single recharging market. Market players — be it automotive manufacturers, recharge point operators or customers — need this common single market to benefit from the right conditions to play their part in the mass adoption of zero emission road transport.
In this letter, T&E, the auto industry association ACEA, the IndustriALL manufacturing trade union, and groups representing the whole e-mobility sector say this can only be achieved through an EU regulation.
But the car lobby is demanding that the EU scrap rules that would better reflect PHEV pollution.
New EU data shows the importance of the planned correction of the 'utility factor' for plug-in hybrids.