The EU’s directive on 'green procurement' of public service vehicles has been approved.
It commits any authority or body buying vehicles for public transport contacts ‘to take into account lifetime energy and environmental impacts, including energy consumption and emissions of CO2 and of certain pollutants’. How enforceable the directive proves to be may depend on whether NGOs can monitor the decisions of local public transport operators.
But going back on the 2035 zero-emissions target and deploying no industrial strategy could instead see loss of 1 million auto jobs.
A new study models the impact of EU electric vehicle leadership and ambitious policies on investment and jobs.
In many markets European carmakers are falling behind Chinese EV manufacturers as they have little to offer to aspiring drivers in the Global South ri...