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 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...