With societies months-long in confinements and factories shut, the COVID-19 pandemic has gravely impacted economies across Europe and beyond. 2020 was touted as the year of the electric car in Europe and early 2020 showed record plug-in sales. But has the COVID-19 crisis killed off the electric car momentum that was finally gaining pace in response to EU emissions regulations? In this report T&E analyses investments in European electric vehicle and battery production by key OEMs, joint consortia and governments in 2019.

L’appello delle principali associazioni ambientaliste al governo italiano: L'unico tipo di sostegno pubblico accettabile è quello che accelera l'adozione di soluzioni a emissioni zero per i trasporti pubblici e privati e che sostiene la mobilità attiva, il cui ruolo, vista la necessità di distanziamento fisico, diventa nelle città ancora più centrale.

With pressure mounting on EU and national policy-makers to do much more to reverse the trend in growing transport carbon emissions to reach climate neutral economy before 2050, many governments have announced plans to ban the sales of new fossil cars - petrols, diesels and gas - in the coming decades. But the question of the compatibility of such measures with EU single-market rules has recently come to the fore. T&E has commissioned the legal consultancy Milieu to look into the feasibility of such national bans and under what conditions they would be possible.

A new YouGov poll published by the NGO campaign #TrueCostOfUber finds that the people most exposed to the ride-sharing service Uber, those living in the big metropoles where the corporation has extensive operations, have a more negative perception of the company’s impact on pollution. A briefing on the survey results and the survey data for the each of the markets can be downloaded below.