Clean Mobility
Europe urgently needs harmonised standards for electric mobility. Photo: BMW AG
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06/17/2010
The strategy identifies research, the introduction of common standards and development of infrastructures as key areas for shaping the policy framework. Concrete measures would be developed on the basis of an action plan following a technology-neutral approach. The strategy would make an important contribution to reducing CO2 emissions by 80 to 95 percent by 2050.
Further thematic priorities are global aspects such as access to raw materials, employment and market acceptance of new vehicles. The Commission would like to coordinate national electric mobility promotion programmes at European level. The strategy supports the objectives of creating smart and sustainable growth formulated in the Europe 2020 flagship initiative »Resource efficient Europe«. To underpin its activities, the Commission plans to revive the CARS 21 high-level group. A mid-term review of the strategy is pencilled in for 2014.
The Competitiveness Council welcomed the Commission’s approach in its 25 May 2010 conclusions. The key priorities identified by Economy Ministers are support through common European research resources, in particular simplified access to and use of loans from the European Investment Bank. In addition, the German, French, Portuguese and Spanish Economy Ministers endorsed a European charging system for electric vehicles in a declaration.
BDI supports efforts to create a European framework. In a position paper dated February 2010, German industry outlined opportunities and challenges of innovative power train technologies for road transport. It is a national challenge to become the leader in electric mobility, a technology of the future. This requires policy-makers to put in place the right framework conditions and incentives. At European level, it is important first and foremost to give political flanking for standardisation and certification processes, to intermesh national activities with Commission and member-state programmes, and to agree a shared approach for raw materials issues. This can also make an important contribution to reaching the German government’s national goal of putting one million electric vehicles on the road by 2020.
You can download the communication and the Council conclusions on the European strategy for clean and energy-efficient vehicles as well as the BDI position paper on innovative power train technologies, electric mobility and alternative fuels.
Clean and energy-efficient vehicles: Commission favours a technology-neutral approach
Europe urgently needs harmonised standards for electric mobility. Photo: BMW AG
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On 28 April 2010 the European Commission published a communication on the European strategy for energy-efficient vehicles.
The strategy concentrates in parallel on further development of energy-efficient combustion engines and on the use of alternative technologies in vehicles with extremely low CO2 emissions.The strategy identifies research, the introduction of common standards and development of infrastructures as key areas for shaping the policy framework. Concrete measures would be developed on the basis of an action plan following a technology-neutral approach. The strategy would make an important contribution to reducing CO2 emissions by 80 to 95 percent by 2050.
Further thematic priorities are global aspects such as access to raw materials, employment and market acceptance of new vehicles. The Commission would like to coordinate national electric mobility promotion programmes at European level. The strategy supports the objectives of creating smart and sustainable growth formulated in the Europe 2020 flagship initiative »Resource efficient Europe«. To underpin its activities, the Commission plans to revive the CARS 21 high-level group. A mid-term review of the strategy is pencilled in for 2014.
The Competitiveness Council welcomed the Commission’s approach in its 25 May 2010 conclusions. The key priorities identified by Economy Ministers are support through common European research resources, in particular simplified access to and use of loans from the European Investment Bank. In addition, the German, French, Portuguese and Spanish Economy Ministers endorsed a European charging system for electric vehicles in a declaration.
BDI supports efforts to create a European framework. In a position paper dated February 2010, German industry outlined opportunities and challenges of innovative power train technologies for road transport. It is a national challenge to become the leader in electric mobility, a technology of the future. This requires policy-makers to put in place the right framework conditions and incentives. At European level, it is important first and foremost to give political flanking for standardisation and certification processes, to intermesh national activities with Commission and member-state programmes, and to agree a shared approach for raw materials issues. This can also make an important contribution to reaching the German government’s national goal of putting one million electric vehicles on the road by 2020.
You can download the communication and the Council conclusions on the European strategy for clean and energy-efficient vehicles as well as the BDI position paper on innovative power train technologies, electric mobility and alternative fuels.