The fleet transition – the intersection between corporate targets and regulation – a France Case Study

Abstract : As the European Commission has at last opened in February its public consultation on a corporate fleet mandate in Europe, a draft bill has simultaneously been proposed in France to leverage the greening quotas of the Loi d'Orientation des Mobilités (LOM) and make it binding for businesses to renew their fleet with an increasing percentage of EVs over the years, to reach 80% in 2030 and 95% in 2032. In spite of the now widespread acknowledgement that the future of road transport is electric, these regulatory trends do not meet consensus. With several regulations in place on the supply side, namely the CO2 emission performance standards for cars and vans and for heavy-duty vehicles, and the CAFE norms applying on OEMs, and while a correct implementation of the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) will ramp up a consistent roll out of publicly accessible charging and refuelling infrastructure across the EU, it is high time for action on the demand side, or all the system could collapse.