Regulations for Affordable Electric Vehicles: an international comparison

How do regulations affect the affordability of electric vehicles? What type of new/different regulations are needed to bring to the market more affordable EVs?

The last Acte of Gerpisa (n°43) focuses on these questions from the the perspective of the European Single Market where small affordable EVs are lacking and EV sales are stagnating. It explores the regulatory causes that have led to the disappearance of city cars in Europe. It looks at the cases of ‘kei cars’ in Japan and electric mini-vehicles in China to understand how these countries have been able to preserve/develop this segment and with what effects in terms of decarbonisation of transport, access to mobility and industrial competitiveness.
Based on these insights, it proposes five key measures to promote the production and sale of small electric vehicles manufactured in Europe:

• the introduction of a new vehicle category based on the kei cars model ;

• modifying CO2 regulations to favour such vehicles and achieve more effective decarbonisation;

• the introduction of a financial framework to support the take-off of their production;

• the introduction of a European Ecoscore based on the French model to provide a flexible policy tool of financial and non-financial incentives for the spread of these vehicles;

• the proposal for a European toolbox based on this new category of vehicle, setting out a series of measures that would help States, regions and cities to improve their mobility systems.

The report will be first presented by Tommaso Pardi, Marc Alochet and Samuel Klebaner.
It will be then discussed from an international perspective by Bruce Belzowski, from the US point of view, Wei Zhao, from the China point of view, and Stephane Heim, from the Japan point of view.

The international seminar will take place on-line:
https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/99620404763?pwd=faqUGaSdXbaMG5IvDkbGYr5FzixKTj.1
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