Joint letter on the Greening Corporate Fleets Initiative
ePURE is among several associations in the sustainable mobility sector that have co-signed a joint letter to European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism Apostolos Tzitzikostas, calling for a more technology-open approach to the Greening of Corporate Fleets initiative.
"We are concerned to learn that the “Greening of Corporate Fleet” initiative will now take the form of a legislative proposal," the letter states. "We understand that the public consultation run by your Services in DG MOVE during the first half of this year, which many of the Network members participated in, produced inconclusive results as to the need for a regulatory intervention. There is no clearly identified market failure, nor a proven case that regulation will accelerate greening.
"In fact, we believe that a regulatory proposal as promoted by some stakeholders in Brussels – via mandatory BEV purchase targets for corporate fleets – is likely to slow greening and is in contradiction with the market-driven principles of the EU and the technology neutral approach for vehicles that President von der Leyen set out very clearly in her Political Guidelines in July of this year. Such mandates implicitly limit zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) to purely battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and vehicles with hydrogen fuel cells (FCVs). Instead, the Greening of Corporate Fleets initiative should be guided by technology neutrality. It should also recognise the role of RED-compliant CO2 neutral fuels in view of the planned targeted amendment of the CO2 regulation for passenger cars and vans."
