cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54754936
Leaders from across Europe’s electric car industry on Wednesday urged the European Commission to stick to its 2035 zero-emission target for new cars, warning that any retreat would undermine investment and widen the bloc’s gap with China.
Electric car industry wants more electric cars. Not a huge surprise. Good point though, investments have been made on the background of the EU not backing out.
It’s a bit of a sad state of Europes electric car manufacturering that the only two mentioned manufacturers are Volvo/Polestar, both wholly owned by Chinese Geely, with production in China.
The ChargeUp organisation consists of charging infrastructure providers (including gas station companies like CircleK, BP, Total). The only manufacturer is (American) Tesla, presumably because of their charging infrastructure division. https://www.chargeupeurope.eu/membership
EmobilityEurope organization is mostly driver-associations and supply chain companies. The actual manufacturers are:
- Lucid (American)
- GM (American)
- Tesla (American)
- Polestar (Chinese/Swedish)
- NIO (Chinese)
- Rivian (American)
- Smart (initially German, currently Chinese)
- Volvo (Chinese/Swedish)
https://www.emobilityeurope.org/our-members/
So not a single European (electric) car manufacturer is involved