Dear Ministers and Government Representatives,
Dear President and Members of the European Parliament,
As leaders across Europe’s electric mobility value chain, we share a clear objective: securing Europe’s automotive leadership through zero-emission mobility and delivering high-quality jobs along the value chain, while strengthening energy security and resilience in an increasingly competitive world.
Electrifying road transport reduces reliance on imported fossil fuels, enables mobility powered by European energy, and strengthens Europe’s position in a rapidly shifting global landscape. It will deliver a better, cheaper drive to Europeans.
Europe must now secure a leading industrial position in the global transformation underway.
Building a competitive European battery and EV ecosystem – from batteries to charging to software. This will keep value and know-how in Europe, reduce import dependencies, and enable circular, low-carbon supply chains – future proofing our economy.
In September 2025, more than 200 CEOs urged President Ursula von der Leyen to Take Charge for Europe’s electric mobility leadership, by holding the line on the 2035 zero-emission target and matching that ambition with measures to secure industrial investment and stimulate demand.
While December’s Automotive Package introduced new flexibilities, the Regulation on CO2 standards for cars and vans still provides a central signal for electrification. We now urge you to safeguard that signal, through upholding the ambition of this proposal and delivering the overall automotive package coherently, including its demand-side measures in the Clean Corporate Vehicles Regulation.
European industry is already planning more than €150 billion in investments in electric vehicle production, battery and materials manufacturing, and charging infrastructure – with the potential to create over 400,000 new jobs by 2035 across Europe. Your decisions in the coming months will determine whether Europe competes globally and scales at speed, or falls permanently behind China and other regions.
A JOINT LETTER FROM THE ELECTRIC MOBILITY VALUE CHAIN
To sustain momentum and secure Europe’s leadership in next generation mobility technologies, we
urge you to:
- Endorse the European Commission’s proposal for a 90% 2035 emission reduction target for cars and vans, preserving its electrification ambition
- Maintain credible offsets for the remaining 10% of emissions after 2035, keeping limits on the biofuels contribution
- Ensure real-world emissions of all powertrains and fuels are accurately reflected in relevant methodologies (e.g. PHEV utility factor, biofuels)
- Maintain a strong demand push through the Corporate Clean Vehicles Regulation
- Introduce new measures to strengthen the second-hand electric vehicle market
- Keep national targets, backing-them up with fiscal support measures
- Step up Europe’s industrial policy for EV batteries and other strategic sectors
- Design and deliver ambitious, coherent and simple localisation incentives under the Industrial Accelerator Act, rewarding value chain creation
- Deliver on the Battery Booster Facility in high speed, while targeting the EU Competitiveness Fund to scaling-up batteries and other clean tech production
Coherence between the Industrial Accelerator Act, the CO2 emission standards for cars and vans and the Clean Corporate Vehicles Regulation is key to ensure consistency. Failure to deliver these policies coherently risks leaving Europe permanently behind global competitors in the race for electric vehicle leadership, weakening resilience, losing our competitive edge, and prolonging dependence on imported fossil fuels.
As associations from all parts of the electric vehicle ecosystem, we stand ready to support your work to deliver an overall automotive package that takes charge of Europe’s electric future.