Party: | Europe Ecologie - Les Verts |
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R11: For an industrial role for electric cars serving the climate, employment, the environment and social justice.
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In the EU, transport accounts for 27% of carbon dioxide (CO2)emissions (2017).
With a modal share of 82% in 2019 (Eurostat), the car is by far the means of
transport used most by European citizens. The personal car is responsible for
around 12% of total EU emissions of CO2.
Electric mobility is developing at an extremely rapid rate and this growth will
accelerate because it corresponds to the strategy chosen by European public
authorities to decarbonise mobility. Thus, the massification of the electric
mobility market is increasing. This motion aims to set the framework for what
could be an ecological vision of the EV, genuinely favouring our social justice
and environmental goals.
- AM-12-1 Verdes Equo
- AM-11-1 Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
- AM-12-2 Esquerra Verda
- AM-15-1 Groen
- AM-12-3 Green Party of England and Wales
The main objective of an environmentally friendly transport policy is to reduce
the use and dependence on private cars wherever possible. Beyond the central
issue of greenhouse gas emissions, the car has negative and systemic effects,
against which we are fighting: inefficiency and congestion, air, noise and water
pollution, use of public space, sedentary lifestyle, road safety, urban sprawl,
land artificialisation, etc.
- AM-21-1 Verdes Equo
- AM-17-1 Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
- AM-19-1 Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
- AM-17-2 Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
- AM-23-1 Groen
- AM-17-3 Federation of Young European Greens
The electric vehicle (EV) is not a solution to all these negative effects.
Moreover, it has its own environmentally and socially negative externalities,
such as the dependence on critical materials. Therefore, our main objective is,
first, to reduce necessary distances wherever possible and, second, to ensure a
shift towards active modes and collective and shared means of transportation.
This must be achieved through a global approach to mobility, which takes into
account transport but more broadly the determinants of travel demand: town
planning, land policies, greater attention to soaring property prices but also
the social and cultural construction of our way of life. An ecological transport
policy is necessarily systemic.
However, due to the very construction of the space we inherit, shaped for cars,
it is still difficult to get around outside built-up areas. This is why,
whilewishing to reduce the space occupied by the car, it is also necessary to
support the transition to less-polluting automobile mobility. The EV can be one
way of achieving such a transition.
The European Green Party:
1. Ensuring the sustainability of vehicle and battery production throughout the
value chain:
- declares that the EV is an improvement on thermal vehicles running on
fossil fuels of the same category in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and
local pollutants over the vehicle’s life, especially in an increasingly
carbon-free electric mix;
- notes the need to monitor load factors. It is crucial to avoid situations
in which a very large number of vehicles are recharged at the same time in
order to limit the need for additional, potentially carbon-containing
production factors. To do this, we must first maximise the charging
points, especially outside of our homes. Thus, a policy of equipping major
traffic attractors and workplaces would seem essential;
- calls for a European regulation on the consumption of EVs, defined in kWh
per km, to support energy conservation;
- AM-48-1 Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament
- AM-51-1 Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament
- AM-48-2 Verdes Equo
- AM-50-1 Groen
- supports the principle of a new European regulation on batteries and calls
for the highest environmental standards to be implemented. More
specifically, the EGP advocates the most ambitious possible targets in
terms of recycled contents. Moreover, the new regulation should provide
for a mandatory CO2 footprint on battery labelling;
- is in favour of European market design rules that maximise the benefits of
EV auto-consumption from individual solar panels;
- supports the development of EV-based network services (flexibility and
storage, vehicle to grid);
- AM-56-1 Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament
- AM-60-1 Esquerra Verda
- AM-60-2 Green Party of England and Wales
- AM-56-2 Green Party of England and Wales
- asks emission calculations to be systematically carried out over the
entire life cycle and not "from tank to wheel", as is currently the case,
which amounts to artificially downplaying the benefits of alternative
transitional paths, such as traffic moderation, urban-sprawl limitation
and, above all, the development of active modes wherever possible.
2. Favouring long-distance modal shift:
- AM-62-1 EGP Committee
- AM-62-2 Vihreät - De Gröna
- AM-63-1 Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
- AM-63-2 Groen
- AM-63-3 Green Party of England and Wales
- AM-64-1 GroenLinks
- proposes that EVs should primarily be supported for local mobility in
rural areas where public transport and active travel are not an option to
cover all mobility needs. For long-distance travel, the EGP promotes a
train-based transport system;
- considers as an effect that highway charge-point equipment on travel
corridors that are also served by rail services should not be considered a
priority.
3. EU industrial policy:
- encourages the EU to take any relevant action to promote the
interoperability of charge networks across national borders;
- AM-74-1 EGP Committee
- AM-72-1 Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament
- AM-76-1 Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
- supports the production of batteries in Europe, which constitutes an
opportunity to reindustrialise our territories and produce useful,
qualified and stable jobs. ‘Made in Europe’ batteries should continue to
be exempted from state-aid regulation until the competitiveness gap with
foreign actors has been filled;
- stresses that the EU should help territories, companies and employees to
anticipate the profound changes attracted by the shift towards electric
mobility. In particular, EU Structural and Cohesion Funds could be used in
the transition towards the EV, notably to finance vocational training.
Amendments
- AM-1-10 (Groen)
- AM-3-10 (Groen)
- AM-5-7 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-5-8 (Groen)
- AM-6-8 (Groen)
- AM-11-1 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-12-1 (Verdes Equo)
- AM-12-2 (Esquerra Verda)
- AM-12-3 (Green Party of England and Wales)
- AM-15-1 (Groen)
- AM-17-1 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-17-2 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-17-3 (Federation of Young European Greens)
- AM-19-1 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-21-1 (Verdes Equo)
- AM-23-1 (Groen)
- AM-27-1 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-28-1 (Esquerra Verda)
- AM-35-1 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-35-2 (Esquerra Verda)
- AM-35-3 (Groen)
- AM-39-1 (EGP Committee)
- AM-43-1 (Green Party of England and Wales)
- AM-45-1 (Groen)
- AM-46-1 (Esquerra Verda)
- AM-48-1 (Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament)
- AM-48-2 (Verdes Equo)
- AM-50-1 (Groen)
- AM-51-1 (Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament)
- AM-52-1 (EGP Committee)
- AM-53-1 (Groen)
- AM-54-1 (Green Party of England and Wales)
- AM-55-1 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-56-1 (Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament)
- AM-56-2 (Green Party of England and Wales)
- AM-60-1 (Esquerra Verda)
- AM-60-2 (Green Party of England and Wales)
- AM-61-1 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-61-2 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-62-1 (EGP Committee)
- AM-62-2 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-63-1 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-63-2 (Groen)
- AM-63-3 (Green Party of England and Wales)
- AM-64-1 (GroenLinks)
- AM-66-1 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-66-2 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-66-3 (Groen)
- AM-67-1 (EGP Committee)
- AM-71-1 (Vihreät - De Gröna)
- AM-72-1 (Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament)
- AM-74-1 (EGP Committee)
- AM-76-1 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
- AM-77-1 (Groen)
- AM-78-1 (Groen)
- AM-80-1 (Verdes Equo)
- AM-80-2 (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)