The EV30@30 campaign aims to speed up the development of electric vehicles and has a target of at least 30 per cent of new EV sales by 2030. Shutterstock photo.
EV30@30 supports market for 2-3 wheelers, electric passenger cars, light commercial vans, buses and trucks
This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Sept. 11, 2018.
The United Kingdom and seven major companies today joined the EV30@30 campaign, which aims to speed up the deployment of electric vehicles and target at least 30 percent new electric vehicle sales by 2030.
The expanded membership will strengthen the collective and coordinated approach to meeting the EV30@30 objectives. With the UK, the campaign now has the support of most of the largest EV markets worldwide.
The existing members are Canada, China, Finland, France, India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
“France will act firmly to multiply by 5 the sales of electric vehicles by 2022 while public infrastructure network will be reinforced,” said French Minister of Transport Elisabeth Borne. She added “France also encourages international actions, through cooperation and initiatives such as EVI or the Transport decarbonization Alliance, to meet this global challenge.”
The addition of companies active on the electric mobility front is also a milestone for the initiative, which was started last year by the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM).
It represents a major step forward in the campaign’s multi-stakeholder approach and reflects the reality of the electric mobility transition that is taking place on the ground. The companies are: ChargePoint, Enel X, E.On, Fortum, Iberdrola, the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance and Vattenfall.
ChargePoint President and CEO Pasquale Romano says “Our efforts to support climate action are a byproduct of a decades long effort to build a successful business that has resulted in a comprehensive portfolio of technologies that enable people around the world to drive a better way.”
The EV30@30 campaign is organized by the CEM-Electric Vehicles Initiative (EVI), coordinated by the International Energy Agency. The campaign was launched during the 8th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM8), held in Beijing in June 2017.
Since then, the EV30@30 campaign has succeeded in bringing together over thirty leading cities from twelve countries on the topic of urban electrification via the Pilot City Programme.
This initiative acknowledges that cities are running at the forefront of the electric mobility transition and intends to demonstrate how local- and national-level cooperation brings about more successful and sensible policies.
“The ultimate need to improve air quality and limit emissions, as well as reduce noise caused by vehicles, is increasingly pressing in most urban areas,” said Pekka Lunmark, President and CEO of Fortum.
“We are helping to tackle the challenge by offering customers convenient, affordable and accessible services in electromobility, and by developing cloud services and infrastructure for chargers around Europe.”
The campaign’s target of 30 per cent new electric vehicle sales by 2030 applies collectively to the CEM-EVI membership, and not to individual countries. Governments who endorse the goal show leadership by establishing policies to reach the target and engage through EVI to report progress and share best practices.
“The electrification of transportation is a priority for the Government of Canada as demonstrated by our role as co-chair of the Electric Vehicle Initiative, and our ongoing support for the EV30@30 campaign,” said Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources Amarjeet Sohi.
The EVI recognizes the importance of reducing carbon emissions in the transportation sector, which accounts for almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and is one of the fastest-growing energy end use sectors. It also recognizes the importance of working towards energy efficiency and the mitigation of air pollution from transportation.
“Today, road transport accounts for more than 40 per cent of global oil demand,” said Fortum’s Lunmark.
“We strongly believe that the electrification of transport is one of the crucial elements in limiting air pollution and preventing further climate change.”
The IEA says these environmental, economic and social goals can be addressed through accelerated electrification of the transportation sector.
In 2017, the global electric car stock reached more than 3 million vehicles, after growing exponentially for the last ten years, according to the latest Global EV Outlook report.
In the report’s EV30@30 scenario, where all countries together achieve the EV30@30 target on average, over 220 million electric vehicles (light-duty vehicles, buses and trucks) are deployed by 2030.
The Netherlands has a loftier goal for 2030, according to Stientje van Veldhoven, the country’s State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management. “It’s our goal to have 100 per cent of all new registered cars in 2030 being zero-emission cars.”
The campaign supports the market for 2-3 wheelers, electric passenger cars, light commercial vans, buses and trucks (including battery-electric, plug-in hybrid, and fuel cell vehicle types). It also works towards the deployment of charging infrastructure to supply sufficient power to the vehicles deployed.
Through EV deployment progress monitoring, analytical activities and policy recommendations, the EVI also aims at providing countries with informed material for the implementation of the most effective electric mobility policies possible.
The campaign also aims to foster cooperation among many stakeholders on electric mobility to exchange experiences and deliver quality capacity building to policy makers and other electric mobility stakeholders in EVI countries and beyond.
The EV30@30 campaign is also supported by C40, the FIA Foundation, the Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI), the Natural Resource Defence Council (NRDC), the Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), The Climate Group, UN Environment, UN Habitat, and the International Zero Emission Vehicle Alliance (ZEV Alliance). It also received the backing of the Hewlett Foundation, the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st century (REN21) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) this year.
The CEM is a unique partnership of 25 key countries, including most of the G20 economies, representing 90 per cent of clean energy investment and working together to accelerate the global energy transition.
CEM-EVI participants include Canada, Chile, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
“Electrifying the transport sector is an important part of the efforts to end fossil fuel dependence and to achieve Sweden’s goal of reducing transport sector emissions by 70 per cent by 2030,” said Ibrahim Baylan, Swedish Minister for Policy cooperation and Energy.
“EVI is a key international initiative that promotes and supports electric vehicles to help reduce emissions in the transport sector in Sweden and globally.”
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