Words of Members

Platform members include EU-based industries and environmental NGOs across the whole value chain of electric mobility, across all land transport modes.

Polis is an association of cities and regions working on urban mobility innovation. We’ve been with the platform from the start, also one of the founding members. We are, as a network, involved in the full cycle of electromobility innovation on the research side through our involvement in the 2zero platform, but also in the deployment side.

Cities and regions are essential stakeholders in the electromobility deployment. We buy a lot of vehicles. We set regulations for vehicles in our cities. We also are parking managers and parking means charging.

The Platform offers a unique environment to discuss policies on electromobility to make sure that electromobility does not lose its momentum in European policy. We are also convinced that the Platform is the right ecosystem to really keep electromobility in focus as a transformational technology.

We believe electromobility is a transformational technology because we don’t want a one-on-one replacement of one car by an electric car. We are interested to see the whole mobility system change. We look at shared mobility, at new forms of logistics in cities, at new forms of car use and car ownership.

Electromobility can be an essential part of that system overhaul and system change.

We will fight with the Platform to keep the 2035 deadline in European legislation. And a lot will have to happen to make that policy objective a reality. And we think that we as cities and regions, as procurers, as regulators,as asset owners also, we can really make a contribution to that mission.

Alstom is the European leader for railway equipment, trains from tramways to high speed, signalling, infrastructure and we deliver projects all around the globe thanks to our 85,000 colleagues.

Rail is the best in class in terms of environmental performance of all collective transport modes. And there is no way Europe will achieve its decarbonization targets without increasing the modal share of railway, be it for freight transport or passenger transport.

We call for regulatory stability because in our sector, projects have a very long life cycle. They take years to be prepared and several years to execute.

So any change in the regulatory framework that impacts ongoing projects creates a risk of additional cost, additional delays, which are ultimately detrimental for everyone.

This is why we have to make sure that our regulatory framework changes less frequently, and especially, and this is most important, that new regulatory requirements apply to new projects only.