2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

a rapid increase in terms of total vehicle registrations and growth in available models in the period 2010–2020. In the 3rd quarter of 2020, shares increased to 9.9% of all car sales, compared to 3% in the year before. Years: 2019 and 2020 saw a much stronger increase in electric vehicle registrations than in publicly accessible recharging infrastructure deployment. This trend continued in 2020. In fact, in 2019 electric vehicle registrations increased by 50% and in 2020 by 52% in comparison to the previous year, while the increase in recharging infrastructure was only 38% and 30% respectively. While the deployment of faster recharging technology can help to address part of the increased vehicle uptake, continuation of this trend would still imply a serious risk that infrastructure deployment will not go hand in hand with electric vehicle sale in the coming years. This could lead to important shortcomings that can undermine the overall uptake of those vehicles (8.03.2021, COM/2021/103 final, p. 2; Frej, Grabski, Szumska, 2021, p. 2–7). The major assumption of Action Plan on Alternative Fuels Infrastructure (8. 11. 2017, COM (2017) 652 final) is to guarantee that users can be sure of the capacity and availability of sufficient infrastructure before they decide to buy and use alternatively fueled vehicles or vessels. The deployment of (re)charging or (re)fueling infrastructure needs to be accelerated to follow the expected speed of sales of such vehicles and vessels, otherwise they will not be marketable and their uptake will be delayed. It is equally important to provide clean alternatives for fossil fuel-powered vessels at berth in ports and for aircraft in commercial use stationary at gates or at outfield positions. The pace of deployment of these stations together with their interoperability and user friendliness will again, influence the sale of zero- and low-emission vehicles. 3. The drafted AFIR regulation in comparison with AFID directive Directive 2014/94/EU on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure set out a framework of common measures for the distribution of such infrastructure in the EU. Member States passed national policy frameworks (NPFs) to establish markets for alternative fuels and ensure that an appropriate number of publicly accessible recharging and refueling points is put in place, also to enable free cross-border circulation of such vehicles and vessels on the TEN-T network (the Trans-European Transport Network, Reg. 1315/2013/EU, OJ L 348, 20. 12. 2013, p. 1–128). In particular, the NPFs had to comprise national targets and objectives for the distribution of alternatives fuels infrastructure, taking into account national, regional and union-wide demand. Member States had to transpose the AFID Directive and to notify their NPFs to the Commission by 18 Nov. 2016. There have been lots of delays in the transposition and the Commission opened 24 infringement cases for non-transposition in 2017 and 2018. In the course of 2018 most of the cases were closed and the remaining ones in 2019 and 2020. In its recent report on the 6-year-long application of this directive the Commission noted some progress in the implementation process (8. 03. 2021, COM/2021/103 final, p. 4). However, the Commission also noticed clearly visible shortcomings of the current policy frameworks: as there is no detailed and binding methodology for member states to calculate targets and adopt measures, their level of ambition in target

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