12 green NGOs write to the Commission and the Swedish Presidency of the EU, calling on them to use the Critical Raw Materials Act to ensure that the sourcing of these minerals does not replace one bad dependency with another.
Transport & Environment, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, WWF, Friends of the Earth, European Environmental Bureau, Birdlife Europe, and big German and Spanish NGOs Deutsche Umwelthilfe and Ecologistas en Acción call for the CRM Act to do 3 things:
The fate of Europe’s biggest carmaker depends on how quickly it can switch to electric
The EU proposal to maximise the efficient use of resources in the car sector is welcome, but some improvements are needed.
But EU regulatory framework for bidirectional charging is needed so that all EVs can be compatible with all chargers.