Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Feb 2025 | Wopke Hoekstra Commissioner | Dialogue on the future of the automotive sector - Thematic Working Group on 'Clean Transition and Decarbonisation' | — |
| 12 Feb 2025 | Wopke Hoekstra Commissioner | Dialogue on the future of the automotive sector - Thematic Working Group on 'Clean Transition and Decarbonisation' | SRC |
| 29 Nov 2018 | Nele Eichhorn Cabinet member | anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations on e-bikes | SRC |
| 29 Nov 2018 | Nele Eichhorn Cabinet member | anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations on e-bikes | — |
| 13 Sept 2018 | Alessandro Carano Cabinet member | Electric bicycles issues | — |
| 13 Sept 2018 | Alessandro Carano Cabinet member | Electric bicycles issues | SRC |
| 25 Jun 2018 | Rolf Carsten Bermig Cabinet member | electromobility | — |
| 25 Jun 2018 | Rolf Carsten Bermig Cabinet member | electromobility | SRC |
| 19 Jun 2018 | Nele Eichhorn Cabinet member | Light Electric Association | — |
| 19 Jun 2018 | Nele Eichhorn Cabinet member | Light Electric Association | SRC |
Mission & Goals
We are working for light electric vehicles (LEVs)in the European Union with a view to raising awareness on and promoting LEVs as a means of transport that can make a considerable contribution to greening mobility and making it sustainable. We are specifically working for policy frameworks that recognise LEVs as a specific category of vehicles that require their own legal rules. This currently concerns mainly Regulation 168/2013, the Machinery Directive and the Machinery Regulation as well as the Battery Regulation. We also work in standardisation for accurate standards for LEVs, i.e. in CEN TC33, CEN TC354, CENELEC TC21X and IEC TC125.
EU Legislative Interests
Transport policy Technical regulations (type-approval L-category) Machinery Directive and Machinery Regulation Battery Regulation Critical Raw Materials Act Right to Repair Directive Green Public Procurement Horizon 2020 Energy policy Climate change policy Trade Policy Trade Defence Instruments
Communication Activities
On 24 March 2022, LEVA-EU has organized the event "The Future is Electric and Light" in Brussels (B): https://thefutureiselectricandlight.com/. The event was aimed at EU officials, LEV-businesses, related associations, academic and research institutes. At the event, DLR presented their research into "Potential of Light Electric Vehicles for Climate Protection through Substitution for Passenger Car Trips - Germany as a Case Study". This research was commissioned by LEVA-EU. DLR found that half of the kilometres currently driven by car in Germany could theoretically be covered by LEVs. This would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 40 percent compared to car trips. That would mean around 57 million tonnes less emissions per year. Each trip for which an LEV replaces a car would avoid on average 88% of the GHG emissions from the substituted cars. From these findings, DLR concluded that Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs) have great potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector and thus contribute to climate protection. "Resource-efficient vehicles are an important element in reducing the climate impact of the transport sector – along with changes in mobility patterns and technological advances," explains Mascha Brost, who led the study. With large and heavy cars, a major portion of the propulsive energy is used to move the vehicle itself, while only a fraction is used to move the occupants. LEVs can significantly improve this ratio. Due to their lower weight, the battery can be smaller, thus also consuming fewer raw materials in production and causing fewer climate-damaging emissions. The press release on the study is here: https://www.dlr.de/content/en/articles/news/2022/01/20220324_less-emissions-through-light-electric-vehicles.html The study is here: https://www.dlr.de/content/en/downloads/2022/lev-study.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3 LEVA-EU continues to actively use this study to work for better EU legislation for LEVs, which are currently still hindered by major legal bottlenecks. LEVA-EU also uses the study to raise awareness of the potential of LEVs to make transport much more sustainable.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
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