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Consumer-friendly charging is instrumental for the mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). As well as binding deployment targets for public charging infrastructure, the EU’s Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) includes important requirements on price transparency and payment methods.
However, despite these requirements, public charging across Europe still has structural problems that undermine consumer trust: an opaque, multi-layered pricing system hindering comparison, billing complexity that makes costs impossible to predict, local monopolies and payment methods that remain inaccessible to many.
BEUC calls on the European Commission and co-legislators to close AFIR regulatory gaps and address the underlying market failures, including market concentration, that keep public charging expensive and difficult to use.
However, despite these requirements, public charging across Europe still has structural problems that undermine consumer trust: an opaque, multi-layered pricing system hindering comparison, billing complexity that makes costs impossible to predict, local monopolies and payment methods that remain inaccessible to many.
BEUC calls on the European Commission and co-legislators to close AFIR regulatory gaps and address the underlying market failures, including market concentration, that keep public charging expensive and difficult to use.
Position papers
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English
BEUC welcomes the opportunity to provide suggestions to the European Commission’s upcoming Citizens Omnibus, which aims to simplify EU rules so this process improves citizen’s lives concretely when dealing with cross-border situations.
In this document, BEUC focuses mainly on improving the consumer experience in EU cross-border situations. For more recommendations about how the EU can continue improving consumer lives across Member States, BEUC’s view on the Consumer Agenda 2025-2030 is available here.
In this document, BEUC focuses mainly on improving the consumer experience in EU cross-border situations. For more recommendations about how the EU can continue improving consumer lives across Member States, BEUC’s view on the Consumer Agenda 2025-2030 is available here.