Ayvens Mobility Guide: increasing EV cost effectiveness and accelerating adoption
Ayvens releases its November 2023 edition of Mobility Guide, a comprehensive analysis to navigate the ever-evolving world of electric vehicles (EVs), sustainable practices, and international fleet management.
The sales growth of electric vehicles in 2022 and the first half of 2023 has accelerated compared with previous years, confirming that electrification is a megatrend. Thereby, the question isn’t anymore if but how fast the electrification will happen, as the industry is facing multiple challenges and uncertainties.
This 2023 edition of Mobility Guide highlights the main barriers to Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) adoption, which are range anxiety, charging infrastructure complexity and affordability. As the largest multi-brand EV fleet worldwide, Ayvens has an important role to play to demystify the electrification landscape for its clients, particularly for fleet managers overseeing international fleets, and guide them into this ever-evolving landscape to a successful EV transition.
Diving into this complex environment
There are abundant factors to consider while making the EV transition, such as varying data across countries, EV adoption, infrastructure, taxation and incentive schemes, green offer, Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) Total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) parity, sustainability relevance, etc. Ayvens Mobility Guide aims to provide a sustainability compass to support the electrification journey, in this transformative era in the automotive industry, with:
- 46 individual country scorecards showcasing the 6 metrics behind the scoring (EV adoption, charging infrastructure, taxation and regulation, green powertrain offering, sustainability relevance and the BEV-TCO parity vs internal combustion model equivalent);
- An assessment of taxation benefits and regulatory requirements around electric vehicles for 33 countries.
Keys findings from November 2023’ edition include:
- The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) BEV parity has improved in many countries, such as Spain, Belgium and Italy but also Ireland and Poland and** operating a BEV is now cheaper than internal combustion engine vehicle** (ICE)** in many European countries**, such as for instance, France, Belgium, Austria, and Norway.
- Out of the 46 countries examined, only 11 fall into the "developed" category, indicating a robust presence of EVs and favourable conditions for further electrification. All 11 countries are situated in Europe, primarily in the western and northern regions. Norway (with a score of 81), Austria (with a score of 69) and The Netherlands (with a score of 68) emerge as the best prepared countries for the electric vehicle revolution.
- Many transitioning countries, such as Portugal (with a score of 57), Switzerland (with a score of 54), and Ireland (with a score of 51), are progressing and closing the gap with developed countries.
‘With fast technological evolution, rising energy costs, and inflation on vehicles, we’re living in uncertain times and facing adverse winds. This makes the EV transition, especially when it involves making decisions that affect multiple countries, a complex process’, comments Annie Pin, Chief Commercial Officer at Ayvens. ‘As a global sustainable mobility player, we are committed to accelerating the take up of EVs, by providing a one-stop-shop solution for electrification. This goes hand in hand with accompanying our clients in this journey, jointly supporting the achievement of their corporate climate goals in this ever-evolving world. And our Mobility Guide is already a success story, with many of our clients using the country classification to pace their transition’.
