Infrastructure for Alternatve Fuels

There is a clear need for supporting public and private sectors to put in place effective actions to accelerate the development of new refuelling infrastructure with the objectives to:

• establish EU-wide a minimum coverage of refuelling infrastructure for the main alternative fuels that have demonstrated their technological viability and their market potential, to facilitate economies of scale for market introduction;
• ensure implementation of harmonised standards for the main alternative fuels;
• align policy and public/private funding and taxation in the field of alternative fuel infrastructure.
• However, the implementation of these objectives needs to be based on a complete lifecycle performance of fuels and propulsion systems.

Hence, any assessment underlying future infrastructure decisions needs to:

• take into account the potential of alternative fuels;
• consider the capacity of alternative fuels and their infrastructure to actually
• improve energy security, become economically viable and reduce carbon emissions (and meet additional sustainability requirements) so that counterproductive and expensive lock-in is avoided;
• develop the necessary actions on energy infrastructure and on vehicles (in parallel) to ensure consistency and coherence.