Headline Target: No sales of vehicles producing CO2 by 2035 (EU phase-out)

Car Manufacturing Country: AutoMobiles Gillet, Volkswagen AG, Volvo (Geely).

Purchase Incentives for Cars: Ownership tax exemptions. Exclusive incentives: company tax deductions.

Supplier Regulation Policy: EU emissions performance standard (Tightening CO2 regime)

Infrastructure Incentives: Municipalities have purchase incentives for public charging, company charging tax deductible.

Belgium’s transition is largely being spearheaded by motorists purchasing company cars. Belgium does not have many federal incentives for electric vehicles, their main one being a reduction in company tax. This has resulted in the majority of sales coming from this group due to the fact that EVs in Belgium are amongst the most expensive in Europe.

Although Flanders offers motorists grant incentives, these are not available elsewhere, meaning there is a disparity in what motorists can be granted depending on where they live in the country.

Despite some problems with increasing uptake in the country Belgium has seen a steadily rising market share. It  is also a major manufacturing country and they have attracted considerable BEV-making investment, with Volvo and Audi producing their EVs in the country.