The electric car, for a carbon-free and sustainable future

To support the ecological transition and curb global climate change, EDF is committed with its CAP 2030 program to three priorities:

The development of renewable energies, particularly solar, which will constitute 30% of the production mix by 2035.

The carbon neutrality of its own activities with the ambition of reducing it to 35 g/kWh worldwide by 2030 before total neutrality in 2050, by stopping coal, reducing gas in favor of renewable energies (which should be doubled) to 50 gigawatts.

Finally, the service provided to the customer, with innovative and low-carbon solutions such as those offered today to owners of electric vehicles, via offers such as:

- The "Vert Electrique Auto" offer where your consumption linked to the recharging of your vehicle gives rise to the injection of renewable energies into the network, while benefiting from 50% cheaper rates at night or on weekends -end (optional).

- The "Vert Electrique Régional" offer, which highlights production by wind turbines in one of the four parks selected in Brittany and Pays de la Loire and which will soon be extended to other regions.

Finally, if the electric car offers many advantages, the question that remains is that of its carbon footprint over its entire life cycle, and more particularly on its battery. To this end, special efforts have been made. Upstream, rare earths (toxic metals) are no longer used in currently produced lithium-ion batteries. At the end of battery life, the European Union also imposes a minimum of 50% recycling of their weight ⑺.

Future generations of batteries will accelerate this trend, such as those “Metal-Air” developed in the various European “Battery Airbuses”. The challenge is even greater autonomy for ever more complete recycling.

Everything therefore leads the electric vehicle to be seen today as the solution for increasingly low CO₂ travel and a more sustainable world.

(1) Source: CCFA / AAAData (CCFA.FR)

(2) Source: IFPEN (ifpenergiesnouvelles.fr)

(3) IPCC report (Annex 3: Technology Specific cost and performance parameter, 2011)

(4) Source: Eurostat (second half of 2020)

(5) Source: EDF SA scope - 2020 data: Direct emissions, excluding analysis of the life cycle of means of production and fuels.

(6) Source: International Energy Agency (Emission Factor September 2020)

(7) Directive 2006/66/EC of 6 September 2006

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