Invitation: Exploring the future of sustainable electric vehicle chargers

The growing market of electric vehicle chargers (EVCs) has led to increasing environmental impacts that are at the risk of being overlooked. To address this issue, the City of Malmö would like to invite you to a collaborative process with the goal to deepen our knowledge about how the EVC procurement can become more circular.

As partner of the ProCirc project, we are inviting public and private organisations, as well as the industry, for a number of workshops and open meetings with the goal to produce a joint statement of demand together.

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Why EVC?

Even though electrical vehicles still represent a marginal part of the total market, it is likely to believe that they will rapidly increase in numbers, not least due to political incentives and a growing awareness of the ongoing climate crisis. In 2021, Europe was the second-largest EV charger market and the forecast estimates that the numbers of electric vehicles will increase exponentially in the next few years. Similarly, the demand for EV chargers will follow, and by 2030, 3 million EV chargers will be needed in Europe.

As a result of the fast-growing EVC market, the material flows are emerging, leaving an environmental impact as the chargers are being produced. However, since the electric vehicle is generally regarded as a “green” alternative – as opposed to the fossil-fueled vehicle – its environmental impacts are at risk of being overlooked or regarded as less important.

Setting the standards for circular EVC procurement

The City of Malmö, as partner of the ProCirc project, wants to nudge the EVC market into becoming more circular. By producing a joint statement of demand, consisting of common demands on EVCs when procuring, we would like to join forces with other organizations – public and private ones, as well as with the industry – to set a standard for circular EVCs. The goal is to deepen our knowledge about the EVC market and the potential in using circular models.

We would like to welcome you to take part of a collaborative process with the purpose to outline an initial set of demands, helping the procurement of EVC. The process will start with a webinar in late January 2023 where the possibilities for circular EVC will be explored. The webinar will be followed by about four meetings with the aim to have the joint statement of demand ready by June.

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What is a Joint Statement of Demand?

As the name suggests, a Joint Statement of Demand (JSD) sets out a shared set of ambitions from a group of organisations that regularly buy a particular product category from their suppliers. The JSD is future focused, setting ambitions for roughly five years ahead.The JSD approach is inspired by the Joint Statement of Demand for Circular and Fair Smartphones which was developed under the Make ICT Fair project. It is also based on the Circular and Fair ICT Pact, an initiative under the UN One Planet Network Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) program.