As part of the ongoing climate and energy framework, the European
Commission raised recently the 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target,
moving towards a climate-neutral economy. Transportation represents almost a
quarter of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions, and it is the remaining sector with
increasing emissions, above 1990 levels. Considering also the evolving necessity
for the reduction of fossil fuels dependency, Europe’s strategy has been designed
to support an irreversible shift toward low-emission electric mobility. In
this context, the present work assesses the performance of electric mobility in European
countries, by using a dynamic analysis in the period 2015-2019, framed
in four sustainable dimensions, economy, technology, environment and society.
The methodology aggregates several sub-indicators in a composite indicator by
using the Data Envelopment Analysis, and evaluates the dynamic change in the
sustainable performance through the biennial Malmquist index. Main results indicate
that the total productivity change has been improved mainly due to the
progression of the frontier that has been observed for all countries from 2018.
However, an increasing number of countries have had more difficulties to adopt
the best sustainable electric mobility practices, being necessary to design strategies
to promote them, mainly in underperforming countries.
