Clean corporate vehicles

Corporate actors are central to the European automotive sector: they purchase 58 % of new cars and 90 % of new vans, use these vehicles two to three times more intensively than private owners, and typically sell them on the second-hand market after three to four years, a segment where over 80 % of European citizens purchase their vehicles. Given these dynamics, corporate fleets have a pivotal role to play in accelerating the transition from internal combustion engine vehicles to zero-emission vehicles (primarily battery electric vehicles), in both the new and second-hand markets. However, the adoption of zero-emission vehicles in corporate fleets remains limited. In 2025, only 17 % of corporate car registrations were zero-emission, slightly below the overall EU average of 17.4 %.On 16 December 2025, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on clean corporate vehicles, as part of its automotive package. This proposal would introduce national targets for the registration of clean cars and vans by large companies for 2030 and 2035, aiming for an EU-wide share of 69 % zero- and low-emission cars (vehicle with tailpipe emissions of up to 50 g CO₂/km) by 2030, including 45 % strictly zero-emission cars, and 40 % zero- and low-emission vans, of which at least 36 % must be zero-emission. Member States would not be allowed to provide financial support for the purchase, lease, rent, hire-purchase, or operation of corporate vehicles that are not zero- or low-emission vehicles. Additionally, financial support for the uptake of corporate cars and vans would be limited to vehicles 'made in the EU'.The proposal is now in the hands of the co-legislators. In the European Parliament, the Committees on Environment, Climate and Food Safety, and Transport and Tourism are jointly responsible for the file.