Event: Decoding China’s Electric Vehicle Success: Lessons for Europe

Registration

Date: 11 June 2025, 08h30 - 10h00 a..m; (CEST)

Venue: FES EU office, Rue du Taciturne 38, 1000 Brussels

Please register here.

Participation in person

Format: breakfast expert discussion, Chatham House Roule

Language: English

China's rise to become an EV and battery superpower has been even more impressive and shocking than its past scale-up in other manufacturing fields. More so than other fields China came to dominate, like steel, electronics, or solar, the car industry is rightly perceived as a pillar of economic success for advanced economies. How did China achieve this success? How could it happen so quickly? And are there any strategies that China used that might be applied elsewhere, in particular in Europe?

FES has recently published a policy brief “Decoding China’s Electric Vehicle Success: Lessons for Europe” on this subject, by Anders Hove, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He researches on China’s clean energy innovation and consults on global strategies for dealing with China’s arrival on the EV scene.

Anders Hove will present the findings of this publication and share insights from his research, catalysing a discussion of different paths forward for European companies and policy makers. We will hear comments from relevant EU policy makers and stakeholders and also engage in a discussion with our roundtable participants about these questions.

Agenda

08h15
Registration and coffee

08h30
Welcome and Opening by Claudia Detsch, Director of FES Just Climate Competence Centre, Brussels

08h35
“Electric vehicles and Battery Supply Chains: Lessons from the China Playbook”
Anders Hove, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

08h50
Comments

• Benjamin Denis, Senior Policy Adviser, Head of Industrial Policy Coordination, industriAll European trade union
• NN, DG GROW, European Commission
• NN, Automotive Industry

Followed by Q&A with the roundtable participants.
Chair: Stephan Thalhofer, Policy advisor, FES Just Climate Competence Centre, Brussels

10h00       End

Download and read the FES study “Decoding China’s Electric Vehicle Success: Lessons for Europe”:

Link to the English version

Link to the German version