Global expansion of electric mobility under national climate pledges, Digi Mart USA News: A total of 123 countries have announced plans to expand electric mobility in the third round of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted to the United Nations. Of these, 77 countries, including the 27 EU member states, have formulated concrete expansion targets for electric mobility.
The countries with concrete targets account for 65 percent of global automobile sales and are responsible for 37 percent of global transport-sector greenhouse gas emissions. These findings come from the current interactive EV NDC World Map of the think tank Agora Verkehrswende.
In an earlier version of the map, updated as of December 2025, 104 countries had committed to expanding electric mobility, 66 of them with concrete targets.
Christian Hochfeld, director of Agora Verkehrswende, said it is encouraging to see political measures increasingly being taken worldwide to replace combustion engines with electric alternatives. However, he said effective climate protection requires more, and that concrete expansion targets and measures for ramping up electric mobility should be included in every climate contribution, especially from the largest emitters.
Among the world’s ten largest transport-sector emitters, Canada, China and the European Union have set clear targets for electric vehicles in their latest contributions. Major emitters including the United States, India, Russia and Brazil have not yet stated such targets.
NDCs are a central part of the obligations that parties to the Paris Agreement must fulfill. Every five years, countries use them to set out, among other things, their efforts to reduce CO2 emissions in relation to the UN.
High-income countries make up about 46 percent of countries with electric vehicle targets, while most of the remaining commitments (49 percent) come from middle-income countries.
Linda Cáceres Leal, international cooperation project manager at Agora Verkehrswende, said the NDC process is especially important for middle-income countries to draw global attention to their commitments and the international support needed for implementation. “Financial support for developing and emerging economies is necessary so that their growing ambitions can translate into real climate action on the ground,” she said.
