International Energy Agency (IEA) Advanced Vehicle Leadership Forum Proceedings: Electric Vehicles Initiative Launch and Roundtable Event

This website features the background and proceedings of the meeting that served to launch the Electric Vehicles Initiative, which involved the International Energy Agency (IEA) and eight countries: China, Japan, France, Germany, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. Expert and high-level representatives from government, industry, and the research community gathered for an international dialogue intended to highlight key lessons emerging from plug-in electric vehicle roll-out programs in different regions and to identify cooperative activities that might accelerate their deployment in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner.