According to the German newspaper Le Monde, the European Union plans to measure the carbon footprint of battery production according to the power structure of various countries, which has aroused the concern of the German automobile industry, they worry that this calculation method may disrupt Germany's expansion. Battery capacity plan.

The European Commission requires manufacturers to publish the carbon footprint of battery production by February, 2025. The national power structure will be the key standard, rather than the actual power supply used in specific production sites. For example, the planned factory in schlesu Northvolt-Beug Tyin heersi, volkswagen's planned battery production base in Lower Saxony and Tesla's existing factory in Brandenburg are all located in three states where wind energy accounts for a large proportion. Although more than 50% of Germany's electricity comes from renewable energy, there is still a high proportion of coal and natural gas in the whole country's electricity structure, this means that the batteries produced in Germany will be considered to have higher emissions than those in France or Sweden, because both France and Sweden mainly rely on nuclear energy, so the carbon footprint per kWh of production is lower. Therefore, industry associations such as the German Association of Automobile Industry (VDA) and the German Federation of Industry (BDI) called on the German economy minister to intervene at the highest level of the European Commission quickly, to benefit German industry and global climate protection, and revise the planned index.

These associations call on the EU to take the electricity purchase agreement as the standard, that is, companies sign an agreement to obtain electricity from specific suppliers, usually from renewable energy. The lobby said: "If the most effective tool to achieve this goal is no longer accepted, German industry will not be able to effectively decarburize and contribute to the expansion of renewable energy." They added that the new EU regulations "are very bad news for climate action and the reputation of German companies in terms of public, rating and investors."