According to Commission Vice-President Teresa Ribera, the Brussels authority is working on an EU-wide incentive program for EVs. It makes sense to think about an EU-wide solution instead of using national subsidies, the Spaniard told the Financial Times. She warned against „a race in which one national model stands against the other“. Chancellor Olaf Scholz had called for an EU-wide approach in a letter to the Commission. The Commission had announced that a working group in the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the Automotive Industry would also discuss the harmonization of purchase incentives. Purchase incentives are the responsibility of the member states.