Tramways gain new posts on motorways – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

The Environment Minister John Matos Fernandes, inaugurated on Monday the first posts corridor for fast charging electric cars, between Lisbon and the Algarve, and promised that the structure will be extended to the rest of the country, with a total 50 of these stations to work even in 2016.

“by the end of the year, it will be possible across the country, that we can move in electric vehicles because there will be fast charging stations,” he said Minister also outlined plans for 2017:. “by the end of next year, every county seat will have at least one charging station and electric mobility will no longer be perceived as an urban phenomenon”

João Matos Fernandes, who traveled in an electric car to the Aljustrel service area of ​​South motorway (A2), which hosted the ceremony, explained that, for now, are available to motorists six fast charging stations in four areas of service, the Lisbon-Algarve corridor (Palmela, Alcacer do Sal and Aljustrel, A2, and Loulé service area on the A22). But assured that by the end of the year, will be fifty on several motorways of the country: “It will be possible to travel to Viana do Castelo to the Algarve and the two shafts to the interior,” he said, specifying whether treat the A25, which links Aveiro to Vilar Formoso, and the A23 from Torres Novas to Guarda. “There were no fast charging stations in the country and they are crucial to be able to make distances like this, Lisbon-Algarve, in complete safety in electric vehicles,” said John Matos Fernandes, noting that by the end of the year, these points, which are in service areas of Galp, will be free.

the fast charging stations allow supply in about half an hour, significantly less than the six to eight hours it can take to load one of these cars in a normal post. The completion of the call MOBI.E network, already planned since 2001, involves the installation of a total of 124 points normal loading and technological upgrading and installation of 50 points for fast loading.

The Government took João Matos Fernandes, claims that, “within ten years, 10% of the vehicles’ existing in Portugal are” electric vehicles “. electric cars, however, are a very small share of sales in Portugal. they were sold only 1286 passenger electric in the six years 2010-2015, to which add 645 plug-in hybrid vehicles (which have an electric motor and another combustion).

By comparison, only last month were registered near 16000 passenger in the Portuguese market. the demand, however, has vivid to grow, in part by environmental concerns of consumers and partly due to the lower tax burden on these cars.

the Minister for the Environment He noted that Portugal has to “make a very big effort” to, by 2030, reduce “at least 30%” of emissions of greenhouse gases. João Matos Fernandes emphasized that this goal requires reductions in industry and energy production, but also the “so-called sectors of diffuse source pollution”, where transport has “central role”.