Thursday, March 24, 2011

Electric cars: the FIA calls for incentives to purchase

The European office of the FIA (International Automobile Federation) presented to Parliament in Brussels a document entitled "Towards E-Mobility: challenges ahead" which will highlight the critical issues that hinder the widespread introduction of electric cars in continent. The substance is that consumers will focus on zero emission vehicles if the costs (and prices) will fall, if there is a network of charging points and if new technologies to the study will be easily accessible.

The document was based on the experiences of 71 international automobile clubs, including the ICA, which showed that an electric revolution is just around the corner and that the first rumblings came from the sale of hybrid and zero emission cars, which increasingly flood the market. The FIA urges the institutions at all levels - continental, regional and national - to take a leading role in this field working in various directions: economic incentives, working together with companies and universities to perfect the technology of cars and batteries, integrate transport policy with urban planning, energy supply and public services, measures to encourage consumption, "green", better integration of electric vehicles with existing urban transport infrastructure.

This wording of the FIA - which anticipates the publication of a White Paper by the European Commission - is the first step towards the widespread introduction of electric vehicles and could push the introduction of incentives for the purchase of zero emission cars by of those countries that still do not have foreseen.

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