Extract from Scotland Parliament debate on Delivering Sustainable and Renewable Transportation - Feb 21
Friday, 22 February 2019 07:24
Jamie Greene (West Scotland) (Con): :...I hope that we can also
look at some of the great work on ultra-low-emission vehicles that
is happening in other countries. For example, on charging points
being a barrier to uptake, we should look at the excellent job that
Amsterdam is doing to improve such uptake. Residents have to
register their electric cars; the Dutch Government collects
that data in order to know the quantity and scale of electric car
ownership in particular streets or areas;...Request free trial
(West Scotland)
(Con): :...I hope that we can also look at
some of the great work on ultra-low-emission vehicles that is
happening in other countries. For example, on charging points being
a barrier to uptake, we should look at the excellent job that
Amsterdam is doing to improve such uptake. Residents have to
register their electric cars; the Dutch Government collects
that data in order to know the quantity and scale of electric car
ownership in particular streets or areas; and, as a result, it can
target investment in charging points instead of having some
arbitrary or sporadic roll-out. I am sure that when he winds up,
the minister will tell us about the number of charging points that
exist at the moment, but the issue is not how many there are, but
where they are. If people cannot charge their cars outside their
front door but have to park streets away to do so, it is very
unlikely that they will buy these vehicles. In our party’s recent
publication, “Global Challenge, Local Leadership: Environment and
Climate Change Position Paper”, we set out a number of what I think
are very useful measures that we would like to be introduced to
increase uptake and ownership of these types of vehicles...
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