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"It has cost the City of Cartagena 18 months, but are already operational the first recharging points for electric vehicles in the municipality," said the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena Manuel Padin, who recalled that "these points are the direct result of a plenary agreement promoted by our Group in May 2017, which was much more ambitious. "

Citizens remember that the local government has yet to modify some of the municipal ordinances so that the newly constructed buildings have the necessary infrastructure to enable recharging the batteries of electric cars.

It is also pending that agreements with service stations and private parking lots be reached in this regard and that free parking of the regulated parking areas be allowed for all vehicles with zero emission cards, issued by the General Directorate of Traffic.

Another point of the Cs agreement in the Plenary was that the gradual replacement of the municipal fleet of vehicles with combustion engines by electric vehicles be planned.

Also the fiscal stimulus in the tax of constructions, installations and works for the establishment of the recharging system of electric vehicles.

For orange training, the absence of recharging points is one of the main reasons that slows down the arrival of electric means of transport in cities.

"Therefore, Citizens is committed to a sustainable future and proposed in 2017 that the City Council take effective measures to promote and encourage a gradual transition from combustion vehicles to other less polluting," said Manuel Padin.

The pilot test of MC and PSOE can end in fudge

Regarding the pilot test that has finished off the PSOE and proposed MC, Manuel Padin considers a nonsense that is not allowed to charge vehicles that are in the name of a company or company, also considers it unviable to force any visitor to arrive in the city with an electric car to go through this laborious process of registration and validation, "not even planned to exploit these points as advertising support so that the future award to a cargo manager has no cost to the municipal coffers".

The orange spokesman also reproaches that individuals have to have a physical document to recharge, "an absolute anomaly in the digital era."

According to the orange spokesman, "if nothing remedies, in a few months the City Council will withdraw the service for lack of demand and the only culprit will have been the political leader," says Padin, who recalls that "these points, along with the electrol payment, which do not exist in Cartagena, are essential to generate demand for cars and electric motorcycles, a pilot test until March 2019 (date given by the PSOE to evaluate the continuity of service) poorly designed is not really betting for this transport but we must implement an attractive network, simple, cost-effective, and free during the first years, and hold it in conditions to generate demand ".

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena