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Westminster City Council is
leading London with incentives
for electric cars. Now NICE Car
Company, based in West London,
is urging more boroughs to
follow suit to help drive down
emissions across the capital.
Westminster currently hosts 60
re-charging points, the highest
concentration of ‘juice points’
in London. It also offers
parking concessions - free
on-road parking and in
council-owned car parks - for a
modest annual administration fee
of £200.
“People buy an electric car for
many reasons, but convenience
and low running costs are among
the most important,” said Julian
Wilford NICE co-founder.
“Westminster’s support, through
parking concessions and juice
points, has gone a long way to
driving interest in this
burgeoning market.”
Electric cars emit no CO2 from
the tailpipe, nor any air
quality pollutants like NOx and
particulates. That helps improve
quality of life for residents
and visitors.
Wilford added, “As more
Londoners switch on to the
financial and environmental
benefits of electric cars it’s
important that concessions in
one borough match those in
another. If confidence grows, so
will the market. The result is a
win-win in which emissions
decline and electric car owners
save money.”
Cllr Danny Chalkley,
Westminster's cabinet member for
environment and transport, said,
"We are happy to lead the way
here in Westminster and champion
electric car drivers. Our
recharging points are proving
extremely popular with hundreds
of people registered to use
them. It makes sense to make
recharging points a standard
format so it's as easy as
possible for people to move to
more environmentally friendly
forms of transport across
London."
While NICE is concerned that
incentives vary across
neighbouring boroughs, recent
moves to better co-ordination
have been welcomed. In July,
Mayor Boris Johnson promised to
treble the number of re-charging
points across the capital and
create a new electric vehicle
partnership. |
