The administrations ask citizens, manufacturers and companies to embrace sustainable mobility. Meanwhile, they drown anyone who wants to do it with paperwork and complex and extremely slow bureaucracy.
Buying an electric car today is a reasonable option for many users, but there are certain concerns that in many cases force them to choose another type of vehicle.
And it is that, at this point, there are multiple vehicles that offer a technology more than suitable for daily use, both in short, medium and long distances. So, what’s wrong? Why are the sales figures not in line with the maturity of the technology?
The bureaucracy, that bottomless pit that swallows everything in Spain
Many will argue that electric car prices they are too high. And they are right, in Europe this aspect is far from being resolved.
However, there are still interesting options that, with the inclusion of purchase aid, become viable for many potential buyers. The problem is the same as always, requesting and receiving aid implies going through a tedious, cumbersome and long process. Very long.
“Iberdrola currently has more than 2,000 recharging points in the pipeline that could already be operational”
Well, the same thing happens to companies that want to install public charging points in Spain, as denounced Rachel Whiteglobal director of Smart Mobility at Iberdrola, in the third webinar of the VII Nissan Forum.
And it is that it is another of the great problems of the electric car in Spain, which the charging network is insufficient (and unreliable, but that’s another topic). And, among other things, this is because it takes between 20 and 30 months to wait to obtain an installation permit in our country.
Raquel Blanco highlighted the “commitment of all administrations to sustainable mobility”, but asked to “expedite the processing of charging points for electric vehicles on public roads. The three administrations intervene in its processing and it takes between 20 and 30 months to obtain the permits. Iberdrola currently has more than 2,000 recharging points in the pipeline that could already be operational.
In addition to its own utility, the increase in recharging points will produce a pull effect towards the electric car, because “The simple fact that the points are visible makes people consider buying an electric”White points out.
According to the global director of Smart Mobility at Iberdrola, the objective of her company is “to lead the development of public charging, to eliminate these barriers to the user. We have approved a 150 million euro investment plan to launch 50,000 charging pointswith more than 2,500 public points, so that the habit is similar to that of going to a gas station”, he explains.
«Because in fast charging stations you can recharge energy to travel 100 kilometers in just five minutes. We think that the electric one is for the city, but it also serves for intercity travel with a good recharging infrastructure », she expands.
Borja Carabante, mobility delegate of the Madrid City Council present at the event, affirms that the deployment of the infrastructure by public and private actors “is vital. The public administration must deploy it and help it, subsidizing it and not putting obstacles.
also demand “unification in the legislation, so that in all the communities it is just as easy to deploy the infrastructure” and “lead by example and that public service vehicles be electric, so that the user sees that electric mobility is there and believes more in it.”
Will the administrations get their act together? Let them do it and help the rest of us do it too.
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