This new electric carcass station in the center of the city is available 24 hours a day.
The City Council will enable four new semi-rigid recharge points.
The fleet of vehicles of the City Council has today a new 100% electric car for the promotion of sustainable mobility and clean travel.
The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, accompanied by the councilman of Urbanism, Environment and Huerta, Antonio Navarro, inaugurated the new point of recharge for electric cars, public and free, which has been enabled in La Glorieta, and received the new car 100% electric for the promotion of sustainable mobility and non-polluting movements that adds to the fleet of municipal vehicles of the City of Murcia.
This new public recharging point in the city center has been provided by the Regional Federation of Entrepreneurs of the Metal of Murcia (Fremm) to the City and, from today, will be available 24 hours a day and completely free, For all users of electric vehicles.
"Murcia currently has 22 different locations for the recharging of electric vehicles, distributed by gas stations, shopping centers and public car parks," explained the mayor, who added that "from the City Council we are going to promote a public network of points of loading and, Next months, we will enable four new semi-rigid 'electrolines' in the urban area of ​​Murcia. "
Today's event is one of the first actions included in the Local Electric Vehicle Strategy 2017-2019, the most important milestone in terms of support to the electric vehicle carried out so far in the City of Murcia, which includes a total of 50 measures.
Ecological vehicle of '0 emissions'
The new electric vehicle that is incorporated for the displacements of the municipal personnel is a Renault model ZOE R40 that the concessionaire Herrero and López yields to the City council free of charge during a year, for the promotion of the sustainable mobility in the municipality.
It is an ecological vehicle with the accreditation of '0 emissions' and with a high autonomy (about 300 km).
"More and more people are aware of the benefits of electric vehicles and, from the City Hall, we want to go a step further and be pioneers in the progressive implementation of this clean and non-polluting technology as one of the measures defined in the Strategy Local ", said the mayor, who recalled that" the municipal fleet is composed of about a hundred vehicles 'clean' cars, mopeds, light trucks and cleaners. "
Local Strategy: definitive support for electric mobility
The goals set out in this road map presented yesterday by Councilman Antonio Navarro are the promotion of sustainable mobility, energy saving and emission reduction through reducing the impact on climate change.
Another of the measures that will be implemented immediately is the municipal line of subsidies to support the installation of recharge infrastructure in neighboring communities.
The document, presented yesterday at the working table composed of associations and groups related to electric mobility, establishes the main lines of action that the City Council intends to develop until 2019 in the area of ​​promotion, promotion and support of electric mobility.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia