Hong Kong official announcement, about 70 % and half of the newly registered private cars in Hong Kong this year are electric vehicles.
According to the Hong Kong Government Commission, Xie Zhanhuan, Director of the Hong Kong Environment and Ecological Bureau, at the Environmental Affairs Committee of the Legislative Council on Monday (April 22), when the opening speech of the rapid charging station or oil power station on the oil station transition, Make the above statements.
He said that the transformation of traditional fuel vehicles to electric vehicles has become a global trend.About 70 % of the newly registered private cars in Hong Kong for the first two months of this year are electric vehicles, and the green transformation of electric commercial vehicles has also begun.These development requires the support of sufficient charging infrastructure.The Hong Kong Government will increase the total number of public and private charging parking spaces to about 200,000 through a series of measures in mid -2027.
Xie Zhanhuan said that the demand for vehicle fuel and liquefied petroleum gas in the Hong Kong government will gradually decline. Therefore, the future development of more than 180 oil stations and petroleum gas stations in Hong Kong must be planned early to ensure land resourcesUse it.In this regard, the Hong Kong Government will adjust the land contract terms of the fuel station to provide incentives, promote the installation of electric vehicle charging facilities for oil stations, and transform into green fuel supply stations in the long run.
Xie Zhanhuan introduced that after reporting to the Environmental Affairs Committee in December last year, the bureau has issued a letter of invitation to the oil station operator to submit a proposal to the oil station to install a fast charging facility, and received it in February this year.By 98 preliminary proposals.The bureau is expected to provide about 100 or more chargers in the existing oil station in the 2024 to 2025 fiscal year. In the first quarter of this year, two vacant oil stations located in Kowloon East and the East of New Territories this year can be transformed rapidly.Public bidding.
According to the official website of the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Agency, the Hong Kong Government announced the first Hong Kong electric vehicle popularization roadmap (roadmap) on March 17, 2021 to explain the use of electric vehicles and its in Hong Kong in the futureThe long -term policy goals and plans required for the required facilities.The route chart will lead Hong Kong's future direction of zero vehicle emissions in 2050, in order to cooperate with Hong Kong's commitment to strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
As of the end of February this year, the overall number of electric vehicles in Hong Kong was about 83,100, accounting for about 9.0%of all vehicles.As of the end of March this year, there were 8056 chargers in Hong Kong for public use, including 4,662 medium -speed chargers and 1397 fast chargers, distributed in 18 districts in Hong Kong.
