The Environment Bureau has been promoting the popularization of electric vehicles in recent years. The Hong Kong government recently submitted a document to the Legislative Council Panel on Environmental Affairs. The 1,000 medium-speed chargers installed in government car parks will all be completed by the middle of this year, which will enable Hong Kong to realize the electric car at least three years earlier. The target of no less than 5,000 public and private public chargers; it also revealed that a mobile app will be launched as soon as the middle of this year to distribute real-time electronic information on government public chargers to the public.
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According to the latest government document, in the first quarter of this year, electric vehicles accounted for nearly half of the newly sold private cars, and the total number of electric private cars exceeded 30,000, accounting for 4.6% of the total number of private cars.
When all the 1,000 medium-speed chargers installed in the government car parks will be completed in the middle of this year, Hong Kong can achieve the "Roadmap for the Popularization of Electric Vehicles in Hong Kong" at least three years ahead of schedule. Charger target.
Mobile app disseminates real-time information on public charging spots
The Environment Bureau will also launch a mobile application as soon as the middle of this year to disseminate real-time electronic information on government public chargers to the public. It is also considering inviting other private organizations to provide information on the availability of chargers under their jurisdiction to expand the coverage of the application.
In addition, the government is preparing to gradually transform some of the existing gas stations and LPG filling stations into fast charging stations in the medium and long term. tender.
The Environment Agency will launch a mobile app as soon as the middle of this year to distribute real-time electronic information on government public chargers to the public.
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The ratio of new electric vehicles purchased by the government this year has increased to nearly 40%
In terms of government procurement, a total of 386 RVs were purchased last year, of which only 28 (or 7.3%) were electric vehicles.
The document states that the government's environmental protection procurement notice has been updated, and the government's newly purchased and expired small and medium-sized private cars must use electric vehicles as the standard. Of the 142 RVs purchased by the government budget for various departments this year, 55 will be electric vehicles ( That is, 38.7%), and the remaining RVs do not have suitable replacement electric vehicle models due to emergency or rescue needs.
The government has also approached more than 40 semi-government agencies and encouraged them to refer to the government’s new green procurement policy. The Hong Kong Housing Society is planning to introduce electric vehicles in 2022/23; the Airport Authority Hong Kong will increase the number of electric vehicles in the airport by the end of 2030. That's up from 720 last year to more than 3,000.
Last year, the concentration of many pollutants rebounded significantly compared with 2020, and also exceeded the final WHO target. Among them, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) content exceeded the WHO standard by 2.6 times.
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Trial of smart air quality monitoring system next year
In addition, the EPD is developing a smart air quality monitoring system and is expected to launch a pilot project next year to install miniature air quality monitors at different locations in a region to expand the monitoring range, combining data from existing monitoring stations, IoT, artificial intelligence and numerical models , to provide the public with more detailed real-time regional air quality information.
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