State of Israel, who are you working for?

A new document from the Knesset Research and Information Center prepared at the request of MK Yariv Levin reveals what the state does or does not do in the field of electric vehicles

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04/01/2022

Tuesday, 04 January 2022, 16:17 Updated: 16:32

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The announcements of the climate conference in Glasgow have already been put into circulation, the chairs have been folded, the leaders have gone home to mess around with the micron and the big statements everyone hopes will be forgotten and move on.

But in the end, countries are not examined in writing speeches but in how much they stand behind their statements.

With regard to electric vehicles in Israel, the

transition to reduced land transportation Emissions are made today in two main ways: public transportation and the transition to less polluting private vehicles.

The second group includes hybrid cars, plug-in hybrids and trams.

These are often more expensive than regular gasoline cars so in countries that want to promote these cars such and other incentives are given to encourage the transition to their use.

At the same time, the price of these cars has dropped and their electricity efficiency has been improved, so that their range is significantly longer.

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MK Yariv Levin, initiator of the report (Photo: Official website, Yonatan Samia, Knesset Spokeswoman)

The report of the Research and Information Center of the Knesset written by Ronit Benita indicates changes before market electric vehicles in Israel. For the public transportation system is not attractive, near term Israel has a way of dealing one key to reducing emissions - encouraging greener cars.

Indeed According to data from the Ministry of Transportation, there has been a steady increase in the purchase of electric vehicles or plug-ins in Israel in recent years. In other words, in 2021, five times as many electric cars were sold in Israel as in all previous years. Even today in the markets of Europe and the United States.

Significant increase in demand for electric cars, but where can they be loaded? (Photo: Keinan Cohen)

And while we can all breathe a little deeper in light of this data, for the country this story is much less winky.

With huge revenues from the automotive sector amounting to NIS 40 billion a year and a significant portion of which comes from purchase taxes and fuel taxation, which stands at 65 percent, licensing fees (discounted for electric cars) - rest assured that the budget department and the tax authority are on late. Those that will shrink.

Leap in demand for electric cars and plug-ins (Photo: screenshot, screenshot)

But maybe they do not have to worry so much, since one of the factors that can accelerate or delay the entry of electric cars into Israel is in the hands of another government ministry - the Ministry of Energy. The report of the research center tells what happened to one of the initiatives to promote public charging stations for electric cars. The one published by the ministry in 2018 through four voices calling for funding for tens of millions of shekels for the construction of charging stations for electric vehicles. 2020. So the end of 2020 has passed and the end of 2021 is behind us. As of December 2021, the public has 190 charging stations with 871 sockets - only 35 percent of the target. 97 percent of the positions are slow, one and a half percent speed and one and a half percent ultra-speed, so in this respect, the target of 111 fast and ultra-fast charging stations does not reach even a quarter of the target.What's more, most charging stations (about 61 percent) are concentrated in Tel Aviv or the central area.

You found a position, congratulations, now it remains to be hoped that it will not be occupied by a regular car (Photo: Keinan Cohen, Keinan Cohen)

So the layout is poor, the set-up pace is slow and there are very few quick positions - of the really relevant kind.

Well, that's probably a problem that all countries that are trying to integrate electric cars in the car fleet are not dealing with, is it?

So it's not.

Compared to what is happening in other countries, where the government sees value in promoting the public charging infrastructure, the Israeli story is even sadder.

Examples?

you are welcome.

In China, the number of fast public charging stations rose by 44 percent between 2019 and 2020 and stands at 310,000.

In European countries, the average growth rate is 55 percent between 2019 and 2020.

Remember the Climate Committee?

The promises from there backed by declarations of a transition to a low-carbon energy economy by 2050 are less glittering.

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