GREEN MEANS GO NOTTINGHAM TO BE FIRST PLACE TO TRIAL
WIRELESS TAXI CHARGING IN £3.4M GOVERNMENT SCHEME
Nottingham will be the first city in the country to use wireless charging for taxis after it was chosen as a pilot area as part of a £3.4m Govern- ment scheme. According to the Nottingham Post, the technology is to be installed at a taxi rank outside Nottingham rail- way station as flexible wireless vehicle charging is launched on UK roads for the first time, the DfT has
announced. Ten electric taxis in the city will be able to recharge their batteries by park- ing over five plates in the road while waiting for their next passengers. The Department for Transport said the system will avoid street clutter from chargepoints and cables, as well as boosting drivers’ earning potential by making charg- ing more efficient. It believes electri- fying taxi fleets in
congested urban areas is crucial to cutting transport emissions and im- proving air quality. Transport Secre- tary Grant Shapps said: “Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle rev- olution, playing a leading role in reducing air pollu- tion in our city centres where peo- ple live, shop and work. “New wireless tech- nology will make
gy, keeping us ahead of the pack, and helping to pro- mote cleaner taxis in our city and potentially take us a further step for- ward towards our goal of being car- bon neutral by 2028.”
Taxi rank outside Nottingham train station where flexible wireless vehicle charging is to be launched on UK roads for the first time
using an electric taxi quicker and more convenient,
WAKEFIELD TAXI DRIVERS URGED TO BUY EVS AS PART OF CARBON NEUTRAL EFFORTS
Taxi drivers have been urged to buy electric vehicles as part of efforts to make Wakefield’s air cleaner. The district council has passed a mea- sure allowing cab- bies to drive a plug-in hybrid car until it reaches the age of 12. According to the Wakefield Express, taxi drivers had to give up any such vehicle after it became ten years old. The local authority says it hopes the move, which was requested by local drivers, will encour- age them to switch from using cars
The council believes the move will encour- age cabbies to buy electric cars
with higher emis- sions.
Speaking at a licensing commit- tee meeting last month, council offi- cer Dave Hollis said: “The reason we’re looking to
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extend the age limit is following a request from the trade.
“It also supports the council’s aim to become carbon neutral by 2030. “I do believe at the
moment we don’t have any plug-in hybrid vehicles on the fleet and we’d like to see that change. “We think this would be a good incentive for drivers and the trade to purchase this type of vehi- cle.” Councillors voted in favour of the move. Committee chair Martyn Johnson said: “I think it will be a good incen- tive to entice licence holders to purchase them because as they have a smaller car- bon footprint than either petrol or diesel cars.”
allowing drivers to charge up at taxi ranks before head- ing off with their next passenger.” Ten electric taxis in Nottingham will be fitted with hard- ware to enable them to use the wireless charging area. The infrastructure will start being laid straight away, and the trials will com- mence in spring 2021.
Nottingham City Council will own the vehicles and provide them to drivers rent free in a six-month trial. If the scheme is successful, the wireless charging technology could be opened out to other motorists. Cllr Sally Longford, deputy leader of the city council, said: “Nottingham is excited to host the trial of this new type of innovative charging technolo-
In July last year the DfT awarded a share of a £37 mil- lion grant to east London-based firm
char.gy which plans to install wireless charging systems on resi- dential streets to help electric car owners who do not have
off-street
parking. Andrea Leadsom, Secretary of State for Business, Ener- gy and Industrial Strategy, said: “Charging technol- ogy,
including
wireless, is vital in giving consumers confidence to make the switch from petrol to electric cars. “This pioneering trial in Nottingham, and others like it, will help us take crucial steps to- wards lower emis- sions and cleaner air. “We are deter- mined to end our contribution to global warming entirely by 2050 - and
cleaner and green- er transport
delivering sys-
tems is a key part of this.”
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