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EXEMPTIONS FOR PORTSMOUTH CLEAN AIR ZONE AND EV RAPID CHARGER VIEWS SOUGHT
Some drivers and operators of specific vehicles may not need to pay to drive in the Portsmouth Clean Air Zone when it launches in November this year. Some vehicles will be exempt for a lim- ited time including wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs) that are licensed as either a private hire vehicle or hackney carriage which will be exempt from paying to use the Portsmouth CAZ for the first six months after the CAZ launches. You’ll need to provide the following evidence to support your application: • Your vehicle licence, if you’re licensed with Portsmouth City Council If you’re licensed outside of Portsmouth City Council, you’ll also need to supply: • V5 document • Photographs of the front, back and both sides of the vehicle
You’ll also need to provide proof of intent to upgrade your vehicle, such as an application to a Clean Air Fund grant. If you’re not applying for a grant, you’ll need state that you’re committed to upgrading your vehicle on your exemp- tion application, and if you don’t upgrade, you’ll be liable to pay the CAZ charge after the six-month period. Vehicles that provide community and school transport are exempt from paying the CAZ charge for two years from launch. This includes: • Minibuses registered as taxis • Double-decker buses that provide school transport.
For this exemption, school transport means any vehicle that is used in trans- porting children to and from school, and does not include transport used for school trips or off-site activities. If you provide a regular school or com- munity transport service, but don’t fall into one of these categories, please contact the council to discuss further. You’ll need to provide the following pieces of evidence to support your application:
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• V5 document for each vehicle • Photographs of the front, back and both sides of the vehicle
• Proof of services provided: e.g. a contract, or a section 19 or 22 permit.
These vehicles will be exempt for two years from the launch of the Portsmouth, but you’ll need to renew your vehicle with Portsmouth City Council at least every year.
Have your say on where rapid chargers for taxis and PHV s should be installed To improve air quality, funding has been awarded to Portsmouth City Council to install rapid chargers for electric taxi and PHVs in the city. These rapid chargers will be able to fully charge an electric vehicle in rough- ly 30 minutes, and the aim is to install them in time for the CAZ launch in November 2021. These are intended to be used by taxis and private hire vehi- cles and will help make the city's fleet cleaner and better for the environment. If you're in the taxi trade, submit your
opinions about where they should be located and how they should be used. Think about the following: • Would you be likely to charge your vehicle mid-shift or before or after your shift at a rapid charger? This would take 30 minutes to fully charge the battery
• If so, would you need the charge point to be near to facilities like pub- lic toilets, cafés or shops? Or would you be happy to rapid charge any- where in the city?
• If not, would you only be willing to charge from home when you're not on shift? A trickle charge from a non- rapid charger can take six to eight hours to fully charge a vehicle
• Would you use a shared, public access On-Street Charge point close to your address, if it's not occupied? This would have a marked charging bay and pay-as-you-go charge point.
• Where would your top three pre- ferred locations be for rapid charger installation in Portsmouth?
NEW BROMSGROVE RAPID CHARGER OFFERS FREE POWER TO EV CABBIES
Drivers of electric taxis and PHVs can now get free charging in Bromsgrove after ENGIE unveiled its first ‘contact- less charging point’ in the country. According to the Bromsgrove Stan- dard, the latest rapid charger – which has two points – was unveiled in April at the Windsor Street Car Park through a partnership between ENGIE and Bromsgrove DC. To support Bromsgrove’s Ultra Low Emissions Strategy, there will be 13 charging machines in place when the network is completed. The rollout is due to £300,000 funding to the coun- cil from the Governments’ Ultra Low Emission Taxi Infrastructure Scheme.
Council registered taxi and PHV drivers will be able to charge their EVs free for the first year with substantial discounts for the next nine years. It is hoped the move will encourage more motorists to switch to electric as insufficient public charging points has been a deterrent for drivers switching. Manos Passaris, who was the first taxi driver in Bromsgrove to go electric in 2004, said he cut his fuel bill from £7,000 per year to £700 of electricity. Another EV cabbie, Peter Butler, said since he got his EV three-and-a-half years ago it had been a struggle to find chargers until this new point and two others in the district became available.
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