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Work to improve West Yorkshire’s air quality by encourag- ing the use of electric
vehicles
(EVs), through the installation of at least 88 new, free rapid
charging
points is set to get underway in 2019. After
securing
almost £2 million from the Govern- ment’s Office for Low Emission Vehi- cles (OLEV) for the work, West Yorkshire Combined Auth- ority has appointed energy and services company ENGIE to install and operate the new charging points. Each charging point
EIGHTY-EIGHT FREE RAPID-CHARGE POINTS TO BE INSTALLED ACROSSWEST YORKSHIRE the
will have two charg- ing bays. One will be specifically for taxis and private hire vehicles and the other will be for all other users. Typical- ly,
the charging
points will provide a full charge to an electric vehicle in around 20 to 30 minutes and will be free to use until late October 2021. The Combined Auth- ority and its district partners, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wake- field councils are providing £1.2m of match
funding.
ENGIE will install, own and operate the charge points for at
Combined
Authority’s key aims and this work will help us achieve that. “Installing
new
charging points at these 88 sites, where people can charge their vehicles for free, is designed to encourage the transfer to electric vehicles. “Making half
the least ten years.
Work will soon get underway to identi- fy suitable and convenient charge point locations. Cllr Kim Groves, Chair of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority Transport
Committee, said:
“Improving air quali- ty across West Yorkshire and Leeds City Region while at the same time dev- eloping the trans- port networks vital to supporting inclu- sive growth is one of
bays exclusively for the use of taxis and private hire vehicles could result in up to 500 diesel taxis and private hire vehicles being converted to hybrid and pure electric versions by 2020, which would reduce Nitrogen Dioxide emissions
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from taxis by as much as 18 per cent, in line with our tar- get of developing Clean Energy and Environmental Resil- ience for Leeds City Region.” Several major pri- vate hire and taxi firms across West Yorkshire provided letters of support for the Combined Authority’s success- ful funding bid. Taxi and private hire drivers would be able to reserve time slots at the new charge points in what will be the sec- ond biggest project to provide charge points for taxis out- side London.
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