The City of Stockholm and Vattenfall Group starting biggest Swedish purchasing of electric cars, Vattenfall AB
Release Date: 2010-05-25
The joint City of Stockholm and Vattenfall Group venture to promote electric cars today, May 25th, received clearance for its application for a SEK 62M grant from the Swedish Energy Agency. This implies that the biggest Swedish purchasing of electric cars may start.“We are very happy about this positive message from the Energy Agency. Today there is tug-of-war to become a prioritized country for the electric car producers and this grant will contribute considerably to putting Sweden on the electric car map. Before a market is established, electric cars are expensive to produce and to buy, and therefore initial support is needed,” says Mr. Göran Lundgren, in charge of the the electric car project at Vattenfall.
”Energy efficient and silent electric cars with low emissions are needed in the Stockholm traffic. Stockholm is a world leader in the use of environment friendly cars, to a great extent because of our previous purchasing of environment friendly cars. Now we hope that we may in the same way inspire more companies in Stockholm to switch to electric cars,” says Ms. Ulla Hamilton, environment and traffic commissioner in Stockholm.
”It is great that Swedish and international automotive industries are expected to supply vehicles on this large scale. With this venture we hope to speed up the development away from dependence on oil and from the greenhouse gas emissions from the traffic in the cities,” says Mr. Tomas Kåberger, Director-General of the Swedish Energy Agency.
| Type: | NORMAL |
| Company: | Vattenfall AB |
| Country: | Sweden |