The Board and the City council of Salamanca bet by the electrical vehicle

The Council of Economy and Employment, through the Regional Body of the Power of Castile and Leon, and the General Steering of Industry and Technological Innovation, has elaborated the guidelines for the development of the electrical vehicle in Castile and Leon, that collect in the guide of the electrical vehicle. This document elaborates with the end to promote and spread the penetration of this type of vehicles in the Community. The manufacturing of this guide has been possible thanks to the participation of the 21 municipalities that concentrate more than 52% of the population of Castile and Leon, that suppose 57% of the economic activity and that have 46% of the vehicles to engine of the Autonomous Community.

The Community has roughly 1.800.000 vehicles, of which almost 73% are tourisms, that besides have a high half age, by what are less efficient energetically and therefore have a high potential of energetic improvement. The number of kilometres that realise daily, by reasons of work mainly, situates above the 12.500.000, what ocasiona an energetic cost newspaper of more than 750.000 litres of fuel, that translated to broadcasts of CO₂ are roughly 1.500 daily tonnes. Many of these travel (more than 75%) do in distances of less than 50 kilometres, ideals for the electrical vehicles.

Thus, the Board of Castile and Leon supports the use of the electrical vehicle designing instruments of fundamental planning, like the Regional Strategy of the Electrical Vehicle 2011-2015 and the actions of the Plan of Saving and Energetic Efficiency of Castile and Leon. The regional strategy is developing one of regional network of infrastructures of recarga, with 300 points in public road, 600 points in parkings of public use and 3.000 in home addresses. Besides it wants to coordinate the legislative adaptation to the urban surroundings for the correct implementation of the infrastructures of recarga and promote strategic economic activities around the electrical vehicle. The strategy pretends also an improvement of the environingingment and promote the diversification of energetic sources and involve to the 21 municipalities with greater number of inhabitants of the Community, to initiate the constitution of a future network of municipalities.

On the other hand, the Board of Castile and Leon has allocated to helps for the renewal of the park of vehicles (electrical and hybrids and of other fuels) 13.759.551 euros that have arrived to 443 units in these four years. In Castile and Leon, in this last year, have conceded helps to 145 electrical vehicles that have been purchased of majority form by SMEs and companies, and local public servicys (including the subsidized vehicles by the Idae). All these measures suppose an energetic saving of 5.192,6 equivalent tonnes of oil to the year. Besides, it supports the learning like base to promote the knowledge of this technology. During the course 2012-2013, a total of 27 IES of the nueve provinces of the Community give contained to 1.254 students on technologies of electromechanical in formative cycles of automotive sector. Four of these find in the province of Salamanca, forming to 184 students at present.

The Museum of the Automotive sector of Salamanca has been the ideal surroundings to receive this act, as it receives these days the exhibition Energies of Future, an exhibition of vehicles with alternative fuels, that exhibits gifted vehicles of energies and alternative fuels to the traditional, between the find distinct models of electrical vehicles.