LAST WEEK IN PARLIAMENT

The Joke that is " Electric Vehicles" to be used as Taxis.

Jim Cunningham Labour, Coventry South

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to promote the installation of charging points for electric cars in the West Midlands.

Jesse Norman Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Government has in place generous UK-wide funding schemes to assist with the cost of installing electric vehicle chargepoints in motorists’ homes, on residential streets and at workplaces; of which the West Midlands can take advantage.

In addition to these, Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton City Councils in the West Midlands have all received funding via our Ultra Low Emission Vehicle Taxi Scheme to install chargepoints and infrastructure for electric taxis.

Coventry has received £1.2m to install 39 chargepoints by 2020.

Birmingham has received £2.93m for 197 chargepoints and

Wolverhampton has received £478k for 24 chargepoints by 2020.

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There we have.. it the Government Plan for encouraging Taxi and PH drivers around the West Midland (the second most populated area of the UK.) to Upgrade their current diesel Taxi to a

£70 grand Electric vehicle, which will not do the job. Even if you could charge it twice a day !

And by the way the chargers will take two years to be operational !

They Government have GENEROUSLY paid for

260 Charge points to encourage THOUSANDS of Licensed Vehicles to charge their vehicles a couple of times each.

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