Most tenants in the cities «will soon be forced to no longer own a car»
Electric mobility - still a privilege? Electric mobility is not suitable for mass use yet. This can be partially attributed to the lack of public charging stations. The number of Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations that are located in public parking lots within cities, is indeed modest, as a recent survey conducted among the ten largest cities in Switzerland by the Swiss Daily Newspaper Tages-Anzeiger indicates.
According to ETH Professor and Director of the ETH’s Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP), Thomas Bernauer, existing efforts to raise awareness of electric mobility within cities hardly suffice. He calls for a rapid expansion of public charging infrastructure in order to provide both tenants and homeowners with the option to conveniently and easily charge their EVs. While homeowners may comfortably charge their electric car at home, tenants are disadvantaged as they have to queue in order to charge it at one of the few public charging infrastructures.
Mieter werden «genötigt, kein Auto mehr zu besitzen» - Most tenants in the cities «will soon be forced to no longer own a car.»Thomas Bernauer, ETH Prof.
If this approach does not succeed, most tenants in the cities will soon be forced to no longer own a vehicle. Prof. Bernauer wonders whether this is politically feasible. He stresses that cities should also engage in restricting private transport, either by “mobility pricing” or by enforcing other specially tailored measures.
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