Denmark to promote the use of electric vehicles in the city

Copenhagen, the Danish capital, residents now have a green choice, rent a car. Sixt Car Rental Copenhagen, DKK 99 per day only (about $ 19) Car Rental.

 

"Electric cars can be a very low cost, public transportation is not a taxi can match the freedom of movement, said:" Caspar Gjedsted, Denmark in the Sixt car rental CEO.

 

Climate and environment is the focus of work in Copenhagen, the aim is to become the world's first carbon-neutral by 2025 the capital. As a start, it plans to reduce its 2015 carbon dioxide 20 (CO2) per cent of total production.

 

Currently, carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles account for the city's total carbon dioxide emissions of the main part. Therefore, it is critical for sustainable urban transport, the electric car is a good alternative to traditional gasoline-powered cars, because they are more efficient use of energy.

 

Citroen C1 Electric

 

Sixt offers from electric car is a Citroen C1, Ev'ie, looks almost the same gas as the driving force of the Citroen C1, but run on electricity. In a fully charged, it can cover 80-100 km, can reach about 80 km per hour maximum speed. Its low noise, low emissions and automatic gear also make it a comfortable car to drive.

 

Another advantage is that the car free of all fees and charges charged by a common 220-volt power outlet station. A guide to install the water meter is blinking, the battery under the age of 25 per cent, which indicates that charge is necessary. A full charge requires seven to nine hours.

 

According to the Sixt car rental sites, rental price is 349 Danish kroner a normal day (about 68.5 U.S. dollars). The reduced price, said the daily, as electric vehicles can be parked free of charge public parking spaces in Copenhagen and in charge of public charging stations, the fact that freedom is the lure toward green energy driving experience all of them.

 

"Now we want to have electric cars on the road. But in the long term, prices will be determined by supply and demand," Gjedsted explained.

 

Cost-effectiveness

 

Studies show that electric cars can beat the traditional operating costs. It costs 28 Danish kroner (about 5.5 U.S. dollars), used to drive electric vehicles to 100 km.

 

In contrast, it costs about 60 Danish kroner (about 12 U.S. dollars), the average car driven 100 kilometers.

 

In addition, with an electric car can help save each year to maintain tax, which is only 520 DKK Citroen C1, (102 U.S. dollars).

 

And free and convenient parking, not just a cheap drive is the cause consumers to electricity.

 

"I have spent 10 to 20 minutes trying to find parking near the place," Simon said Olsen who works in downtown Copenhagen.

 

"This is a stimulating, sometimes customers are waiting in the office, I can not find anywhere to park. Then I bought an electric Citroen Saxo ... parking is no longer a problem," he told reporters.

 

Already has a five-year car, Olsen is the city that a major advantage of the free (but limited) parking spaces reserved for electric vehicles, and in fact, the small size of the car makes it easy to stop.

 

"But there are shortcomings," he admitted. "I asked my friends to pull carts to the toll station, for car batteries," he said.

 

Limited scope?

 

Electric car is an ideal "city car", but obstacles when it comes to long distance driving. This leaves the design of the electric car is not just a single charge being short-range automotive designers can challenge.

 

March 2011, the Danish car batteries and utility companies to better introduce the world's first so-called "infinite range" electric vehicles. There can switch batteries and battery charging and replacement services service station network, the vehicle closer to the dream of long-distance.

 

The idea is to separate cell vehicles, set up the infrastructure in Denmark, so that drivers need to re-charge the battery switch. On a long trip, the driver can enter a cell switching station, in exchange for a fully charged battery runs out of pre-and continue their journey. The switch takes less than five minutes.

 

There are indications that Copenhagen is a sign of power transportation and other warm. Chinese automaker BYD Auto in March that the two full-size, all-electric BYD K9 buses will be deployed in ordinary passenger service in and around Copenhagen and from the second half of 2012 Movia, Denmark's largest public transport agency partnership.

 

The bus in the K9 is expected to reduce compared to conventional buses, carbon dioxide emissions by 55 percent.