Tunis/Tunisia — The primary photovoltaic charging station for electrical automobiles was inaugurated on Friday on the seat of the Nationwide Company for Vitality Administration (ANME).
This venture, which features a photovoltaic station with a capability of three kWp, storage batteries and a 22 kW recharging level, will probably be used to recharge ANME’s electrical automobile, which is used to distribute the company’s mail and transport its employees to conferences.
The station in query was commissioned with the assist of battery producer ASSAD, automobile producer BYD, a 100% Tunisian photovoltaic panel producer, Alphanis, and photo voltaic panel installer SUN SOLUTION.
Talking at a press convention held on Friday, ANME Director Basic Fethi Hanchi mentioned the venture goals to indicate how photo voltaic vitality might be used to ensure 100% inexperienced transport.
A promotional marketing campaign will probably be launched to encourage using this resolution by private and non-private firms with a fleet of automobiles for skilled use, he indicated, specifying that the ANME will assist these firms in order that they will purchase electrical automobiles and equip their fleets with photo voltaic shading programs.
In direction of doubling the variety of recharging factors and figuring out pricing fashions
There are at present practically 100 electrical automobiles on the street in Tunisia, nearly all of that are imported by offshore firms, Hanchi identified.
“Research have proven that one of many challenges going through the event of electrical mobility is the buyer’s nervousness concerning the availability of recharging services for electrical automobiles,” he added.
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“Practically 60 electrical charging factors have been put in all through France. ANME plans to double this quantity by the tip of 2024. Charging electrical automobiles is at present freed from cost,” he specified.
The official additional indicated that the ANME had been commissioned by the Ministry of Business, Vitality and Mines to conduct a examine on the pricing of electrical charging.This examine is predicted to be completed early 2024.
Concerning the price of electrical automobiles, he mentioned {that a} standard automobile in the identical vary consumes 10 occasions greater than an electrical automobile, together with set up (charging factors and shading).
By way of price, customers can offset the distinction between these two forms of automobiles by making vitality financial savings.
He referred to as on this regard, the banks to at the very least take into account the potential of financing the worth distinction between electrical and standard automobiles.
Customs duties on electrical automobile recharging tools had been lower to 10%, whereas worth added tax was decreased to 7% from January 1 to December 31, 2023, in line with Article 24 of the 2023 Finance Act, printed on December 23 within the Official Gazette of the Tunisian Republic (JORT).
