On Tuesday at the Warsaw University of Technology PiS government presented the guidelines of its new economic program, which this time concerns the changes in the road transport and automotive.
Plan “On the way to electromobility” anticipates rapidly accelerating sales in Poland electric cars.
What can Polak
– In 10 years, we would like to have a million electric cars in our cities. Such cars, which is sufficient to ensure that drive children to school and kindergarten, go shopping, take care of all the changes that at the moment we handle cars powered fuel – said during the presentation of the plan Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchórzewski. He argued, too, that there are opportunities to exploit this change in the automotive talents of Polish scientists, who have always been known for their innovative activities. – One jump able to overcome two, three floors – rated Tchórzewski. He recalled that he also graduated from the electrical power to the Warsaw University of Technology, and later became a politician.
Flywheel Morawiecki
In the development of the Polish economy and the reconstruction of the Polish industry, which at the beginning of the year He presented the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for development Mateusz Morawiecki only marginally mentioned was the automotive industry. However, at the conference Morawiecki decided that it was the electrification of the automotive industry can be a key part of its program.
– This program is to be a driving force of the Polish economy, the flywheel Polish reindustrialisation – Morawiecki said. This vision combined with the possibilities that open before a Polish “fourth economic revolution”, associated with digitization. – Because if we are able to catch up with Western countries, which for a hundred years to produce engines? Not much we can. But if we are able to jump in and surf on this fourth wave of economic revolution, which is ahead of us? That’s what this is our moment, this is our moment – said Morawiecki.
Electric panacea
Morawiecki said that the plan electromobility has solved many challenges facing the Polish economy, such as the climatic requirements of the EU and the EU’s decarbonisation plan, which is to reduce CO2 emissions.
– Transport accounts for nearly half of all emissions [CO2], therefore we want this half was very hard to attack – said Morawiecki.
Deputy Minister of Energy Michael Kurtyka estimated that if in 2025. Poland will be 1 million electric vehicles will create additional demand for 2 TWh of electricity annually, providing power plants 2 billion zł revenue annually. According Kurtyka charging electric cars will provide a way to store energy, partly solving the problems with demand at night on the energy produced by the power plant. Will reduce the dependence of Polish oil imports, on which we spend 10-20 billion dollars. annually. And it will improve the security of Polish. Reduce is also air pollution in cities.
Bus clean, but expensive
The first step in the electrification of the automotive industry will be the production of electric buses. According to the Ministry of Development in Poland every year buys on the exchange of approx. 1,000 city buses. But last year sold from us only 16 units of buses in the current. Deputy Minister of Development Jadwiga Emilewicz admitted that involves a couple of times even higher price from the bus electric buses with combustion engines or hybrid (electric and combustion).
The situation would change a government program for e-bus, assuming the Emilewicz “to create a Polish bus electrical, whose key components such as a battery, inverter, drive system and infrastructure charging will be produced in the country with the support of the native scientific and research potential “. Deputy head of the department of development assessed, we are already close to production in the country such key components. A realization of the e-bus will lead to sales of buses with a value of approx. 2.5 billion zł per year, and the program can participate private Polish company Solaris and Ursus and Autosan, recently taken over by the state-owned Polish Armaments Group.
By Emilewicz program e-bus, however, will require subsidies from the state coffers at all levels of implementation, ranging from research and development, and finishing on subsidizing purchases of such vehicles. Deputy Minister did not rule out the development or introduction of time obligation for urban carriers of at least 20 percent. rolling stock on electricity.
Waiting for details
Buses current does not provide us but within a decade 1 million cars electric. How PiS government intends to put into practice the vision? It is not known. Will there be tax breaks for buyers of cars in the race, which have to reduce their high price? Such incentives include, for example. France, Germany, Great Britain, but also in Romania and Ukraine – at the moment we do not plan this – told us the deputy minister Kurtyka. He added that may be made other preference for users of electric cars, for example. Waiver of fees for parking in town centers or driving the bus lanes.
Kurtyka also stated that the government is not yet considering introducing legislation that would limit imports of used cars. A decade Poland beats world records in importing cars of old, heavily worn, polluting the air exhaust.
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