The Tías City Council has launched this Wednesday three new charging points for electric cars, one with free and open access for citizens, located on the Central Avenue of Tías Alcalde Florencio Suárez, which is added to the existing one on the Avenida de las Playas in Puerto del Carmen. The other two have been located in places where the City Council has mobile equipment, one next to the headquarters of the Local Police and the central building of the Consistory; and the other in the Mobile Park and Roads and Works Area of the City Council, near the Tías cemetery.
The mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, accompanied by the deputy mayor Amado Jesús Vizcaíno, and the councilors of Transport and Traffic, Francisco Javier Aparicio Betancort, and Roads and Works, Antonio Betancort Ramos, presented this Wednesday the three new charging points, whose installation was completed last week and has been paid for with funds from the City Council's budgets.
In February 2013, Tías was a pioneering municipality in Lanzarote, and one of the first in the Canary Islands, to open the first charging point in Puerto del Carmen. In March 2015, it opened the second point next to the facilities of the Municipal Cleaning Service. And now, from this Wednesday, Tías is launching three new points, providing the municipality with a total of five facilities, two of them for free and open access for all citizens.
"Five years after being the pioneering municipality in Lanzarote to have charging points for electric cars, Tías has once again positioned itself as the first rural enclave on the island of volcanoes to have a charging point to supply energy to non-polluting vehicles," they emphasize from the Consistory.
New acquisition of vehicles, some electric
During the presentation, the mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, announced that the Municipal Government Group (PP and CC) is finalizing a new tender for vehicles for its mobile equipment fleet, where several will be electric, "to gradually ensure that Lanzarote, which this year commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Declaration as a Biosphere Reserve, commits to a model of energy change."
Currently, the Consistory's fleet has six vehicles fully powered by electric energy, five of them assigned to the Municipal Cleaning Service, and another for the Notifications Department.
