The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, signed this Thursday the contract with the company Canarias Eléctrica de Energías Renovables y Movilidad by which the contractor commits to the supply and installation works in the municipality of six semi-fast charging points for electric vehicles.
With an investment of 109,000 euros, it has been mostly co-financed by the Yaiza City Council and the cooperation of the Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Mobility of the Government of the Canary Islands through a subsidy granted by the Autonomous Community to municipalities with a current Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan.
Five of the charging points, with 22 kW of power and 2 charging sockets each, will be installed in the streets La Molina, Lisboa, Malvasía, Janubio and Playa de Afre, in the tourist town of Playa Blanca, and one more, in Joaquín Rodríguez street in the town of Uga. The City Council also expects a subsidy from the Association of Tourist Municipalities of the Canary Islands (AMTC) to install six more charging points.
75% bonus on road tax
The Yaiza City Council reminds residents that it applies a 75% bonus on the road tax to owners of hybrid and electric vehicles in order to promote cleaner mobility through the use of less polluting vehicles.
In the plenary session held this Thursday, Yaiza updated the fiscal ordinance regulating the tax on mechanically driven vehicles (road tax) to adapt the bonus applied to hybrid and electric engines to the new DGT regulations, as this will make it easier to grant them automatically to new registrations. The program detects them automatically and there is no need to review the technical specifications.
