Tehran, YJC. Ebtekar has said her department will provide incentives for the use of electric vehicle as another step to facilitate the import of such cars.
Speaking on the sidelines of the unveiling ceremony of the
electric car Sarina, Head of Iran’s Environmental Protection Organization Masoumeh
Ebtekar said that the organization is trying to offer loans and other
incentives for facilitating the purchase and use of electric vehicles.
The Iranian official provided comments on Tehran
municipality's new plan on gasoline-powered motorcycle bans which is still
pending implementation and added, "fighting air pollution particularly in major
cities requires the introduction of much stricter standards.”
CEO of Diar Khodro Manufacturing Co. Mohammad Taghi Khanlou
also told reporters that based on a number of agreements made between car
manufacturers and the ministries of Petroleum and Energy, electric cars would
be soon deployed in the country’s taxicab fleets.
"Based on the negotiations that we had with the ministries
of Petroleum and Energy, the Ministry of Petroleum has agreed to help with the
gasoline fuel of the cars and the ministry of energy will produce the charging
devices,” he said.
Khanlou also noted that the electric car manufacturing
company had a capacity to produce 42,500 vehicles per year.
In Dec. 2014, Iran unveiled a two-seater electric vehicle
built by a group of students and professors in Qazvin Islamic Azad University.
On Saturday, the Tehran mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned
that air pollution in big cities could turn into a national disaster if
necessary steps were not taken.