Vienna, from 2025 stop to thermal engines for the municipal fleet – Mobility
The city administration of ViennaAustrian capital decided that will no longer finance the purchase of vehicles with internal combustion engines to equip its employees and to provide services to the population. The municipal fleet, from 2025, will be propelled by other types of ‘power’, type means electric.
Although exceptions will be possible to apply to some special vehicles for which alternatives are not available, according to Electric reports, Vienna will therefore go towards the stop. It is not the first city to make this type of decision globally, and it will probably not be the last since the environmental issue is now crucial for all large metropolitan centers. Vienna’s climate councilor, Jürgen Czernohorszky, explained that the goal is to ensure the so-called neutrality C02 with regard to the emissions of the city’s vehicle fleet. Objective to be achieved before 2040, possibly.
According to an official statement, “technology for alternative drive vehicles will develop to such an extent that fully functional alternatives will be available on the market“. Some of the approximately 3,000 vehicles managed in the city of Vienna are already on the road with electric motors and batteries: there are currently a total of 125 electric cars; others are special vehicles or trucks. The first electric vehicle for waste collection in Austria it has been in use in Vienna for two years; a second has been added since last summer. According to the Vienna University of Technology, the vehicle in question is producing positive results and the battery is not losing ‘bite’ despite seasonal changes and particularly cold winters.
The conversion to electric drives is also proceeding in the bus sector: Wiener Linien recently started construction of an electric vehicle competence center south of the capital. From there, in the near future, 52 electric buses will be put on the street as a first step towards a total conversion of the fleet in circulation.