Vienna, from 2025 only electric motors for the municipal fleet
Vienna has decided the date to give the definitive go-ahead to for cars and vehicles with internal combustion engine of the municipal fleet, thus focusing entirely on new electric propulsion vehicles. With the new decision, the Austrian capital puts an end to financing for the purchase of internal combustion vehicles used to provide services to the population.
Starting from 2025, the municipal fleet of vehicles will therefore rely on different types of fuel. Let’s not forget that the city of Vienna already boasts several vehicles with electric motors: among the 3,000 vehicles operated by the Austrian capital city of Vienna are already there 125 cars and other vehicles equipped with electric motors.
The goal of ensuring C02 neutrality for vehicle fleet emissions is driving numerous cities to make decisions about a permanent stop for diesel and petrol vehicles. Vienna is not, in fact, the only city to make this type of decision on a global level: the various governments are currently working to define the important timelines for replacing vehicles with internal combustion engines.
Jürgen Czernohorszky’s announcement therefore confirms that the municipal fleet of Vienna made up of 3,000 vehicles, including trucks, vans, street cleaning vehicles will be completely converted to electric. As climate councilor Jürgen Czernohorszky points out, the goal is to ensure complete CO2 neutrality of the city’s vehicle fleet before 2040.
In the conversion to electric will not be excluded bus; Wiener Linien has recently started the construction of a competence center for electric vehicles in the south of the capital: the result will be the putting into circulation of the first 52 electric buses. A number destined to grow from the entire circulating park of the city.