Zero emission zone: Plant Berlin comprehensive study
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Zero emission zone: Plant Berlin comprehensive study
From 2030, Bettina Jarasch will only drive e-cars in downtown Berlin. However, it is unclear whether a zero-emissions zone is legally possible.
Berlin. If Bettina Jarasch, the Green Party’s top candidate and current mobility senator, has her way, then car traffic in Berlin shouldn’t just be less. Not all vehicles should be allowed to drive in the city center. Although cars cannot be completely dispensed with, only electric cars should be on the road in the city center from 2030, according to Jarasch. “We should say that now so that people know before they buy their next car,” said the Greens politician on Monday in the RBB program “Your plan for Berlin?”.
Is brand new the plan to only allow electric cars to drive through the center of Berlin in the future, Not. The Berlin Energy and Climate Protection Program (BEK) 2030, whose update for the implementation period from 2022 to 2026 was only decided by the Senate at the end of December, contains the goal that “a main part of the city area should become a zero-emission zone by 2030”. According to the BEK, Berlin has also committed itself to this by joining the “C40 Green & Healthy Streets Declaration”.
Zero-Emission-Zone: Berlin should support the federal regulation
However, according to the program, it is not clear whether Berlin as a state can set up such a zero-emission zone at all. A legal opinion by the Senate Transport Administration has shown that “so far, federal law has not yet contained an express legal basis for the introduction of zero-emission zones by cities and municipalities,” it says, and further: “In order to create legal certainty, the state of Berlin is committed to a corresponding, clarifying federal regulation.” At the same time, planning for a zero-emissions zone is to be pushed ahead with, according to this, a task force and a “comprehensive feasibility study” are planned, which should be available by mid-2024.
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In 2022, the Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg is expected to register a good 36,000 cars with alternative drives in Berlin, which corresponds to around 55 percent of all newly registered cars. Almost 10,500 cars have a pure electric motor, more than twice as many – 25,230 – have a hybrid drive. As of the end of October 2022, vehicles with purely electric drives accounted for just under two percent of all cars in Berlin.
In order to do justice to the growing number of electric vehicles, the charging infrastructure in Berlin be built. The Berliner Stadtwerke are to build 1,800 charging points in public spaces by 2030. That would almost double the previous number – most recently there were around 2000 publicly accessible charging points in Berlin; the Berliner Stadtwerke operate a good 1,000 of them. However, availability is still low, especially in the outskirts. In Reinickendorf there were only 47 public charging points at the beginning of October, compared to 350 in Mitte.