Government gives green light to new car charging points

The government moved on Wednesday to allow existing petrol stations to install electric vehicle charging points.

The move, amending a pre-existing law regarding the construction of petrol stations, is aimed at increasing the number of electric vehicle charging points on Cypriot roads.

Deputy government spokeswoman Doxa Komodromou said the goal of the new law is to “promote electromobility in Cyprus”.

She added that the government “is promoting the use of electrical energy as a fuel for travel for the future so that consumers will have the possibility to refuel their vehicles at accessible public and private parking spaces”.

Meanwhile, the transport ministry announced the purchase of 32 electric vehicles to be used by the department of public works.

The combined cost of the vehicles was more than a million euros, and according to the government have been bought “to promote a reduction in greenhouse emissions and other pollution in the atmosphere”.