Scholars suggest that the government can consider subsidizing electric vehicle fares, setting up charging and swapping facilities, etc., to increase people's willingness to use electric vehicles.

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[Reporter Chen Jiayi/Taipei Report] In order to promote green transportation, the government is making every effort to electrify transportation. Urban buses will be fully electrified by 2030, and electric vehicles will reach 100% penetration by 2040.

However, scholars pointed out that it is difficult to implement the policy of "delay first and then urgent". It is different from other countries' practices. If it succeeds in the end, Taiwan may become a "special case". Electric facilities, etc., to increase people's willingness to use electric vehicles.

Zheng Zurui, an assistant professor in the Department of Transportation Management Science at Cheng Kung University, analyzed that Taiwan's progress in the electrification of transportation, whether it is urban buses, passenger cars, or locomotives, is slow first and then urgent.

Taking electric vehicles as an example, the proportion of new sales of electric vehicles must reach 35% in 2030, 70% in 2035, and 100% in 2040. It may be difficult to promote the approach, which is very different from the common international approach of "first fast and then slow". If it succeeds in the end, Taiwan will become an international exception.

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Chia-wei Chiu, chairman of the Taiwan Environmental Planning Association, also said that according to the research results of the Transportation Research Institute of the Ministry of Communications, if the goal of fully electrifying electric vehicles by 2040 is to be achieved, the number of fuel vehicles must be reduced by 30% compared to the current level.

Widely set up charging and swapping facilities to increase people's willingness to use them

Zhao Jiawei suggested that oil prices and the price of electric vehicles are often the main reasons for consumers to switch to electric vehicles. He suggested that the government detect oil price fluctuations. If the growth rate of electric vehicles still has no effect in the next three years, it should consider whether to subsidize the tariffs of electric vehicles and bring gasoline motorcycles closer. and the cost of using electric locomotives.

Whether there are sufficient charging and swapping facilities will also affect the willingness of motorcyclists to switch to electric motorcycles. Zhao Jiawei said that in the past, depending on which areas have a high penetration rate of electric vehicles, more power stations should be installed; Let areas outside the six capitals have the motivation to replace and purchase electric vehicles; the government can also consider setting up charging and swapping facilities at gas stations or public transportation nodes to improve convenience.