Socially acceptable mobility

Socially acceptable mobility

Wolfgang Moitzi, former chairman of the Socialist Youth Association, is now a member of the National Council and chairman of the Transport and Mobility Committee in Parliament. At a meeting organized by the Federal Vehicle Technology Guild, including a parliamentary tour, he gave industry and media representatives insights into the work of the federal government, which currently also touches on various aspects of individual mobility. Since the budget negotiations were in full swing at the time of the visit, Moitzi was not able to present any detailed resolutions, but his insights into the current discussion were also quite interesting. Federal Guild Master Roman Keglovits-Ackerer, who took part in the high-level meeting as well as the Vienna State Guild Master Emin Yilmaz and specialist group manager Leonhard Palden, asked Moitzi, among other things, about future legal steering measures in the area of ​​drive technology. After all, the planned phase-out of combustion engines is currently under discussion in the EU, and subsidies for the purchase of electric cars are being gradually reduced. However, both retailers and workshops urgently need planning security, says Keglovits-Ackerer.

Expansion of infrastructure

According to Wolfgang Moitzi, the current registration figures show that sales of electric cars are not collapsing even without purchase subsidies, on the contrary. In order to accelerate the change in drive technology, which should ultimately benefit the country's CO2 balance, a comprehensive expansion of the charging infrastructure and transparent pricing of charging tariffs would, in his opinion, have significantly greater effects. For SPÖ MP Moitzi there is no question: “All those who do not have their own garage with a photovoltaic system on the roof must also benefit from future e-mobility funding.”