Including 5 closely related terms such as electric vehicles, electric vehicle, and electric car.
… to provide sufficient mitigation, this may not be practicable or the costs may be prohibitive. Some developments will need to be carefully considered where housing and employment uses are located close together. Adequacy of policies to require developers to make provision for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, including the types of fast or slow charging, and the potential…
…: • Prioritising development in areas with access to services and walking/cycling routes to reduce need to travel by private car (Policy SD2); • Encouraging new developments to provide sufficient walking and cycling infrastructure (Policy T1); • Encouraging the development of electric car charging infrastructure (Policy T10); and • Requiring the assessment of air quality impacts in transport…
… transport and set back other initiatives to reduce private car use, which may have adverse air quality impacts in the shorter term. This would become less of an issue over the longer term where NO2 concentrations would be expected to be much lower than current levels due to the much higher proportion of electric vehicles in use10. Although the policies place obligations on the developments…
… vehicles such as private cars currently account for over 80% of the total particulate emissions from traffic, and this proportion will increase as exhaust particulate emissions continue to be reduced through stricter emissions standards. Electric vehicles (EVs) are on average heavier than their internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) counterpart and are likely to emit higher levels of particulates…