Electric vehicle roadmap update

February 27, 2020

Secretary for the Environment KS Wong:
I said we would have about a year to map out Hong Kong’s first ever EV (electric vehicles) roadmap. I said earlier that I described the framework that would involve the vision and target. It’s too early yet to tell you too much details, but we are seeing some other cities or countries setting targets, like phasing out the conventional fossil fuel private vehicles by 2040 or something like that. So, they are providing us reference for consideration in mapping out the roadmap. As I said, we will cover different kinds of vehicles, at least in the consideration process. Broadly speaking, it will cover the e-private cars, obviously, and then other commercial vehicles. Initially minibuses, taxies, lorries, buses are the obvious aspects in need of consideration. 

Then as I said earlier, there are three supporting considerations about the handling of batteries, about manpower, how to support the repairer etc, and then the EV charging infrastructures. 

So this is the framework initially in our mind, and through the year’s process, we will certainly engage the relevant stakeholders, so that we can have a pretty good roadmap for our EV popularisation in the long run.

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Secretary for the Environment KS Wong today said the Government will engage stakeholders in formulating Hong Kong’s first electric vehicle (EV) roadmap.

While addressing media enquiries on 2020-21 Budget initiatives under the Environment Bureau, Mr Wong explained that the Government will need a year to draft the roadmap’s framework, including its vision and target.

“It’s too early yet to tell you too much details, but we are seeing some other cities or countries setting targets, like phasing out conventional fossil fuel private vehicles by 2040 or something like that.

“So, they are providing us reference for consideration in mapping out the roadmap.”

Mr Wong added that in their consideration process, the roadmap will cover different kinds of vehicles.

“Broadly speaking, it will cover the e-private cars, obviously, and then other commercial vehicles. Initially minibuses, taxies, lorries and buses are the obvious aspects in need of consideration.

“There are three supporting considerations, about the handling of batteries, about manpower, how to support the repairer etc., and then the EV charging infrastructures.

“So this is the framework initially in our mind, and through the year’s process, we will certainly engage the relevant stakeholders, so that we can have a pretty good roadmap for our EV popularisation in the long run.”