AMMAN —
According to a representative of the automobile sector at the
Jordan Free Zone Investor Commission (JFZIC) Jihad Abu Nasser, demand on electric cars is
witnessing a significant increase, attributed by some to the increase in oil
prices.
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Abu Nasser told
Jordan
News that “about 4,000 electric cars were cleared in the past four months,
while only 1,402 were cleared during the same period last year”, adding that
“700 electric cars have been cleared in the past three weeks, and I expect that
number to reach 1,000 by the end of this month”.
President of the
Jordan Chamber of Commerce
Nael Al-Kabariti told
Jordan News that
“global changes, particularly those concerning energy and technology matters,
imposed on us a new reality that forced us to change our way of life”.
Kabarity believes
that “all Jordanians will own electric cars in the coming period if the
situation remains as it is”.
The decision to
lower the cost of energy cost the government a lot, he said, disagreeing,
however with “the government’s decision to impose fees and a special tax on
electric cars”, which “is wrong”.
“It is
unreasonable for the government to focus on collecting revenues by raising fees
and taxes,” he said, stressing that the government should find a better
strategy to deal with the requirements of the current situation and global
changes.
Mahmoud Abu Zaid,
a car dealer in a car showroom, told
Jordan News that “there is a
noticeable increase in the demand for electric cars, and perhaps the most
prominent reason for this is the continuous rise in the prices of oil
derivatives”.
Other reasons, he
said, may be the efficiency “electric cars have proven during the last period”,
and their prices, which “are within everyone’s reach”.
“The great demand for these cars, which increases
significantly year after year, means that we may reach a day when all citizens
will use electric cars rather than gasoline powered cars,” Abu Zaid said,
urging the government “to lower the taxes imposed on these cars, since the high
prices of oil derivatives have become a real obstacle to
citizens who cannot
bear any new financial burdens”.
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