Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/15
By: Wang Shu-fen and Evelyn Kao 

Taipei, Jan. 15 (CNA) Chunghwa Post Co., Taiwan’s national postal service, officially put 1,627 electric scooters into service Monday as part of a company plan to phase out its entire fleet of nearly 9,000 gasoline-powered motorcycles by 2023.

In line with the Cabinet’s new air pollution control action plan, the state-run company last year began planning to gradually phase out its gasoline-powered motorcycles and replace them with electric ones, said Deputy Transportation Minister Wang Kwo-tsai (王國財).

The air pollution control action plan, unveiled last year, lays out several targets: cut in half the number of air quality red alert days by 2019, replace all public vehicles with electric-powered ones by 2030, and require all scooters and cars to go electric by 2035 and 2040, respectively.    [FULL  STORY]