[TeslaHK-Members] No more EV Expressway Permits!

[Sean Langston]

This is tremendous! Just in time for the Model S!

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Philip Liang <phil at generalsensing.com>wrote:

> Mark you are amazing thank you ! This is AWESOME :)
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> Phil
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> On Jun 29, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Mark Webb-Johnson wrote:
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> We've been working for more than a year on this. Complaining. Cajoling.
> Pleading. Even got the Ombudsman involved.
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> Looks like we finally have a complete result.
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> http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201206/28/P201206270570.htm
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> *Hong Kong (HKSAR) - The Road Traffic (Expressway) (Amendment) Regulation
> 2012 and the Road Traffic (Registration and Licensing of Vehicles)
> (Amendment) Regulation 2012 will take effect on Friday (June 29) to allow
> the use of certain types of electric vehicles (EVs) on expressways without
> having to obtain expressway permits.*
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> *Under the existing law, registered owners of an EV must apply to the
> Commissioner for Transport (the Commissioner) for an expressway permit
> before he or she can drive the vehicle on expressways. A spokesman for the
> Transport and Housing Bureau said the above regulations were aimed to
> facilitate the policy of promoting the use of EVs in Hong Kong.*
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> *Under the new regulations, for EVs solely propelled by electric motors,
> if they are electric private cars with rated power equal to or greater than
> 7 kilowatts (kW), or electric motor cycles or electric motor tricycles with
> rated power equal to or greater than 3 kW, they are permitted to run on
> expressways without having to obtain expressway permits.*
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> Thanks for everyone who helped push.
> Mark.
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