You lie The Future of VTCs in Barcelona remains suspended The law in the hands of the governmentthe company Capevi It remains steadfast in its commitment not to abandon the Catalan capital as it did. Uber in January 2019 After a decree also issued by the General State, which made it very difficult Business model of these platformsThis Tuesday, the company presented an agreement with Swedish car brand Polestar To merge 100 100% electric cars For its Spanish fleet: 50 for Barcelona, which will be deployed in the coming weeks, and 50 for Madrid, planned for the coming months.
It is not clear what limits the new regulations will set, although it appears, or this is the government’s will, that Rights and duties of various parties What’s new? Transport law in vehicles with up to nine seats: taxis, traditional VTC, VTC platform (Uber, Cabify or Bolt) and intermediary companies (such as Free Now)Despite the conditions that the text may impose, it appears that potential restrictions will not immediately apply to many of the licenses they operate under.
Minimum height
This is evidenced by the fact that the 50 Polestar 2 cars that will soon be in circulation in Barcelona do not meet the requirements. Minimum height 490 cm It was included in the decree approved in July 2022 (after the decree that “expelled” Uber, which returned in recent months). The VTC credentials, which still enjoy a four-year moratorium, were issued in the third quarter of 2022 by Pedro Sanchez government.which is known asAbalus’s decree“
This rule states that autonomous communities, or supra-municipal entities such as Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) can be created New Urban Use License. It gave those four years of deferral, a period that in many cases started later (which is why it is still valid) because it was activated in later years when the counter was at zero.
Uncontaminated
Javier DoradoCabify’s public affairs director explained on Tuesday in Barcelona that with the integration of these 100% electric vehicles, 82.5% of the fleet connected to the Cabify platform (the company does not own the licenses) will have Eco or zero mark“The number is 14 times higher than the average for the entire vehicle fleet in the city,” he noted.
Dorado admitted that the company lives in a constant minefield: “We have been on a long and turbulent journey for 12 years. In Barcelona due to regulatory obstacles that make it very difficult for us to operate. The President of Cabify also asked the management to Better infrastructure for chargers on public roads He stressed that each central training center “takes seven cars off the street, and they are much more polluting.”
Polestar has taken the floor. Pedro Barraits commercial director in Spain. He explained that the model purchased by Cabify (price starts at 51,600 euros) has a range of 655 kilometers and explained that its length is about 460 cm. 30 cm from the decree issued two years ago. And light years away from solving the taxi war.
