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Hong Kong expresses interest for the sustainable mobility solution proposed by HIRIKO

The Chinese autonomous region of Hong Kong is interested in knowing the possibilities that the sustainable mobility model presented by “HIRIKO, driving mobility” offers to solve traffic and pollution-related problems. It is for this purpose that it will be carrying out a study for the implantation and development of the electric car within the future system of sustainable transports in that city. Also, this Asian capital will be holding a Congress next November which will be attended by 40 cities from all over the planet that are staking their bets for electric cars. HIRIKO is invited to the event.

HIRIKO directives have had several meetings these days with people with responsibilities in the world of transport, climate change, the corporate world and universities in Hong Kong and Singapore. Linda Choy, who is the person responsible for the program of electric vehicle implantation and who is also the Assistant to the Minister of the Environment and Urban Development of the Government of Hong Kong communicated her interest to the HIRIKO technicians for her capital city “to become one of the pilot cities in the development of the Basque electric car project”.

The INTELLIGENT CITIES consortium formed by the MIT, LSE, InnoZ, Denokinn and in which “HIRIKO, driving mobility“ also takes part will propose, together with the Hong Kong scientific park a joint research and analysis project on urban transport mobility and sustainability.

The town of Singapore has also expressed interest for the HIRIKO electric car project and their idea of creating fleets for renting for the new urban centres, for institutional and corporate use and for use as urban private cars. Chong Zunjie, who is the person responsible for the Climatic Change Secretariat in the Government of Singapore, has also maintained several meetings with directives of HIRIKO driving mobility on the strategy to introduce electric cars into that capital city in South East Asia. This very week, Singapore is scheduled to award the contract for the installation of the first seventy electric vehicle recharging stations. “They have pointed out this is the first institutional impulse for private initiative to develop from there onwards” comments the director of HIRIKO, Iñigo Antia.

Singapore University has been collaborating with the Massachusetts MIT Media Lab, and especially with the recently deceased William J. Mitchell, the “father” of HIRIKO”- analysing the introduction of electric vehicles as a means of transport within their gigantic campus grounds.