Clean energy conversion a key global trend

For Vietnam, green transportation was an urgent requirement to build green and smart cities, experts have said. — VNA/VNS

HANOI: Believing that green energy conversion is a key trend as the world adapts to climate change and moves towards sustainable development, Vietnam aims to bring net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.

Ideally, this would mean that all means of transport would use green energy.

For Vietnam, green transportation was also an urgent requirement to build green and smart cities, experts have said.

The transport sector aims to gradually limit and stop the production, assembly and import of cars and motorbikes using fossil fuels by 2040.

By 2050, all motor vehicles and drivers will use electricity and green energy. Therefore, developing charging stations is essential.

Electric vehicles are considered the transportation industry’s future as people in big cities increasingly favour this. Transport Ministry statistics show that more than 20,000 electric cars were used nationwide last year.

However, the number of charging stations on the road is not enough to meet the needs of electric vehicles.

The largest charging station system is VinFast, which has more than 150,000 ports for both motorbikes and cars. It is located in parking lots, bus stations, shopping centres and gas stations. Besides these stations, people mainly charge their vehicles at home.

At a workshop on promoting energy transition and building policies to invest in charging stations in Vietnam organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), professor Wilmar Matinez, UNDP electric energy research expert, said that in Vietnam, the concept of electric cars was still new.

The number of vehicles using green energy is still low compared to those using fossil fuels. This is also why electric charging stations on roads, especially highways, are less common than in other countries. — Viet Nam News/ANN