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Geneva car show registers drop in visitors

The 83rd annual Geneva International Motor Show wound up on Sunday with total attendance registered at 690,000, down two percent from the previous year.

Published: 18 March 2013 12:08 CET
Geneva car show registers drop in visitors
Bugatti on display at show. Photo: Malcolm Curtis

Despite the decline in visitors, organizers of the 11-day show at the Palexpo exhibition centre expressed satisfaction with the results.

“With close to 40 percent of visitors coming from neighbouring countries, given their economic situation a net reduction in tickets was to expected,” Maurice Turrettini, chairman of the motor show said in a news release.

“The power of attraction for the most international of motor shows remains intact.”

The initial findings of a survey of exhibitors found them to be happy with the way the motor show went this year.

The show featured more than 130 world and European premieres of new car models, including the first look in Europe at the new convertible Corvette Stingray sports car from America’s General Motors.

A total of 260 exhibitors participated over a display surface of 110,000 square metres for an event that attracted 10,000 journalists.

Next year’s car show is scheduled from March 6th to 16th 2014.

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Lower Danish taxes backed for home electric car charging

A commission appointed to facilitate conversion to electric cars in Denmark has said motorists should pay less tax for charging them at home.

Published: 12 February 2021 12:41 CET
Lower Danish taxes backed for home electric car charging
File photo: Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix

The so-called Car Commission (Bilkommission) has recommended that all private motorists should be offered a reduced tax rate on electricity of 0.8 øre per kilowatt hour when charging their vehicles.

Formed in 2019 to support efforts to increase the proportion of electric cars on Danish roads, the commission looks into how charging station infrastructure can be developed in a report released on Friday.

A previous report by the commission was released last year.

Under current rules, private consumers are allowed to pay the lower rate for electricity for use above 4000 kWh annually if their homes have pre-existing electric heating.

Homes on the heating grid or with gas heating are therefore likely to incur costs of 2,000-3,000 more annually if they charge electric cars at home, the report said.

As such, the commission has recommended a secondary meter for electricity consumption for charging cars.

However, the system could face difficulties enforcing and administrating, it said.

The cheapest way to charge an electric car is by using commercial charging stations, which are taxed at 0.4 øre per kWh.

That charged has been fixed until 2030 as part of reforms to Denmark’s car registration taxes designed to favour electric vehicles.

The commission said that this commercial advantage does not encourage motorists who drive more infrequently to switch to electric.

READ ALSO: How will Denmark's new transport proposal affect the cost of cars?

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