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Héctor Barbotta
The council in Marbella wants the resort to have the highest number of places in Spain to recharge electric or hybrid vehicles per inhabitant. In all, 43 recharge points will eventually be installed, according to the mayor, Ángeles Muñoz, although
Sport
julio rodríguez
...play, and an impressive work rate from all involved. Their start was electric, and their aggressive approach soon bore fruit. Paulo Vítor broke free down the left, delivering a perfect ball to Manuel from the byline, and the latter’s shot could only be
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MARÍA GONZÁLEZ
A stay in hospital is never easy for patients or their families and especially so in the case of children, but a new means of transport at the Costa del Sol hospital aims to reduce fear and anxiety. Two toy electric cars are now at the disposition ... thanks to him that enough money has been raised to buy the mini electric cars. The Paediatric ward at the hospital in Marbella was presented with the vehicles this week. The head of nursing in that department, Rosana Medina, said the toy cars will not
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IGNACIO LILLO
New regulations expected to be passed in October should offer better control on where rented electric scooters can be used and parked in Malaga city. Once the regulations are enforced, scooter-users will be confined to cycle lanes and the road,
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CHARO MÁRQUEZ
The council in Marbella is continuing its attempts to create an electric-scooter-free resort, and set it apart from competitor towns on the Costa. This week, the town hall has sent out a temporary order on where scooters can be used with a view to ... a full bylaw being approved in September. The order makes it clear that these types of vehicles cannot be used on pavements, roads, hard shoulders, parks or squares. Electric scooters or similar can only be used on cycle lanes, paths used by bikes,
What to do
Antonio Javier López
For many years now, they have been escaping to that island at Christmas. It is a remote corner halfway between civilisation and wilderness, with fabulous beaches and no electric light at night. It is called Eleuthera, a small island in the Bahamas,
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IGNACIO LILLO
...controls on the latest fad of renting electric scooters, as many users were leaving them on pavements or against listed buildings. But the tougher approach has had a knock-on effect on the bike firms. 100 jobs affected Twenty companies are affected,
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IGNACIO LILLO
The Local Police, in collaboration with the traffic enforcement authorities, removed 27 electric scooters belonging to four different companies from the streets of Malaga's historic centre on Wednesday morning. This came a day after a municipal
National
SUR
...off last Friday and immediately created traffic chaos as drivers got used to the new rules. Under the city-hall-run scheme, only residents and authorised guests' vehicles can enter a large central area unless they are electric or hybrid. Until 2020
Local
Eugenio Cabezas
Of the nearly 30,000 vehicles registered in the province in the first ten months of this year (29,826), only 53 were electric. If the statistics provided by the dealers' federation Faconauto, from data from the Traffic Department, were to include ... other alternatives to petrol and diesel, such as the diesel/electric hybrids, those that use compressed natural gas, petrol/electric, plug-in petrol/electric and petrol/gas, the figure would still not reach eight per cent. "There is not much choice of ... electric vehicles available and the price is a major problem, but another factor is that most models also have very limited autonomy," says Carlos Oliva, the president of the Malaga Automotive Association (AMA), who says the announcements made by the