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Mindelo hosted the signing of the tripartite Memorandum of Understanding between the National Directorate for Industry Commerce and Energy the German Agency for International Cooperation GIZ with the Center for Renewable Energy and Industrial Maintenance CERMI and also with the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training IEFP.The Minister of Industry Commerce and Energy who witnessed the event during his speech appealed to people to opt for electric vehicles reinforcing the economic and environmental advantages that these vehicles provide.For Alexandre Monteiro there already exists in the country a favorable ecosystem of reinforcement confidence and attractiveness in the introduction of electric mobility explaining that incentives were created that made the acquisition of electric vehicles attractive such as exemption from customs and tax duties incentives from the ProMEC the launch of the project to build public charging infrastructures and now the project to train technical staff for the maintenance of electric vehicles.Minister Alexandre Monteiro also reinforced the Governments strategy for accelerating the energy transition as an alternative for reducing dependence on fossil fuels reaffirming that electric mobility is one of the important components of the National Energy Transition Strategy and that the ambition is to reach 20250 with the full replacement of thermal vehicles by electric vehicles.Electric mobility is already a reality in Cape Verde and the conditions are being created for us to progressively have more electric vehicles in the national fleet. This is due to a set of measures taken since 2018 namely with the approval of the electric mobility policy letter the action plan and the mobilization of resources for its implementation.The Minister also announced that the Government will support pilot projects for municipalities that are already positioning themselves for the acquisition of electric school transport and municipal public transport.In turn the Regional Director of the German Agency for International Cooperation GIZ Ulrike Ebeling said during her speech that Cape Verde is an Electric Mobility laboratory for the entire African continent and is at the forefront of the transition.It should be noted that Electric Mobility in Cape Verde is being implemented with the cooperation of GIZ and is funded by the Nama Facity.This memorandum signing ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister of Cape Verde Ulisses Correia e Silva.
