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southern + september 19 news, guangdong provincial museum underground parking lot prohibits parking of new energy vehicles, what is the basis? recently, many new energy vehicle owners reported to the media that the provincial museum's practice constitutes discrimination and hope to get an explanation. the provincial museum said that this is a requirement of the fire department.

sign prohibiting new energy vehicles from entering the garage

at about 10 am on the 19th, the reporter arrived at the provincial museum and saw a sign on the fence at the north gate prohibiting new energy vehicles from parking in the underground parking lot. the security guard at the parking lot on the underground first floor also confirmed that new energy vehicles and hybrid vehicles were not allowed to enter the garage and could be parked on the ground. the reporter noticed that there were still some parking spaces in the underground garage, but there were only a few dozen parking spaces on the ground, and they were all full.

all parking spaces for new energy vehicles on the ground are full

why are new energy vehicles not allowed to enter the garage? the explanation given by the provincial museum’s external telephone customer service is that there is a warehouse under the museum, which is different from a commercial parking lot. for safety reasons, new energy vehicles can only be parked on the ground. if the ground parking spaces are full, they can only go to nearby parking lots. at the museum’s information service office on the first floor, the staff also explained that there is a warehouse underground, where cultural relics are stored, and that not allowing new energy vehicles to enter the underground garage is a unit regulation.

mr. wu, the security captain of the provincial museum property center, told reporters that the museum did not discriminate against new energy vehicles, but because the museum is a national first-level fire prevention unit, it has high requirements for fire protection, and even the underground power distribution room must be specially separated. the museum has reserved special ground parking spaces for new energy vehicles. except for large vehicles that cannot enter the garage, all other parking spaces are only for new energy vehicles. of course, parking spaces are still quite tight. he corrected that there is no warehouse for storing cultural relics in the underground garage, but new energy vehicles are electric after all, and the important cultural relics in the museum cannot afford to make mistakes. the practice of prohibiting new energy vehicles from entering the garage has been in place for several years.

provincial expo says no discrimination against new energy vehicles

the reporter noticed that netizens on multiple social platforms also had different opinions on this. some people believed that museums were different from ordinary buildings, and some cultural relics were priceless, so it was understandable that they had high fire protection requirements; others objected that the regulations of the provincial museum had a pre-set premise, that is, new energy vehicles were less safe than fuel vehicles, but the ban on entering the garage had neither legal basis nor the support of big data and facts, and was contrary to the national policy of vigorously developing new energy vehicles.

(source: southern +)