Electric taxi coming to Santo Domingo
The Central Nacional de Transportistas Unificados (CNTU) is the first transport company to announce it will be investing in a fleet of electric cars for taxi service and school transport. The president of the CNTU, William Pérez Figuereo said the company is working with Zero Emision RD that promotes electric cars in the country. He said the CNTU would import 3,000 electric cars from Korea. He says the company expects to replace at least 20% of their fleet, around 110,000 vehicles, in a five year span.
Pérez Figuereo expects to pass on a 30% savings in fares to consumers. As reported in El Dia, electric cars only pay 50% of the import taxes. Likewise, car owners will benefit from a 70% savings on operational costs.
Zero Emision RD president, Charles Sanchez says that the vehicles will cost US$18,000 to US$25,000 and the purchase also benefits from the trust fund for their import created by the government’s Transport and Transit Institute (Intrant).
CNTU will be importing buses and taxi vehicles to be used on the Los Alcarrizos, Km. 9, Bonao to Santo Domingo routes. They will also serve passengers demanding the service at supermarkets and mega stores in Santo Domingo.
CNTU says there are already 20 charge points for the vehicles in Santo Domingo, the Cibao and the East. These feed off solar energy so are not a burden for the national power grid.
Source: DR1, Eldia
Mar 13, 2019
Category: DR News |