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Ukraine is not ready to launch electric taxi cars. Transflot CEO Viktor Fedosyuk said that while the technology has not reached the point of using electric vehicles in commercial terms.

Infrastructure in Ukraine is not ready to run electric cars, taxis. About this in an interview with Delo.ua said the CEO of Transflot Viktor Fedosyuk.

“So far we are not moving towards electric vehicles, because Ukraine does not have infrastructure for 'green' cars. For example, taxi services in whose fleet there were electric cars were afraid to send cars to Borispol airport because there was a risk of stopping halfway”, - Fedosyuk told.

In addition, according to him, the service life of an electric vehicle in a taxi is only 1-2 years.

"Electric cars have a certain battery life. If you use an electric car for your own transportation, the battery serves from 6 to 8 years, but if such a car is in a taxi, then the service life is 1-2 years. The cost of the battery is half the cost of the electric car itself. Technology has not reached the point of using electric cars in commercial terms, "said Fedosyuk.

Recall, according to experts, 95% of the market is in the shade. It is believed that in Kiev taxi cars are around 25-30 thousand. This problem is everlasting for government for many years – may actions were taken to solve this problem recently. Recently government took some actions in a way of raising penalties to unregistered taxi companies and private entrepreneurs. Since last few years many new companies came into Ukraine market with completely new, official methods of work like Uber, Taxify, Oksi, Yandex taxi etc. They faced a strong competition from usual black market drivers, still their share part in the market increases rapidly. By experts opinion Ukrainian government does not provide efficient methods fighting taxi black market.         

 

 

Source：https://delo.ua/business/ukraine-ne-gotova-k-zapusku-elektromobilej-taksi-346482/