Taiyuan will be the first pure electric taxi city in China, and the replacement will be completed by the end of July.

　　Xinhua News Agency, Taiyuan, May 21st (Reporter Lv Mengqi) The reporter learned from the Taiyuan Municipal Transportation Bureau on the 21st that all taxis in Taiyuan will be replaced by pure electric vehicles this year, thus becoming the first city in China to run all pure electric taxis.

　　Statistics show that there are 8,292 taxis in Taiyuan, which will reach the retirement age one after another this year. In order to promote energy conservation and environmental protection, from the end of last year, Taiyuan began to replace taxis with pure electric vehicles.

　　It is understood that the cruising range of pure electric vehicles replaced in Taiyuan City has reached 400 kilometers, and the market price of each vehicle is 309,800 yuan. After subsidies at the national, provincial and municipal levels, business households only need to pay 89,000 yuan to buy a car.

　　"Charge twice a day for about two hours at a time." Master Liu, a taxi driver who has replaced the pure electric vehicle, told the reporter that although charging shortens the daily passenger time, the daily electricity bill is less than that of 200 yuan, which is about 60 yuan less than that of fuel vehicles, and the income has not been greatly affected.

　　By the end of April, 3,000 taxis in Taiyuan had been replaced, and it is expected that all taxis will be replaced by the end of July. By then, the daily charging capacity of taxis in Taiyuan will exceed 200,000 kWh, and the electricity price will be three kinds of electricity prices, peak and valley, and the charging service fee will be charged at 0.45 yuan/kWh.

　　In order to ensure the normal operation, Taiyuan City is vigorously promoting the construction of charging piles. The relevant person in charge of Zhixun Parking Company, which is responsible for the operation of charging piles in Taiyuan, told the reporter that nearly 2,000 charging piles have been built in Taiyuan, and most of them have been put into use. In the future, there will be 20 charging and replacing power stations and 3,000 charging piles in Taiyuan.

　　According to reports, Taiyuan City is the electric vehicle industry base that Shanxi Province will focus on in the next step. According to the plan, by 2020, Taiyuan’s electric vehicle industry will form a bus, a passenger car electric vehicle enterprise and 5-8 key parts enterprises. The output of electric vehicles will reach 20,000, and the output value will reach 50 billion yuan. It has the independent research and development and industrialization capabilities of core parts of electric vehicles. At the end of March this year, BYD invested 4 billion yuan in an electric vehicle base and started construction.