BYD e6 pure electric taxi: Bogotá Launches the Largest All-electric Taxi Fleet in South America.

If in USA, we a mature and a solid project like Tesla, in Colombia they talk about the BYD e6 pureelectric vehicles. In terms of efficiency there are a lot of differences.

But we can retain that, with BYD e6 pure electric vehicles in Colombia, the purpose of this pilot is to replace conventional taxis with the electric taxis and show a visible benefit to investors due to
the reduced operational cost of electric vehicles.

Connectikpeople has observed that, the 45, e6 fleet vehicles were all part of that country’s new “BIOTAXIS Project” authorized by Decree 677 of 2011.

“The import duty of hybrid bus, truck and CNG vehicles will be reduced down to 5% from 15%, while the import duty of pure electric bus, truck, taxi and private cars will be entirely eliminated”

According to a report from the World Bank in 2012, the economic loss caused by air pollution in Colombia is 570 million pesos (local currency) every year, and pollution from dirty petroleum transportation may have played a role in as many as 5,000 deaths in the country.

Henceforth the BYD e6 with a 5-passenger, long-range, pure electric utility vehicle powered by BYD’s core technology Iron-Phosphate battery aims help reduce these tragic figures.

The nominal range of e6 from a single charge is 300 km and can be fully charged in 2 hours (0-100%).