China replacing nearly 70,000 taxis with electric cars to fight pollution

BEIJING – Almost 70,000 petrol fueled cabs in Beijing will step by step be supplanted with electric vehicles, and any new cabs out and about must be electric, as per a report by the National Business Daily.

The venture to supplant all the present petrol controlled autos is evaluated to cost taxi administrators $1.3 billion (9 billion yuan).

Approximately 67,000 of Beijing's 71,000 taxicabs as of now keep running on petrol. An ordinary auto is evaluated to cost around $10,000, with an electric vehicle twofold that sum, at $20,000.

Electric autos have a littler carbon impression than traditional autos, which would help diminish CO2 discharges in Beijing.

Beijing and its encompassing states experience the ill effects of devastating contamination, because of the overwhelming ventures up north. Recently, Beijing scratched off many flights at its airplane terminal and suspended transports because of overwhelming brown haze – and issued a contamination "red alarm."

As per a review in 2015, air contamination is killing around 4,000 individuals in China every day.