Through the “My Electric Taxi” program of Chile’s Ministry of Energy, drivers can obtain significant financing for electric vehicles.
The Energy Sustainability Agency sponsors this plan that seeks to provide concrete support so that owners of basic cabs and urban buses can change their work vehicles for an electric one, with a co-financing of 12 million and up to 16 million pesos for the acquisition of electric cars.
In its first stage, the program achieved the replacement of 50 combustion vehicles used as basic cabs for electric vehicles in Santiago, including the delivery and installation of a residential charger in the home at zero cost for the beneficiary.
The second version of the Mi Taxi Eléctrico program is currently being implemented and provides benefits for up to 80 basic cabs, executive cabs or urban collective cabs. As a novelty, the regions of Valparaíso, Metropolitana, Biobío, La Araucanía, Los Ríos and Aysén were included.
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Affordable Price
Mi Taxi Eléctrico offers different options for drivers who wish to join.
In the list, the vehicle with the lowest final price for the user is the Dongfeng S50 EV, an electric car whose cab version is priced at $10,231,200 thanks to a co-financing of $15,668,800 (official price of $25,900,000).
The sedan of the Chinese brand represented by the Cidef Group has an electric motor with a power of 120 kW, and a ternary lithium battery with a capacity of 57.2 kWh, for a top speed of 150 km / h and an acceleration of 0 to 100 km of 11 seconds.
Thanks to this powertrain, it is capable of covering 291.7 km on a single charge.
