According to Tasnim News Agency, Hasan Karimi Senjari, director of the electric vehicle project of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade, said in a radio interview: Currently, 2,500 electric cars and taxis have been cleared through customs, and in the next three months, 8,000 to 10,000 electric vehicles, some of which are being transported and cleared through customs and are subject to transfer.
He said: The total number of passenger cars that will be put on the market in the next three months is between 8,000 and 10,000.
Karimi Senjari said: An electric car saves about 8-10 thousand liters of gasoline compared to a gasoline car, because electricity can be obtained from renewable sources, but gasoline cannot be obtained from other sources.
He said: If we want to produce electricity with fossil fuels, we can eliminate the source of pollution outside the cities and taxis will not produce pollution in the city.
The director of the electric vehicle project of the Ministry of Mining and Trade said: Here we should provide subsidies and help to taxi drivers, and the government will give part of the profits obtained from savings to taxi drivers for free. Taxi. .
He said: “The Ministry of Security is always looking to create a culture and institutionalize this issue, but when we equip the public transport fleet with electric cars, we need to develop charging stations. If charging conditions are available, our citizens are interested in driving. an electric car." . Some people want to buy an imported car, but we can do it with an electric car. An important part of the electric car should be the public transportation provider and a part should be allocated to people.