"Developed by a Mr Walter Bersey in 1897, the Bersey taxi was London's first "self-propelled" vehicle and, at their peak, there were no less than 75 of these electric cabs going about their business on London's thoroughfares."

It didn't say how long the battery can last if the air-conditioning is on!!

@FMA: You could have calculate it yourself, if you where not a stupid troll: 48kWh battery, 2kW air conditioning = a whole day with maximum air conditioning on. 300 Km in a big city = 5 or 6 hours. If you use air conditioning in your trip you can loose, maybe, 1/2 hour or 50 Km worth of battery charge.

@FMA: You could have calculate it yourself, if you where not a stupid troll: 48kWh battery, 2kW air conditioning = a whole day with maximum air conditioning on. 300 Km in a big city = 5 or 6 hours. If you use air conditioning in your trip you can loose, maybe, 1/2 hour or 50 Km worth of battery charge.

Typical. A True Believer can't respond to what appears to be an innocent question that may be tangentially critical of his beloved AGW without calling him stupid and a troll. Is unnecessary belligerence a hereditary or learned trait?

Taxi drivers work 10-12 hour shifts, much of the revenue is to rent the car, their share being everything after that. On a slow day they're lucky to make anything at all because they still have to pay the full rent. Of what use to them is a vehicle that doesn't last long enough to even pay their daily rental (other than for the owners of the company to make a PR or political statement?

BYD, well。。。

@geokstr: If somebody keep asking the same stupid question found in all the discussions about electric cars, how should I call him? If FMA was not born yesterday, he can only be either a troll or a payed fud spreader! About your post: How can you pretend that all the world follows U.S. standards? Those taxis ARE NOT leased to each one taxi driver! Taxi drivers WORKS FOR the Hong Kong Taxi and Public Light Bus Association, a public company! Maybe they must work 12 hours a day too, but, if the taxi they're driving needs recharging, they can swap it with a freshly charged one. And the LiFe-PO batteries can be (a recent article on phys.org says should BETTER be) fast charged.