Besides New York, Hong Kong, Hamburg, London, Lisbon and other large cities in the world, green taxi services were launched in Budapest as well.
The leaders of the City of Budapest consider sustainable city development to be one the key priorities, and an important part of it is the development, as well as innovation of transport means, said Balázs Szeneczey at the press conference. He mentioned the development of tram lines nr 1 and 3, and the procurement of CNG-powered buses. Through green taxi services air-pollution can be reduced, taxi driver will be able to reduce their expenses, since with environmentally friendly vehicles one kilometre costs only one-third, compared to vehicles with traditional combustion engines, added the deputy mayor for city development.
The fleet of Budapest Taxi was expanded with Nissan Leaf five-door electric cars with high efficiency lithium ion batteries, it only takes 25 minutes to charge them, and the cars have a range of 200 km.
