In St. Petersburg the Park service “Yandex.Taxi” appears Tesla electric car, which is officially not sold in Russia, according to the Vc with reference to its own sources in “Yandex”. Order electric car will be from December 17.
You come to the Tesla model S, whose value in the US is $75 000. The amount spent “by Yandex” for the purchase of electric vehicles, a company spokesman did not name, specifying only that it is “new cars with zero mileage on the standard prices”.
Ride on electric cars will be available to all users of the mobile application “Yandex.Taxi”. The client only need to update to the latest version, select the application in any of the available tariffs and to “rely on luck”.
In “Yandex” is called the purchase of the Tesla “experiment”. “The introduction of electric vehicles in taxi fleets in the future will help to save on fuel and will significantly reduce the damage to the environment and the noise level, which is especially important for large cities”, – declare in the company.
Charging station for electric vehicles is located in the shopping center “Gallery” near the Moscow station — the company representatives say that the chance to meet Tesla in the Central parts of the city are much higher.
Price for Ferrari electric car will be no different from riding any other model: the machines will be available for order in all classes of fares of “economy”, “comfort” or “business”. By “economy” in Moscow, the fare is 199 rubles for the first 10 minutes.
In June 2015, “Yandex” has bought two cars the Tesla to Moscow, “Yandex.Taxi”. In July one of them got in an accident. According to the company, in total, both electric cars travelled 47 thousand kilometers.
Electric cars Tesla in Russia, while only a few can afford. Accurate information about the number of Tesla in Russia. According to some, they are not more than 250. My Tesla is, for example, the Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Herman Gref, billionaire Roman Abramovich, the wife of the Minister of communications Nikolay Nikiforov and Director General Mail.ru Group Dmitry Grishin. Last compared the Tesla cars with the iPhone.
