Bangkok is one of the world’s most-congested. We have a solid proof from Chris Hemsworth aka Thor that been on Bangkok road in 2018. In this video, we can see that he was really impressed in Bangkok’s traffic.
We can say that Bangkok city is the top five most-congested city in ASEAN. The average traffic speed in Bangkok during peak hour is 15 km/h or 8 mph. There are more than 100,000 taxi active daily on the Bangkok’s road, and they ran their operation eight hours continuously per shift.(2 shift per day) which mean that they generated a million metric tons of CO2 (yearly) in Bangkok.
Reducing more than 1.68 million metric tons of CO2 yearly
Thai taxi, Toyota Corolla Altis, has the average mileage 18 kmpl(kilometer per liters) or 3.1 gal/100 miles(refer : autosmart). The average daily trip of Thai taxi is around 300 km per day or 185 miles per day, so basically they will produce approximately 38.3 kg of CO2 daily, or let’s say fourteen tons of CO2 years per car.
This means 120,000 EV taxi fleet will reduce at least 1.68 million metric tons of CO2 yearly in Bangkok, Thailand.
That’s why the Phoenix Ev Car Thai stepped up with the idea to transform all taxi in Bangkok to EV taxi.
Changing all taxi to EV taxi = adding 165 million trees for Bangkok
Every day, all taxis in Bangkok are emitting 10,800 tons of carbon dioxide per day. One tree can absorbs an average of 9-15 kg of carbon dioxide per year. If we could change all taxis to electric vehicles, it means that we have added 165 million trees for Bangkok.
Pisist (CTO Phoenix Ev Car Thai )
We need to increase awareness of Bangkok people of the environmental crisis. It’s not just the government to solve the problem but the public and private sectors need to work together. If we do not begin to build awareness regarding to impact of emissions for all sectors, how are we going to reduce air pollution in Bangkok? Many years ago, people in Bangkok had to face the problem of PM2.5 which affected their health and also affects to local economy including tourism as well. Once tourism declines, it will effect to people’s income comes. If everyone still silent to the problems, what will be the future of Bangkok?
Signing the contract [120,000 EV Taxi] with thirteen taxi union in BKK
Mr. Sakornsak ( CEO of Phoenix Ev Car Thai ) sign the contract to deliver more than 120,000 EV taxi with thirteen taxi union in Bangkok, Thailand. Here are the list of Taxi companies in Bangkok.
- Pornpattana Union Taxi limited
- Arsarsamark Union Taxi limited
- Chareon Mueng Union Taxi limited
- Thong Molthol Union Taxi limited
- Bangkok Union Taxi limited
- Credit Union Suwannabhumipattana Taxi limited
- Ruamit Taxi Union limited
- Borikorn Patumtani Taxi Union limited
- Porn Mongkol Union Taxi limited
- Poompalang Union Taxi limited
- Thongkum Suwannabhumi Union Taxi limited
- Airport Union Taxi limited
- Thailand Union Taxi limited
What is the plan?
In 2022, Phoenix Ev Car Thai will deploy first trail fleet of EV Taxi, around 2,000 EV taxi for four models, in Bangkok and other cities, including uphill, downhill road on every mountains in Thailand. This trail fleet will run on every roads in Bangkok in harvest the data, such as the traffic, road condition, real EV range, and etc. Then they will use this data to improve their production EV taxi fleet for 2023 and so on.
The average new registered EV Taxi in Bangkok will be around 5,000 – 46,000 cars in next five years.
According to number of vehicle registered in Thailand, there will be 80,000 – 110,000 new taxi registered yearly, so Phoenix Ev Car Thai just add 20 – 30% of EV taxi into Taxi union to make a trail run each year.
Where to charge?
Station Charge in Bangkok and surrounding areas will be designed for each station within a distance of not more than 5 kilometers and Station Charge in other provinces will be designed for each station within a distance of no more than 200 kilometers. AI Cloud Computing system will monitor the amount of energy at electric vehicle and energy
storage of each station including distance between Station Charge and Electric Vehicle at all times to reduce anxiety during using Electric Vehicle.
EV taxi for $30,000??
First, we need to understand the requirement of Thai taxi driver then we can make a solution for them. Here are the requirement of Thai taxi union for the EV taxi spec.
- Range : must be more than 300 km per charge, so basically this will be 50 kWh battery or more than that.
- Price : the price should be below one million baht or $30,000.
- Fast Charging in 30 mins.
- Size : the minimum dimension of taxi fleet in Bangkok should be Mid-size car(like Toyota Camry).
Thus, Phoenix Ev Car Thai plan to provide a SUV sized taxi to Thai Taxi union with the price below $30,000. They will import these EV taxi from China because there is FTA(Free Trade Agreement) between China and Thailand, so there will be very least tax on the car. Here is the the prototype pictures of EV Taxi.
