New charging stations for electric vehicles have been installed in Lviv, city's mayor Andrii Sadovyi wrote on his Facebook page.
"New charging stations for electric cars in Lviv. Free. Oschadbank financing them," Sadovyi wrote.
As the CFTS portal reported earlier, there has been an unprecedented increase in demand for electric cars in Ukraine: according to data from the Interior Affairs Ministry, 231 electric cars were sold in the period of January-August 2015, compared with 59 in the corresponding period of 2014. That represents a 361% increase. According to projections by the electrocars.com.ua website, an additional 170 electric cars will be sold before the end of the year, i.e. there will be about 516 electric cars in Ukraine before the New Year.
According to Oleksandr Kravtsov, a Ukrainian electric-car owner, the reason is the opening of public charging stations. In particular, many of them were launched last November, when the OKKO chain of gasoline filling stations opened 38 charging stations at its gasoline filling stations in partnership with the Tesla Club (in total, the club has 50 such charging stations).
The majority of electric cars - 65% of the electric cars in Ukraine are Nissan Leaf - are used mainly for travelling within the city.
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