The taxi noiselessly covered kilometres of roads, and the cool microclimate in the cabin was like a continuation of the test drive of the general technical characteristics of the cars. This is an unusual transport, it is refuelled not with gasoline, but with electricity and is stuffed with modern electronics. A car tablet allows you to control the main equipment and all functions, including the climate system. There is also a Bluetooth module for connecting a mobile phone.

“Ten comfortable JAC J7 electric vehicles and the same number of YUTONG electric buses of the Chinese automobile industry are a gift to the city of state importance from respected President Serdar Berdimuhamedov,” Suleyman Atageldiyev, head of the Arkadag city bus station and auto complex department of the Türkmenawtoulaglary Agency, says. “Urban transport easily differs from its ‘brothers in the craft’, powered by internal combustion engines – excellent performance, modern look and comfort for passengers and drivers. An important environmental difference of electric vehicles is the virtual absence of an exhaust system, without which an internal combustion engine cannot exist. There is no roar of the engine coming from the muffler – traditional fossil fuel cars have been replaced by electric vehicles here.”