According to the Phnom Penh Post, CEO Vincent Calzaroni said he had signed a memorandum of understanding with the administrator of Angkor Wat, Apsara Authority, on launching the service in the near future. The vehicles are open-sided affairs with an appearance something like a Mini-Moke and can carry three adult passengers.
Mr Calzaroni said the vehicles were developed by parent company Bollore Group and have been utilised on ride-shares in France. He continued by saying green cars were the way forward in preserving Earth and BluE-Mobility was doing its bit by encouraging the use of them at cultural and historic monuments.
He noted that if the Angkor Wat experiment proved a success, the plan was to introduce similar services in Rome and the French city of La Rochelle. He finished off by saying that as the daily rental fee for the new sightseeing vehicles was likely to be set at US$80 a day, the service would be aimed at affluent tourists to start off with.
French firm to start electric taxis at Angkor Wat
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A French company has announced it will launch an electric car taxi service at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Temple complex. The CEO of BluE-Mobility says the firm will provide environmentally-friendly vehicles for sightseeing at the temple city which are capable of travelling up to 300kms on one charge of their batteries.