The Lifan 620 EV, Electric Vehicle, debuted at the Beijing Auto Show earlier this year. The pure electric green machine is now in use as a special police vehicle at the Shanghai World Expo. The 620EV has a range of 160 kilometer, a top speed of 100 km/h and 8 hours charging time on 220v. A "supercharger", the word which will get a whole new meaning, can charge 80% of the battery in 30 minutes only.
The city of Shanghai is serious about the electric future, it plans a whole lot of pilot projects with superchargers on public places. Problem is that car manufacturers all use different standards so they canāt get charged on one another's supercharger.
Beijing tries to solve that by simply working together with only one brand, anyway, the police cars charge on the normal 220vā¦