VOA常速英语:Pay-by-Minute Electric Cars

There’s no point in denying it electric cars are here to stay, some of the London’s iconic black taxis will soon run on batteries.Admitting that the times are changing, the fossil fuel giant Royal Dutch Shell now offers battery charging at a few of its gas stations in England with more to follow.
市场已经承认了电动汽车会成为常驻的一员。伦敦一些标志性的黑色出租车不久将用电池充电。石化燃料巨头荷兰皇家壳牌公司承认时代在改变，现在在英国的几家加油站都开始提供电池充电。

We recognize that electric vehicles are part of the future of transport in the country and we want to make sure that we offer our customers choice and they have the option to recharge on one of our four courts if they want to.
我们认识到电动汽车是该国未来交通运输的一部分，我们希望确保我们为客户提供选择，如果客户需要的话。他们可以选择在我们的四个分公司之一进行充电。

However, there’s still some confusion about the usefulness of electric cars, they have a limited range in the recharging.The battery takes at least half an hour but with just a handful of public charging stations it may actually take much longer.
然而，电动汽车的用途仍然存在一些混乱。他们的充电范围有限。电池至少需要半个小时，但屈指可数的公共充电站可能需要更长的时间。

Are you gonna be able to plug directly in or have you got one or two or is in some cases that I found three or four cars waiting in front of you so before you’ve even plugged your car in for its first charge, you may have to wait for two or three hours.
你能直接给车插上充电插头吗？或者你看见一两个，甚至某些情况下，我发现有三或四辆汽车在你前面等候，所以在你把车插入插头充电之前，你其实要等两到三个小时。

In large cities such as Wroclaw, Poland, the future of electric cars maybe in car sharing much like the increasingly popular bike sharing.
像波兰的大城市弗罗茨瓦夫，未来的电动汽车更像会发展成最近很流行的共享单车

The reservation and rental is made by a smartphone, the cars opened by a mobile app, rental ends also by using the mobile app,everything without the keys to the car.With a price of about 16 dollars an hour, these electric cars will be cheaper to drive than the smallest gas-powered the rental cars.Together with no hassle renting through a phone app, they may become a good solution for city dwellers and the air that they breathe.
预订和出租是由智能手机客户端操作的。汽车由一个应用程序打开。租用端还车也通过应用程序，逐步形成无需钥匙的汽车租赁。每小时16美元的价格，这些电动汽车将比最小的燃气驱动出租汽车更便宜。通过手机应用程序进行租赁电动汽车，可能成为一个解决城市居民民生和城市空气质量的方案。

George Putic, VOA News, Washington.
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