"Of course, abroad people are working on a battery-powered car with basically the same functions as a gasoline-powered vehicle, but the cost of manufacturing one of the batteries they use exceeds NT $ 1 million," notes T.H. Yang. For example, both Germany and Japan have produced cadmium battery powered vehicles, which only take 15 minutes to recharge, but the cost of manufacturing is impracticably high.
「當然，現在國外也在研發性能可以和汽油車一較長短的電動車，但所用電池，一個造價都在新台灣百萬以上」，楊泰和指出，像日本、德國都自己設計出使用鎳鎘電池的電動車，充電一次只要十五分鐘，但是造價太高，無法實用化。