As a long term holder of KNDI, I understand your frustration, but If you had been following the China press, particularly yesterday and today, you would have realized that the long awaited approval from Hangzhou for its 20, 000 EV program is finally about to happen with KNDI as the only logical participant.

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In combination with the Hawaii EV Ready Grant Program and other development efforts, the rebates aim to establish the state as a leader in the clean transportation movement.

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It has risen fairly rapidly since then as details of the Hangzhou deal come out, and also as a result of a much bigger deal in Shandong province announced in late July, as well as prospects for a 100, 000 vehicle EV Hangzhou rental program in addition to the 20, 000 vehicle leasing program discussed above.

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If, during the EV-only portion of the program, you think you might need full engine power, there's a button for that on the console.

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Sprint TV's also included, of course, but it just hangs on 4G whenever you try to watch a program -- we had to turn it off and use EV-DO to make it work, which is pretty counterproductive considering how much better it could look on a faster, lower-latency connection.

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