Employees of a large Hong Kong company will soon get the chance to test-drive an electric car for free.
Appropriately enough, the firm is CLP Power, the city's biggest electricity producer, which hopes to gather data that could be useful in planning a network of facilities for charging such vehicles.
About 10 of Mitsubishi's iMiev four-seater electric cars will be available to all staff - regardless of rank - for weekend test drives under the six-month scheme.
Starting from August 21, CLP employees can sign up to drive the cars on a Saturday and Sunday.
They will be allowed to keep the cars over the weekend and drive them back to the firm's depot on Monday morning.
There will be no limitation as to where the car can be driven, but drivers will be advised to plan their trips beforehand and, in particular, obtain information about locations where electric vehicles can be charged.
CLP announced the scheme yesterday and invited lawmakers to try the vehicles, which are touted for their low cost of operation.