Fifth gear are normally great with facts but one thing that got to me, the TX1 was introduced in 1997, the TX4 was introduced in 2006. Just to rectify their small problem. Otherwise, a great video.
You can get it in other parts of the UK also. Bristol has a lot of the London style cabs. The point being why buy one given a brand new E Class is cheaper and more usable
The first moment i noticed this new LC on the streets up the West End i thought how wonderful it looked. It stood out instantly to me and i was thinking, wow, it looks like a Rolls or a Bentley 😀. I cant wait to b in the back of one i thought. Now fast forward several months and ive been in 3 and absolutely loved it. Ive been in 2 coming back from kings cross station and one of those was a gorgeous racing green, it suited the new cab the colour so much. On both occasions at KX in the cab queue cabs came and went and we shuffled along with our bags and i really wanted the new cab. On both occasions i was i think very lucky the new cab fell my way 😀👍. On another occasion i was walking out of a restaurant with my girlfriend we was up in town to celebrate her birthday and we was staying at the shard hotel my treat to her for being such a wonderful person. The restaurant was in knightsbridge and im sure u know the shard is a good journey from there. Anyway, a new cab was parked up so in we jumped 😀. Oh btw. On one occasion coming back from KX i got chatting to the driver and he was telling me bout the new cab and how it works, charging wise, very interesting. To sum up, great gorgeous Cab. 👍
Like the driver said if they are really worried about the pollution why the drivers have to paid for it? It’s all about the money 60k for Chinese volvo 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
ZD ZMi It’s owned by the Chinese now man. But they are still being run, designed, built in Sweden like they used to. Just a different ownership, same quality.
Geely motors may own Volvo Cars but saying that Volvo Cars is Chinese would be like saying that Chrysler is Italian because its part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Volvo still makes cars in Sweden and London Taxis International (LTI now known as LEVC) still produce they're taxis in the Midlands.
I’ll be honest I was skeptical when I first heard about these new London electric cabs. But seeing how beautifully designed they look. I had an immediate change of heart. Nice to see they kept the iconic look to it. 😊 Unlike the so-called New Routemaster bus. I mean no disrespect to the people who like them but the exterior design is god awful. And lack of conductors too? It certainly has no right to be called a routemaster!!! 😠
edy dj The new routemaster(Boris bus)? Yes they are very ugly,well the front exterior is anyway. And the current lack of conductors and hop on hop off just doesn’t give it the title of routemaster anymore. Like I said no disrespect to the people who do like them. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But I just personally think they lack the authenticity of the older ones.
These cars are amazing even the much older ones because of the back seat design. Used to ride them all over London with 3 other colleagues. Ever try to get 4 in a NYC taxi? Nightmare and likely someone had to sit up front with the driver’s detritus, gross.
@@jeruelleapigo3642 I know. But this particular episode was aired in September 2018. That's when I first saw it, be it on another channel though, not on Fifth Gear RUclips.
Exactly. Sadiq Khan is trying to make it harder for low income londoners to drive in central London and in 2021 the whole city with ULEZ. He wants private hire cabs to drive 0 emission cars and the original black cab is exempt from the ULEZ charge which is rediculous as you know how polluting it is. And what about a prius? That must be now seen as polluting.
@@AKA001 dude see you have already paid the gas price for the life time in the name of expensive electric fancy car and now saying "I have not spend a penny on gas" doe's it makes sense ??😂😂
@@ThushiMj yes you are right. I can drive an expensive car without having spend a cent on petrol. And I go from 0-100 in 4.4 seconds with zero emission each time.
:) the cabies will never swich to electrical, because they still not forced to pay congestion charge and ULEZ. Even if they drive the most polluted cars in town.
Pip Pipster - totally agree. You should see the vlog by the taxi drivers who have bought these cabs complaining the total lack of charging infrastructure, how they run the cabs 90% of the time on the engine because they can’t charge them.
There's another problem too. You can't bloody hear them. I've nearly been run over a few times by these electric cars because I'm blind in one eye and don't always see something coming when crossing the road. They need to emit some sort of sound. Running silent, they're an absolute menace.
Stop it! Your statement is both logical and damning to those people's tender feelings who want to feel special and better than everyone else who drive petrol cars..
@@schiltz371 lol. Also hilarious that the same UK who bought the lie diesel was better for the environment are now buying the lie electric is forgetting about the giant costs with infrastructure, initial car costs, and also the tons of super toxic lithium batteries which will decimate water supplies in the future. All a bunch of lies
60 fooking grand . Get fooked . 80 miles per charge . How many outlets do you think its possible to fit for 20plus k cabbies . Also being green is important but electricity production is far from clean . If i buy this im forced to increase fares . 60 large why dont they pay 40% of it . I like it but 60k thats a lot of 10 pound fares thats 6000 average fares . Thats nearly 10 fares a day for 2 whole years . But thats not including overheads. Bring back the horse and carriage. Employs stables . Cleaners . Provides minaur . Saves me 60 k .
I’ve only got one gripe bout the new cab but it’s a small gripe. There is no centre arm rest in the back, really disappointing that 🤔😢. I’m sorry but points lost on that basis 👎. Apart from that though the cab is still gorgeous and I very much look forward to riding in it many many many times in the future . Maybe hopefully they will put a centre arm rest in the back. Personally myself I liked getting in the old cabs and pulling down the arm rest to rest my arm on. I really can’t get why there’s no arm rest for passengers in this gorgeous looking new cab, it’s just crazy me thinks 🙄😂🙁. Maybe there is a very good reason why there isn’t and maybe someone on here to tell me the reason please ?.
Eww horrible, Non Plug In Hybrids need to go extinct. Those should of never been built. Majority of the traction torque should come from Electric Motors, not the other way around.
Your phone is Chinese, your TV is Malaysian, your fridge is Korean and your washing machine is Cambodian. Let me continue. Your Nike’s are Indonesian and your jumper is Portuguese... find an item in the house that is made in your precious “homeland...” your comment is at the core of why your guys are Brexit f#$&cked
Electric is not the solution. Yes it helps direct pollution in congested cities like london, but Electricity is mostly generated from Fossil Fuels and will never be able to be fully or even mostly produced from renewable sources to an amount that we will require. The internal combustion engine must stay, the solution is a different fuel.. Hydrogen fuel..
Hydrogen fuel sucks too. It leaks away, it's expensive, it still produces a greenhouse gas called steam, it uses a lot of platinum in the fuel cell and hydrogen explosions can occur. The US hydrogen vehicle market has completely plummeted after two hydrogen explosion in one week happened over there. Toyota has to pay dealers $25k USD to get rid of their Mirai hydrogen cars. However, there's a good alternative to hydrogen fuel and Li-ion: The flow-cell battery. Current infrastructure can be used with minor tweaks to it, it isn't flammable and the same liquid can be reused time after time. Indeed there's a heavy metal risk to the environment, but elektrolyte or fossil fuel are destructive to the environment as well.
"And we NOW know pretty polluting" as if you need to be a scientist to understand that black cabs are probably the most environmentally unfriendly cars on the road...whenever they pass by you can almost suffocate from their fumes
Come on British brain not that bad though it is electric cab but in case of electric infrastructure issues does not stopping your bread and butter 🧈👌❤️ another asking about price will be dropped gradually the more people will ride it and genaretes revenue.
Yeah, just dump the pollution of the electric generation on someone else, probably us poor northerners. EVs don’t reduce pollution they just put it into someone else’s back yard.
Very nice but at 60k why should the government help a self employed person buy a vehicle for work your self employed buy it your self. My brothers a plumber with the given help him a an electrician van for work will they fuck
Volvo electric vehicles. They are the most unreliable EVs up to yet as I found out after buying one then finding out throu the dealer's just how bad that are. Never again
So, when the British piss off the Chinese enough, how long do you think it will take china to stop sending spares to Britain for this VASTLY overpriced vehicle! The CHINESE own this, so if that’s what china is charging, I just can’t help wondering how much it would cost in Britain!!??
Is it the future? No it's not. Locally it's emissions free but the electricity is more dirty than using a car with three-way catalytic converter. Where are the ressources comming from. Yeah, not the future if you think about it.
50 miles on a full charge. Then your dragging a 2 ton dead weight around. Brake pads gives off toxic particles It's using petrol After 5 years replace battery's more toxic waste And they call this green. The only thing green is the mugs buying them.
Fifth gear are normally great with facts but one thing that got to me, the TX1 was introduced in 1997, the TX4 was introduced in 2006. Just to rectify their small problem. Otherwise, a great video.
This guy came from future and is like black cabs run on "something called diesel engine " haha😂😂
Imagine having the A/C on low because it’s the hottest day of the year
I like it a lot! Fully equipped for the modern standards. Definitely the future for London, and why not for all other big cities.
You can get it in other parts of the UK also. Bristol has a lot of the London style cabs. The point being why buy one given a brand new E Class is cheaper and more usable
Chatta290 because it's a piece of British culture. I couldn't imagine your country without it. But when thinking rational, you are for100% right.
Only Sixty on a full charge and with that price tag. They 3:18 are taking the piss
The first moment i noticed this new LC on the streets up the West End i thought how wonderful it looked. It stood out instantly to me and i was thinking, wow, it looks like a Rolls or a Bentley 😀. I cant wait to b in the back of one i thought. Now fast forward several months and ive been in 3 and absolutely loved it. Ive been in 2 coming back from kings cross station and one of those was a gorgeous racing green, it suited the new cab the colour so much. On both occasions at KX in the cab queue cabs came and went and we shuffled along with our bags and i really wanted the new cab. On both occasions i was i think very lucky the new cab fell my way 😀👍. On another occasion i was walking out of a restaurant with my girlfriend we was up in town to celebrate her birthday and we was staying at the shard hotel my treat to her for being such a wonderful person. The restaurant was in knightsbridge and im sure u know the shard is a good journey from there. Anyway, a new cab was parked up so in we jumped 😀. Oh btw. On one occasion coming back from KX i got chatting to the driver and he was telling me bout the new cab and how it works, charging wise, very interesting. To sum up, great gorgeous Cab. 👍
Like the driver said if they are really worried about the pollution why the drivers have to paid for it? It’s all about the money 60k for Chinese volvo 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
Nothing to do with it being Chinese mate. It’s called business. This is how capitalism works eldominikan25.
Volvo is swedish
ZD ZMi
It’s owned by the Chinese now man. But they are still being run, designed, built in Sweden like they used to. Just a different ownership, same quality.
Geely motors may own Volvo Cars but saying that Volvo Cars is Chinese would be like saying that Chrysler is Italian because its part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Volvo still makes cars in Sweden and London Taxis International (LTI now known as LEVC) still produce they're taxis in the Midlands.
@@TCBumby same goes for the Taxi. Designed, engineered and built in Britain
I’ll be honest I was skeptical when I first heard about these new London electric cabs. But seeing how beautifully designed they look. I had an immediate change of heart. Nice to see they kept the iconic look to it. 😊 Unlike the so-called New Routemaster bus. I mean no disrespect to the people who like them but the exterior design is god awful. And lack of conductors too? It certainly has no right to be called a routemaster!!! 😠
You mean the new one?
edy dj The new routemaster(Boris bus)? Yes they are very ugly,well the front exterior is anyway. And the current lack of conductors and hop on hop off just doesn’t give it the title of routemaster anymore. Like I said no disrespect to the people who do like them. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But I just personally think they lack the authenticity of the older ones.
60 grand! You could buy a gf with that much
These cars are amazing even the much older ones because of the back seat design. Used to ride them all over London with 3 other colleagues. Ever try to get 4 in a NYC taxi? Nightmare and likely someone had to sit up front with the driver’s detritus, gross.
Love the old design.
Beautiful vehicle, love mine and wouldn't go back!
it's been couple of years since, how does the taxi fair on daily usage? Still good?
Yep the future of london cab
I want a electric ..Ford Crown Victoria for NYC with the looks of the model from 2004 to 2011 from the outside but with the electric futures inside
Way cool! Bring it to USA. I could imagine a modified version for the consumer market.
Even though it's just a repost, I still loved it.
chillout1109 actually this is the new fifth gear
@@jeruelleapigo3642 I know. But this particular episode was aired in September 2018. That's when I first saw it, be it on another channel though, not on Fifth Gear RUclips.
Looks like G-Class plus some squished Bentely
Yeon-seung Cheong yesss i was thinking the same thing
Evs makes sense only if it is offered in the same price tag of a diesel or petrol cars
Exactly. Sadiq Khan is trying to make it harder for low income londoners to drive in central London and in 2021 the whole city with ULEZ. He wants private hire cabs to drive 0 emission cars and the original black cab is exempt from the ULEZ charge which is rediculous as you know how polluting it is. And what about a prius? That must be now seen as polluting.
Clearly you haven't owned a EV.. It is much cheaper to own one then ICE car, so in 5 years period it is cheaper to buy and own one then ICE car
Only if you live in 1997... my EV is $20000 more expensive than my previous car. But I haven’t filled an $200 tank a month for past 6 months.
@@AKA001 dude see you have already paid the gas price for the life time in the name of expensive electric fancy car and now saying "I have not spend a penny on gas" doe's it makes sense ??😂😂
@@ThushiMj yes you are right. I can drive an expensive car without having spend a cent on petrol. And I go from 0-100 in 4.4 seconds with zero emission each time.
Ive been in rickys cab in 2017/early 2018what a legend
What a great option for cabbies. Thanks for the video.
:) the cabies will never swich to electrical, because they still not forced to pay congestion charge and ULEZ. Even if they drive the most polluted cars in town.
They need to start production of taxis from kingsman golden circle.
..."It was the hottest day of the year, so obviously I had the aircon on low"
old london taxis like tx2 and tx4 have transit 2.2 eninges I like that fact about that
A basic range of 80 miles!!!
That is absolutely ridiculous.
What a ludicrous design flaw.
Pip Pipster - totally agree. You should see the vlog by the taxi drivers who have bought these cabs complaining the total lack of charging infrastructure, how they run the cabs 90% of the time on the engine because they can’t charge them.
There's another problem too. You can't bloody hear them. I've nearly been run over a few times by these electric cars because I'm blind in one eye and don't always see something coming when crossing the road. They need to emit some sort of sound. Running silent, they're an absolute menace.
80 miles....... The end
I was thnking , I’m sure I’ve seen this on fully charged , and then boom , same bloody presenter , he loves a good electric taxi he does
How about when it’s cold how s the range
Can it run all day long without recharging though?
No it does 60 miles tops if you turn on ya radio and air con or heating that wil go down! Poor
80 miles range. Hahha what a JOKE. Just,use gas instead of diesel and smog will be down
Stop it! Your statement is both logical and damning to those people's tender feelings who want to feel special and better than everyone else who drive petrol cars..
@@schiltz371 lol. Also hilarious that the same UK who bought the lie diesel was better for the environment are now buying the lie electric is forgetting about the giant costs with infrastructure, initial car costs, and also the tons of super toxic lithium batteries which will decimate water supplies in the future. All a bunch of lies
@@myaccount__7269 Super toxic lithium batteries decimating water supplies? Now that is a fucking lie hahaaa
that ep3 though at 2:02
I feel like some parts from a Rolls Royce were used on this thing, like the Display reminds me of a Roll Royce's Gauges
THANKS & Love The New Taxi to LONDON
60 fooking grand . Get fooked . 80 miles per charge . How many outlets do you think its possible to fit for 20plus k cabbies . Also being green is important but electricity production is far from clean . If i buy this im forced to increase fares . 60 large why dont they pay 40% of it . I like it but 60k thats a lot of 10 pound fares thats 6000 average fares . Thats nearly 10 fares a day for 2 whole years . But thats not including overheads. Bring back the horse and carriage. Employs stables . Cleaners . Provides minaur . Saves me 60 k .
I’ve only got one gripe bout the new cab but it’s a small gripe. There is no centre arm rest in the back, really disappointing that 🤔😢. I’m sorry but points lost on that basis 👎. Apart from that though the cab is still gorgeous and I very much look forward to riding in it many many many times in the future . Maybe hopefully they will put a centre arm rest in the back. Personally myself I liked getting in the old cabs and pulling down the arm rest to rest my arm on. I really can’t get why there’s no arm rest for passengers in this gorgeous looking new cab, it’s just crazy me thinks 🙄😂🙁. Maybe there is a very good reason why there isn’t and maybe someone on here to tell me the reason please ?.
Isn't that guy from fullycharged
yes it is
I thought it was a Bentley
Battery doesn't last long enough & more charging points needed but step in right direction
If you’re in london I encourage you to take. A cab and talk to the driver about this car
Quiet cars give me headaches lol
Bonded aluminium like the Jag without the zinc coated boron Steel rivets. Coventry built 🏴
All busses should be using electric technology as they drive around all day start stop traffic at every bus stop also.
Do they buy their own cabs???
the very first motorized taxi in the 1890's was all electric..............just saying :)
It's now 2022 and the savings have disappeared. Energy price increase has killed any savings
Didn't think there were any cabbies left
The taxi seriously needed an overhaul blokes driving round in a 50 year old design for 12 hours a dat
Tx4's used to crush my balls, no joke. The cab for the driver didn't suit a 6ft 20 stone bloke. And you had to drive a gold for air con :(
Je veux visiter Londres maintenant 😊👍😇
Nice looking!
The company that makes this is the owner of Volvo lotus proton
Wouldn't a normal hybrid be much more flexible? And cheaper.
Eww horrible, Non Plug In Hybrids need to go extinct. Those should of never been built. Majority of the traction torque should come from Electric Motors, not the other way around.
Death Trap. Someone walks in front of it cos they don't hear it and it deosn't look like it would pass a crash test.
I didn't know London taxis ran on diesel fuel.
I seen the new London black caps
So a Chinese taxi on the streets of London
Stop being so Islamophobic.😂
M Clare it doesn’t have nothing to do with islam dumbass.
M Clare is taking the piss. But with a user name like "ganbang midnight" just how much credibility to you hope to garnish?
Your phone is Chinese, your TV is Malaysian, your fridge is Korean and your washing machine is Cambodian. Let me continue. Your Nike’s are Indonesian and your jumper is Portuguese... find an item in the house that is made in your precious “homeland...” your comment is at the core of why your guys are Brexit f#$&cked
@Woody W Exactly, interesting Coventry is part of China now? Thanks videoman990
you taught me something new.
Is that a Geely?
60 grand is too expensive
Not if these guys are spending £20,000 a year in diesel
Plz give summary
How can this guy drive a cab( who's not a cabbie) But you got 3 cabbies behind you.
Focus on interior , steering wheel, gear knob , the middle part of the screen... *ITS LITERALLY VOLVO XC*
volvo xc what
@@isa9engineer430 xc 40,60,90 its the same parts
@@ctpx14 ok
Ohhh a diesel engine powers them does it.....Theres me thinking it was cheerful Cockney banter!
Did any one els notice that is the cab tested on car wow
Won't add much different on the next london taxi episodes
The only 3 white cabbies left in London!!
Pete is never wrong, well peter this time you are wrong! Too many over here scamming the system!
@Pete is never wrong still a lot of white people still doing the knowledge
Electric is not the solution. Yes it helps direct pollution in congested cities like london, but Electricity is mostly generated from Fossil Fuels and will never be able to be fully or even mostly produced from renewable sources to an amount that we will require.
The internal combustion engine must stay, the solution is a different fuel..
Hydrogen fuel..
Desantos123 Depends. Some countries use much cleaner sources of electricity such as nuclear power plants, wind and solar
Hydrogen fuel sucks too. It leaks away, it's expensive, it still produces a greenhouse gas called steam, it uses a lot of platinum in the fuel cell and hydrogen explosions can occur. The US hydrogen vehicle market has completely plummeted after two hydrogen explosion in one week happened over there. Toyota has to pay dealers $25k USD to get rid of their Mirai hydrogen cars.
However, there's a good alternative to hydrogen fuel and Li-ion: The flow-cell battery. Current infrastructure can be used with minor tweaks to it, it isn't flammable and the same liquid can be reused time after time. Indeed there's a heavy metal risk to the environment, but elektrolyte or fossil fuel are destructive to the environment as well.
Sort the taxi light out always looks on! Those low doors always hitting the floor! And battery life which is awful!
£60k?
I'm good with using Uber
BUT HOW WILL ELECTRIC CABS AFFECT THE FARES??
They should get cheaper.
@@dahorn100011 I doubt it when you consider the cost of the cabs will be extortionate and that will affect the fares.
When I go to London I wanna have fake taxi with hot girls!!
That's the future!
these british taxi reminds me of FAKE TAXI
you naughty dog you
jamdc2000 🤫🤫🤫🤫
Grab and squeeze that pussy 🐱 meow
Raj Choudhury i cant find u tho
"And we NOW know pretty polluting" as if you need to be a scientist to understand that black cabs are probably the most environmentally unfriendly cars on the road...whenever they pass by you can almost suffocate from their fumes
Volvo insides
BIN THEM
Come on British brain not that bad though it is electric cab but in case of electric infrastructure issues does not stopping your bread and butter 🧈👌❤️ another asking about price will be dropped gradually the more people will ride it and genaretes revenue.
They can afford a 70k car lol they make a killing and most of which is undeclared to the taxman. I know because both my uncles are black cab drivers
The future of "Fake Taxi" 🤔
Polution lets not speak about china
80 miles? Wtf thats nothing compared to its competitors
On london street
Yeah, just dump the pollution of the electric generation on someone else, probably us poor northerners. EVs don’t reduce pollution they just put it into someone else’s back yard.
Not fully electric!
Very nice but at 60k why should the government help a self employed person buy a vehicle for work your self employed buy it your self. My brothers a plumber with the given help him a an electrician van for work will they fuck
Poor black taxi drivers
80 miles range.......fail.
Volvo electric vehicles. They are the most unreliable EVs up to yet as I found out after buying one then finding out throu the dealer's just how bad that are. Never again
👍🏼
The meter will start at £10 as soon as tou get in to pay for itself lmfao
So, when the British piss off the Chinese enough, how long do you think it will take china to stop sending spares to Britain for this VASTLY overpriced vehicle!
The CHINESE own this, so if that’s what china is charging, I just can’t help wondering how much it would cost in Britain!!??
I bet fake taxi bought one already
Cabbies not working as usual 😑😑
I disagree about how london has the most pollution in the world.
Why do they have to pay for their own taxis? Are they not employed by the city?
No of course not.
Own boss
Well its pretty bad, and the range. .. Rubbish...
I'd buy a cheap car and drive uber
Can’t wait to see one of these on FAKE TAXI 🚕
5G powered driverless cabs are incoming. Goodbye black cab driver.
To expensive
Is volvo renowned for "reliability"?
RaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaa
No.
Maybe 40 years ago
Is it the future? No it's not. Locally it's emissions free but the electricity is more dirty than using a car with three-way catalytic converter. Where are the ressources comming from. Yeah, not the future if you think about it.
How in the fuck is an ICE cleaner than the electricity from the grid? I call bullshit
50 miles on a full charge.
Then your dragging a 2 ton dead weight around.
Brake pads gives off toxic particles
It's using petrol
After 5 years replace battery's more toxic waste
And they call this green.
The only thing green is the mugs buying them.