I've had a number of journeys in these in London. Two of the drivers said they average about 30 L petrol per week top up for the range extender engine. Just 30 L per week. The other big saving is brake maintenance. This car has a 21st-century braking system with regenerative braking. The old black diesel cabs apparently average six brake services a year. That's a complete change of pads/shoes six times a year. The TX cabs I took had all been on the road for 6 to 9 months. None of them were showing any signs of a need for brake maintenance. The ride over potholes is 100 years better than the old black cabs. The glass roof in the passenger compartment is brilliant for sightseeing when travelling through narrow London roads alongside skyscrapers. They also come with free Wi-Fi.
Everyone is talking about positive about this cab. Let me tell you about this cab. 1- range is no good only 50 miles 2- if you use heating range is 40 miles 3- The big is issues this cab( pulling left) 4- passenger hear everything when you talk. 5- if you don’t have charger at home you are going to waste your time everyday. 6- drivers are not saving money because in one hour charging time you are losing minimum £30. 7- when you use break cab is skip very badly ( raining days) 8- the biggest problem is not enough chargers in London. 9- An other things!!! You are buying very expensive cab but they are not even putting one 10mm spanner. 10- if don’t have driveway is not worth it to buy because you can’t waste your 2 hours for charge every day. So before you buy think twice. Do you think you are going to save money? You will lose 2 hours every day for charging this cab. That’s mean 12 hours a week. You can make in 12 hours £200/250 .
Thanks for a great review, lucky EVM for having the chance to drive it. The electrification of working vehicles not only has a bigger impact relatively on fossil fuel use but as you say it is a sort of tipping point for EV acceptance. When people see them being put to heavy use in taxis and vans then it gives the general public confidence. Think back to when the Prius first came out, people were sceptical of hybrids but when taxi drivers started using them they became accepted. Looks like you need a boat there in N. Yorkshire!
Jumped in one of these things in Westminster then got stuck in traffic. The driver said he did a morning shift, charged a bit during lunch then the engine kicked in late in the day: a great taxi. And a great idea for a van: I keep getting told that the ULEZ zones are going to cripple business, but business has already affected the lives of many inner city children, and now there are going to be affordable alternatives (after years of warnings). I may be able to leave my inhaler At the office when I go for a walk to boot 😎
280 miles to the gallon? That's amazing. I'm a Dublin taxi-driver driving a 2013 Skoda Octavia TDI which does 60 miles per gallon. I wonder when electric London cabs become second-hand how much to be exported to Ireland after brexit!
@@timberwolf7240 Yes i remember seeing a black London cab going around Dublin in the mid noughties. But i'm talking about the one in this video the hybrid with 80 miles of purely electric with the petrol range extender engine. When they are second-hand they will be amazing value for money with 280 mpg.
@@timberwolf7240 i think that is the main issue for us here in Manchester too! We like the cab, there are a few floating around the city, but the price is way too high! I did hear that they're building a much more basic model for about £40,000. However, nothing is confirmed as of yet, so let's see what happens.
When Oliver Bridgewood (who is also from Yorkshire) from GCN reviewed the UCI Road World Championship course in Yorkshire. Said the weather can be a little inclement. Just before a shot of a bridge that was on the course that had been washed away.
Unfortunately the driver gets 60 miles in the summer and 40 in the winter. The TXE would be ideal if it was fully electric like the new XC40 Volvo with a range of 280 miles. Great drive but for hire light to small no boot space and not enough charge points in London only 73 taxi only charges points.
I am one taxi driver who is subscribed to your channel - but I live in Australia and we probably won't see the London taxi out here. We have the Toyota Prius, which is OK for us. We do more like 120 miles or 200 kms in a shift. Australia is quite a long way behind the UK when it comes to EV's. There are about a half dozen EV charging stations that I know about in the Gold Coast, a city of about 600,000 people. Hmm, that's a ration of 1 charging station per 100,000 people. OK, I know people can charge at home, but it shows how many EV's we have here. EV's are quite expensive too. Even the MG ZS EV, which is officially Australia's cheapest EV, is just under double the price of its petrol equivalent. But that MG would make a good taxi. Just not sure the taxi industry is ready for EV's yet. They would have to install EV charge points at every taxi base, which would be a big infrastructure expense.
I'd like to see where this technology goes over the next 10 years. I work in construction and I currently have a LWB Transporter. This vehicle ticks all my boxes, 5 seats for the family, large rear load area for my gear (with bulkhead) and the ability to tow a 3 tonne cherry picker. I did have the van on the weigh scales whilst dropping off some scrap and the van comes in at 2.4T for my daily travels. I can't see how any EV is going to be able to bridge these requirements
From what I have been reading this is what China going to only allow as a taxi in their cities and the van very meant to be good I believe China looking at them for mail delivery, if not another big company is
I guess fully electric taxi’s ideally would need to have at least 200 miles range, unless of course they are primarily just driven in the city then the 80 mile average is good enough. At the moment there’s quite a few ev taxis out there like the leafs in London.
What happens if it is to be double shifted eg two twelve hour shifts and it’s winter you will need the heater running for driver and the fares ,how long will the battery last then.
Not much point asking taxi drivers if they want one or other electric vehicle as a number of cities are going to require them to change shortly, Leeds for example are going to have a zone system similar to London. They have schemes to assist with the change. How much help is probably another issue, but the changes will be here end of 2020 into 2021/2022 by the look of it.
@@ElectricVehicleMan what I meant but didn't explain properly was that the cities are phase one and within a couple of years everywhere else is to follow. This may even be accelerated as there are now calls to complete the process by 2030 in line with Scotland. There's also a push for 2025. The target of 2040 is looking unrealistic due to rising political pressure. The political wheels are turning already and will accelerate as more climate change data emerges influencing the political debate. The key years for the ev shift is looking as you have previously indicated as 2021/22 with VAG group new EVs emerging on the market. The interesting part will be what happens in the second hand market and financial options where the mass shift must happen. I suspect that financial instruments such as leasing and contract hire will become the norm for both new and second hand. Why not something like the mobile phone market? We live in interesting times, as the old Chinese curse has it.
Looking at the news that parts of Yorkshire being flooded today as the river Don has burst it's banks. One of my relatives has been affected have you ?
I drive a 2012 Prius V And I'm a full time lyft Driver and this would be a really cool vehicle to have for my work but I don't think I would get approved on the financing and I also know that since this is set up to be an actual taxi it is prohibited from the social media based ride share hailing platforms because it is an actual taxi and we're not supposed to be taxi drivers were supposed to be people who are using our personal vehicles ascensional I to go help other people who need rides and were not licensed as taxis but if I could finding something like this electric vehicle with arrange like that on its battery and then a gasoline range extendere especially a range extendere that would allow it to do highway speeds would be very nice Unfortunately I can't have this because even though I am Essentially a taxi driver for a living I'm not an actual taxi driver and the platform I am on would not allow it they wouldn't even activate it for use because it's specifically designed to be a taxi and were not allowed to use passenger vans they can carry more than 9 people old police cars or taxis on the social media based right share platforms if I could get away with this thing I might actually try to buy one and use it for my work I don't think it would cost Me Too! Much more than my 2012 tota to ensure and it would definitely get a lot better fuel economy then the tota as well I would probably find based on my needs and the fact that I do about a 200 mile day that and probably burning about a gallon of fuel A-day getting on average 200 miles per gallon Maybe even a total of 2 gallons of fuel A-day still that's twice the fuel economy my Toyota gets.
Why is the range so poor it is more like 60miles on electric when kia have a eniro which does 282 miles on one charge! The new nissan taxi which is disgusting only does 140 miles in one charge and it is fully electric that is not enough I have had job from central london to southampton, hemel hempstead far out into kent what do I do turn the work down?
London2017 Gooner For one it’s not 4x4. And two it’s not a bespoke low production 6 seat taxi. You’re comparing completely different cars just because they’re electric? Would you compare a London Taxi Diesel with a petrol Kia? Of course not that would be ridiculous!
If you live in Yorkshire and do not like rain, it is time to move South! If you have lived in God's country all your life, then you obviously like rain as well as sun. ;-)
Thanks. This is, arguably a more important electric car than others you have reviewed for health and sustainability. Now... looking forward of your review of an electric articulated city bus.
Oi oi savaloy, luv one of them guvnor, but the trouble and strife (wife) says she would rather use her plates of meat to get araarnd . So for now me old squire, so I'm off for a Ruby Murray, and a cup of Rosie Lee. 👍👍
..supposed to have released it last year, my company were looking at it(2-300 vans worth)...but they bottled it and their corporate PR has been shockingly poor.. they pointblank ignored a number of our fleet managers e-mails...
Agreed. It would make a brilliant family car. Two front seats, remove the divider, two "middle" seats, and, as you said, fold-down rear seats. I'd buy it!
Here's Johnny, nice cab. It massive, 3 seats wide I assume the designer knows it will fit down the small streets of the UK. As you say it a delivery truck. As for range, I work in Coventry, the home of LEVC (Geely) assembly plant and this week due to congestion I did 2 journeys that averaged 8 MPH for the first hour crossing Coventry. Rock on that would give a 10 hour working day. However the cab would no doubt be self charging, sorry range extending, to keep the heater on. London is even worst 6 MPH. To be less SARCASTIC about the state of UK infrastructure. London city have announced a plans to install a charging network. Major cities in the U.K. have low / ultra emissions zones and one even banning diesels all together. Good job LEVC for making this change.
It was scary when on national radio the HEAD of the UK's environmental department quoted the new London taxi as its first ZERO EMMISION vehicle....if only I had the time to call in and RAGE! it must hurt to NOT know that a BEV, REV or even PHEV is...:(
This looks like a fantastic family car taking the kids to their sports giving their friends a lift to school, going shopping stacks of room and easy access, but then i guess if you had several children you would not have the money to buy one, and you are right , every time you demonstrate a different car it is raining over there. you should come over here we could do with some rain
could you give more detail on the range extender. I suppose as more cities ban diesels it's inevitable these vehicles will appear, about time really also government should help these businesses to set up. I work for a funeral business and nearly all the journeys are very short but when I suggested them getting electric vehicles afraid it fell on deaf ears, and this was a national company with multi million pound turnover
Test test if its anything representing the build quality of the drivers I have spoken too you wouldn't want it. I ran a TX2 in the early 2000's and it broke down every and I mean EVERY week! I would personally only rent this vehicle leave the issues to the renters I'd never purchase one.
@@TestTest-eb8jr if you ever considered getting one do all you're homework. If only I had done mine could have saved me thousands of £££s of being off the road. I appreciate this isn't built by LTI but I'm still hearing of plenty of faults from new. Cheers and good luck!
No.... FEV with a range extender, it is basically a generator running in its most efficient zone charging the batteries not driving the wheels, this is not a hybrid vehicle, the wheels are being driven via the batteries and electric motor, the range extender holds the battery at a certain state of charge...
A range extender is not a hybrid...... the battery is being directly charged or more accurately being held at a certain state of charge by the extender which in turn is a genset, keeping it in it's most economical operating zone making it more efficient, rather than a motor driving wheels going in and out of it's efficiency range. The REX does not drive the wheels of the car at all, the wheels are driven solely by the batteries and electric motor.
Not accurate. A vehicle is a hybrid as soon as there are two different DRIVE methods. That is why a prius is a hydrid. A petrol motor through a gearbox driving the wheels and then the electric motor also driving the wheels. The BMW I8 is also a hybrid. Reason being rear wheels on the rear 3 cylinder motor and electric on the front wheels. Two different DRIVE methods. The REX on the I3 can ONLY hold the battery SOC, it by no means can drive the wheels directly. Therfore not a hydrid... Saying that a vehicle is a hybrid because it uses two different energy methods is not accurate, I understand why you would say it but that is not the correct use of the term "hybrid".
@@johnchartrand5910 Sorry but I do not agree, the term hybrid came from the prius having two different means of propulsion, we can go back and forth and not resolve this. You have your say and I'll have mine and leave it at that..... There is no conceivable way in which ANY petrol drive train could ever get 180Km on 9 litres of petrol....... I personally know of a guy that owns an I3 that does 450Km in one go on a combo of battery and REX at 120KmH....... Not even he classifies it as a hybrid....
You're wrong. You're thinking like a petrol head...... These have even LESS maintenance. What is your petrol expense in a month? odderanswer says the guys he spoke to THAT ACTUALLY OWN AND DRIVE these vehicles have a 30L expense per week, you can't think like a petrol head when it comes to EV's, this will also probably outlast any other taxi cab...... Go and drive one and talk to the blokes that actually drive and own them. ROIT comes in the form of less frequent and typically less maintenance and lower petrol expenses.
I've had a number of journeys in these in London. Two of the drivers said they average about 30 L petrol per week top up for the range extender engine. Just 30 L per week.
The other big saving is brake maintenance. This car has a 21st-century braking system with regenerative braking. The old black diesel cabs apparently average six brake services a year. That's a complete change of pads/shoes six times a year. The TX cabs I took had all been on the road for 6 to 9 months. None of them were showing any signs of a need for brake maintenance.
The ride over potholes is 100 years better than the old black cabs. The glass roof in the passenger compartment is brilliant for sightseeing when travelling through narrow London roads alongside skyscrapers. They also come with free Wi-Fi.
Hard ride to ppl setting at the back too wide and too much wasted space
Everyone is talking about positive about this cab. Let me tell you about this cab.
1- range is no good only 50 miles
2- if you use heating range is 40 miles
3- The big is issues this cab( pulling left)
4- passenger hear everything when you talk.
5- if you don’t have charger at home you are going to waste your time everyday.
6- drivers are not saving money because in one hour charging time you are losing minimum £30.
7- when you use break cab is skip very badly ( raining days)
8- the biggest problem is not enough chargers in London.
9- An other things!!! You are buying very expensive cab but they are not even putting one 10mm spanner.
10- if don’t have driveway is not worth it to buy because you can’t waste your 2 hours for charge every day.
So before you buy think twice. Do you think you are going to save money? You will lose 2 hours every day for charging this cab. That’s mean 12 hours a week. You can make in 12 hours £200/250 .
I am looking forward to the day when London has clean air and the noise of diesel engines revving is gone.
You don't have smog so don't complain too much.
Typical hippie
I'm not a taxi driver, but that is the quietest electric vehicle I have seen on your, or anybody else's RUclips site. Very impressive.
Thanks for a great review, lucky EVM for having the chance to drive it. The electrification of working vehicles not only has a bigger impact relatively on fossil fuel use but as you say it is a sort of tipping point for EV acceptance. When people see them being put to heavy use in taxis and vans then it gives the general public confidence. Think back to when the Prius first came out, people were sceptical of hybrids but when taxi drivers started using them they became accepted. Looks like you need a boat there in N. Yorkshire!
You'll never guess who I had in the back the other day, only the electric vehicle man that's who!
Jumped in one of these things in Westminster then got stuck in traffic. The driver said he did a morning shift, charged a bit during lunch then the engine kicked in late in the day: a great taxi.
And a great idea for a van: I keep getting told that the ULEZ zones are going to cripple business, but business has already affected the lives of many inner city children, and now there are going to be affordable alternatives (after years of warnings). I may be able to leave my inhaler At the office when I go for a walk to boot 😎
Loads of these about in central London, very popular already
280 miles to the gallon? That's amazing. I'm a Dublin taxi-driver driving a 2013 Skoda Octavia TDI which does 60 miles per gallon. I wonder when electric London cabs become second-hand how much to be exported to Ireland after brexit!
@@timberwolf7240 Yes i remember seeing a black London cab going around Dublin in the mid noughties. But i'm talking about the one in this video the hybrid with 80 miles of purely electric with the petrol range extender engine. When they are second-hand they will be amazing value for money with 280 mpg.
@@timberwolf7240 i think that is the main issue for us here in Manchester too! We like the cab, there are a few floating around the city, but the price is way too high! I did hear that they're building a much more basic model for about £40,000. However, nothing is confirmed as of yet, so let's see what happens.
Not a taxi driver but as a driving instructor my 30kW Leaf is a working car constantly on the road in the day and it’s brilliant at it.
When Oliver Bridgewood (who is also from Yorkshire) from GCN reviewed the UCI Road World Championship course in Yorkshire. Said the weather can be a little inclement. Just before a shot of a bridge that was on the course that had been washed away.
In Wales, this is a normal day
I love watching Jimmy Somerville
talk about electric cars.
Rather un-PC in the current climate but I was thinking more like Jimmy Saville, "now then, now then, jewelry, jewelry".
John Joyce What’s un-PC about that?
YewTewbe no
@@louisbeerreviews8964 Tell me why? ruclips.net/video/yUnx2gOYHMQ/видео.html
Unfortunately the driver gets 60 miles in the summer and 40 in the winter. The TXE would be ideal if it was fully electric like the new XC40 Volvo with a range of 280 miles. Great drive but for hire light to small no boot space and not enough charge points in London only 73 taxi only charges points.
God I love your reviews way too much! 👍
I am one taxi driver who is subscribed to your channel - but I live in Australia and we probably won't see the London taxi out here. We have the Toyota Prius, which is OK for us. We do more like 120 miles or 200 kms in a shift. Australia is quite a long way behind the UK when it comes to EV's. There are about a half dozen EV charging stations that I know about in the Gold Coast, a city of about 600,000 people. Hmm, that's a ration of 1 charging station per 100,000 people. OK, I know people can charge at home, but it shows how many EV's we have here. EV's are quite expensive too. Even the MG ZS EV, which is officially Australia's cheapest EV, is just under double the price of its petrol equivalent. But that MG would make a good taxi. Just not sure the taxi industry is ready for EV's yet. They would have to install EV charge points at every taxi base, which would be a big infrastructure expense.
Yes I bought the LEAF 40kWh
I'd like to see where this technology goes over the next 10 years. I work in construction and I currently have a LWB Transporter. This vehicle ticks all my boxes, 5 seats for the family, large rear load area for my gear (with bulkhead) and the ability to tow a 3 tonne cherry picker.
I did have the van on the weigh scales whilst dropping off some scrap and the van comes in at 2.4T for my daily travels.
I can't see how any EV is going to be able to bridge these requirements
They can now, they’re just expensive at that scale.
From what I have been reading this is what China going to only allow as a taxi in their cities and the van very meant to be good I believe China looking at them for mail delivery, if not another big company is
Shenzhen is 95% all-electric taxi's (BYD) and the buses aren't far behind by all accounts
I guess fully electric taxi’s ideally would need to have at least 200 miles range, unless of course they are primarily just driven in the city then the 80 mile average is good enough. At the moment there’s quite a few ev taxis out there like the leafs in London.
I see one of these today In a car park I wondered what it was when it wafted past
Nice transition at 7:11
This really suits you!
Wonderful to see.
Bigger battery for airport runs in the Home Counties?
And vans
2:32 What Engine
What happens if it is to be double shifted eg two twelve hour shifts and it’s winter you will need the heater running for driver and the fares ,how long will the battery last then.
Maybe 60 I guess so the range extender would be used more unless they rapid charge when in break.
Won’t be a hot seat changeover, more a handover with it on the fast chargers for 30 minutes.
Plan shift changes for off peak times
Not much point asking taxi drivers if they want one or other electric vehicle as a number of cities are going to require them to change shortly, Leeds for example are going to have a zone system similar to London.
They have schemes to assist with the change. How much help is probably another issue, but the changes will be here end of 2020 into 2021/2022 by the look of it.
Of course there’s point, funnily enough a lot of people don’t live in cities. And why not discuss stuff.
@@ElectricVehicleMan what I meant but didn't explain properly was that the cities are phase one and within a couple of years everywhere else is to follow. This may even be accelerated as there are now calls to complete the process by 2030 in line with Scotland. There's also a push for 2025. The target of 2040 is looking unrealistic due to rising political pressure.
The political wheels are turning already and will accelerate as more climate change data emerges influencing the political debate.
The key years for the ev shift is looking as you have previously indicated as 2021/22 with VAG group new EVs emerging on the market. The interesting part will be what happens in the second hand market and financial options where the mass shift must happen. I suspect that financial instruments such as leasing and contract hire will become the norm for both new and second hand.
Why not something like the mobile phone market?
We live in interesting times, as the old Chinese curse has it.
Are the cargo and international versions still just promises or are they being made already?
Def coming.
Looking at the news that parts of Yorkshire being flooded today as the river Don has burst it's banks. One of my relatives has been affected have you ?
Two-Counties Dashcam No I live up a big hill. If I flood then the country is gone!
@@ElectricVehicleMan Naa everything runs into the sea down here. Hello from sunny Dorset.
I drive a 2012 Prius V And I'm a full time lyft Driver and this would be a really cool vehicle to have for my work but I don't think I would get approved on the financing and I also know that since this is set up to be an actual taxi it is prohibited from the social media based ride share hailing platforms because it is an actual taxi and we're not supposed to be taxi drivers were supposed to be people who are using our personal vehicles ascensional I to go help other people who need rides and were not licensed as taxis but if I could finding something like this electric vehicle with arrange like that on its battery and then a gasoline range extendere especially a range extendere that would allow it to do highway speeds would be very nice Unfortunately I can't have this because even though I am Essentially a taxi driver for a living I'm not an actual taxi driver and the platform I am on would not allow it they wouldn't even activate it for use because it's specifically designed to be a taxi and were not allowed to use passenger vans they can carry more than 9 people old police cars or taxis on the social media based right share platforms if I could get away with this thing I might actually try to buy one and use it for my work I don't think it would cost Me Too! Much more than my 2012 tota to ensure and it would definitely get a lot better fuel economy then the tota as well I would probably find based on my needs and the fact that I do about a 200 mile day that and probably burning about a gallon of fuel A-day getting on average 200 miles per gallon Maybe even a total of 2 gallons of fuel A-day still that's twice the fuel economy my Toyota gets.
Summer in England!!
Do you deliberately wait for a wet day to shoot these videos.
No sign of George, Fancy a BEV, Mate?
Why is the range so poor it is more like 60miles on electric when kia have a eniro which does 282 miles on one charge! The new nissan taxi which is disgusting only does 140 miles in one charge and it is fully electric that is not enough I have had job from central london to southampton, hemel hempstead far out into kent what do I do turn the work down?
Because giving it a bigger battery would cost thousands more. The range extender can fill in the gap for the few times it happens.
Tell that to kia there car is £36k 4x4 and does 282 on one charge why should I buy a txe for that price it is to expensive
London2017 Gooner For one it’s not 4x4.
And two it’s not a bespoke low production 6 seat taxi.
You’re comparing completely different cars just because they’re electric?
Would you compare a London Taxi Diesel with a petrol Kia? Of course not that would be ridiculous!
If you live in Yorkshire and do not like rain, it is time to move South! If you have lived in God's country all your life, then you obviously like rain as well as sun. ;-)
Never!!!
@@ElectricVehicleMan Good man! Now put your brolly away and get tea on lad. It's parky outside and I do not mean an imminent TV interview!
EgoShredder Wont be cold in LA! 🤫
@@ElectricVehicleMan I have been watching Blade runner again, LA in 2019 has continual rain!
sooo much of that dash is identical to volvo
80 miles on electric ...... lol more like sixty on a hot sunny day ( if your lucky)
Only does 50miles full charge 👎
Thanks. This is, arguably a more important electric car than others you have reviewed for health and sustainability. Now... looking forward of your review of an electric articulated city bus.
James Dubben like the Lib Dem battle bus
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/national/18019290.lib-dem-electric-bus-driving-green-campaign-says-swinson/
Oi oi savaloy, luv one of them guvnor, but the trouble and strife (wife) says she would rather use her plates of meat to get araarnd . So for now me old squire, so I'm off for a Ruby Murray, and a cup of Rosie Lee. 👍👍
Did you learn cockney from the Dick Van Dyke school?
The van version would be perfect for the Post Office as long as they organise the plug in charger facility
..supposed to have released it last year, my company were looking at it(2-300 vans worth)...but they bottled it and their corporate PR has been shockingly poor.. they pointblank ignored a number of our fleet managers e-mails...
I loved the setting set up if the back row folded up it would make it a small van as well. as a family mover/camper. Is this going to the us markit.
Highly doubt this will be sold outside of the UK.
It’s approved for use in Paris 👍
@@andytaylor6893 Approved for use is different than actually being there, but I think it would be great to see this get exported to other places!
@@pioneer7777777
Errr
Geely?
China?
It's going to be sold *everywhere*
Agreed. It would make a brilliant family car. Two front seats, remove the divider, two "middle" seats, and, as you said, fold-down rear seats. I'd buy it!
'I'm dancing in the rain...' would have been the perfect soundtrack for this video.
Here's Johnny, nice cab. It massive, 3 seats wide I assume the designer knows it will fit down the small streets of the UK. As you say it a delivery truck. As for range, I work in Coventry, the home of LEVC (Geely) assembly plant and this week due to congestion I did 2 journeys that averaged 8 MPH for the first hour crossing Coventry. Rock on that would give a 10 hour working day. However the cab would no doubt be self charging, sorry range extending, to keep the heater on. London is even worst 6 MPH.
To be less SARCASTIC about the state of UK infrastructure. London city have announced a plans to install a charging network. Major cities in the U.K. have low / ultra emissions zones and one even banning diesels all together. Good job LEVC for making this change.
Great review, always wanted a nose around while they charge next to me 😀
I think these are great and have loads of character. In fact they are kind of compelling for private users if you have a big family etc.
Only. Butterboys and muppets need apply.
It was scary when on national radio the HEAD of the UK's environmental department quoted the new London taxi as its first ZERO EMMISION vehicle....if only I had the time to call in and RAGE! it must hurt to NOT know that a BEV, REV or even PHEV is...:(
It holds its breath inside the congestion charge zone, then coughs its guts up outside the zone that's why some cabbies won't come south of the river
@@Mrflash222006 haha ;)
Any updates on your unlucky Nissan leaf ?
Ha
I am looking forward to the day they invent the umbrella HA HA HA
This looks like a fantastic family car taking the kids to their sports giving their friends a lift to school, going shopping stacks of room and easy access, but then i guess if you had several children you would not have the money to buy one, and you are right , every time you demonstrate a different car it is raining over there. you should come over here we could do with some rain
Great to see Europeans making strides moving away from combustion vehicles
I live in Bristol and think I need an excuse to get this taxi some where amazing
could you give more detail on the range extender. I suppose as more cities ban diesels it's inevitable these vehicles will appear, about time really also government should help these businesses to set up. I work for a funeral business and nearly all the journeys are very short but when I suggested them getting electric vehicles afraid it fell on deaf ears, and this was a national company with multi million pound turnover
Range extender is similar to the BMW i3. It’s a generator that kicks in and provides electric. It’s not attached to the wheels.
The Sun 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤
What about it?
@@ElectricVehicleMan are you that naive?
James Mawdsley A cliched joke about a taxi driver with newspaper makes you angry?
@@ElectricVehicleMan it's not the newspaper per se. It's that specific rag.
Is there (going to be) a left hand drive version too??
Test test if its anything representing the build quality of the drivers I have spoken too you wouldn't want it. I ran a TX2 in the early 2000's and it broke down every and I mean EVERY week! I would personally only rent this vehicle leave the issues to the renters I'd never purchase one.
@@FancyaBevMate
That's not good 🤔
@@TestTest-eb8jr if you ever considered getting one do all you're homework. If only I had done mine could have saved me thousands of £££s of being off the road. I appreciate this isn't built by LTI but I'm still hearing of plenty of faults from new. Cheers and good luck!
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PHEV ?
No.... FEV with a range extender, it is basically a generator running in its most efficient zone charging the batteries not driving the wheels, this is not a hybrid vehicle, the wheels are being driven via the batteries and electric motor, the range extender holds the battery at a certain state of charge...
Just another Hybrid
A range extender is not a hybrid...... the battery is being directly charged or more accurately being held at a certain state of charge by the extender which in turn is a genset, keeping it in it's most economical operating zone making it more efficient, rather than a motor driving wheels going in and out of it's efficiency range. The REX does not drive the wheels of the car at all, the wheels are driven solely by the batteries and electric motor.
@@GapRecordingsNamibia any vehicle that has more than one source of energy for motion is a Hybrid
Not accurate.
A vehicle is a hybrid as soon as there are two different DRIVE methods.
That is why a prius is a hydrid. A petrol motor through a gearbox driving the wheels and then the electric motor also driving the wheels.
The BMW I8 is also a hybrid. Reason being rear wheels on the rear 3 cylinder motor and electric on the front wheels. Two different DRIVE methods.
The REX on the I3 can ONLY hold the battery SOC, it by no means can drive the wheels directly. Therfore not a hydrid...
Saying that a vehicle is a hybrid because it uses two different energy methods is not accurate, I understand why you would say it but that is not the correct use of the term "hybrid".
@@GapRecordingsNamibia any vehicle that has more than one form of energy to make movement is a Hybrid
@@johnchartrand5910 Sorry but I do not agree, the term hybrid came from the prius having two different means of propulsion, we can go back and forth and not resolve this. You have your say and I'll have mine and leave it at that..... There is no conceivable way in which ANY petrol drive train could ever get 180Km on 9 litres of petrol....... I personally know of a guy that owns an I3 that does 450Km in one go on a combo of battery and REX at 120KmH....... Not even he classifies it as a hybrid....
Too expensive for the job unless you don't have a life, doing 16hrs a day.
It would take forever to get your money back.
You're wrong. You're thinking like a petrol head...... These have even LESS maintenance. What is your petrol expense in a month? odderanswer says the guys he spoke to THAT ACTUALLY OWN AND DRIVE these vehicles have a 30L expense per week, you can't think like a petrol head when it comes to EV's, this will also probably outlast any other taxi cab...... Go and drive one and talk to the blokes that actually drive and own them. ROIT comes in the form of less frequent and typically less maintenance and lower petrol expenses.
London have just approved the Nissan Env200 40kwh Hackney conversion. I think it will prove more popular than the range extender.
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I cant remember the last Taxi (uber) I went in to that wasn't a plug in hybrid aka the Prius