Electric cabs

good news (if a little late)

but what worries me is that I won't have a hope in hell of hearing them when they come flying up behind me in a bus lane

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7360426.stm

100km range... can't see that catching on at all. A run to and from Heathrow a few times will use that up, and as it's electric and not hybrid there isn't a backup option when the batteries are flat.

It'd be great to think that London's cabbies would all rush out to buy an electric cab, but it's not going to happen unless they are required to use them.
Over to you, Ken..

Hydrogen powered busses, electric cabs and a ban on HGVs between 6am and 10pm. That would make London very clean.

100 km range will make them useless though. I see loads of cab parked out side house in zone 6+ there is 60 km out of 100 gone just going in and out to the center.

Nice idea but need tweaking.

oops too late.

if they installed recharge points at the central cabby hang outs it could work, they could recharge while they're drinking their tea and reading the sun

it has to happen sometime!

maybe they could play loud music, or have amplified simulated engine noise.

if they installed recharge points at the central cabby hang outs it could work, they could recharge while they're drinking their tea and reading the sun

Yeah it depends on the recharge time and what battery technology they are using Ni cad can take top up charging Ni hm can't (I think it is that way around), lithuim ion batteries I have no idea about other than I would think they would be to expensive for a car. I am sure some else on the forum knows though.