telephone box and black taxis identify a lot you know when you say one of these vehicles you automatically know that you are in london. but a change is coming to come out and pollution london in spain cialis diesel powered cabs as of twenty eight c. only e-cards of being issued new operating licenses not to everyone s liking if you lose the lawsons london taxi you lose part of london s identity. and so recognisable. london s black cabs have cold status but they re also major polluters unlike these new cabs they re quiet and much cleaner than diesel powered taxis besides other advantages. we ve got door in completely opposite direction. passes coming this way so they can get fit in the gaps and it would be
colleague owns eighty diesel powered cabs and a governor to service them. and he s worried he would have to start from scratch when that down from london streets which i personally have about one hundred fifty thousand pounds if the government wanted to come in and give me a growing or i could see the state of the trade being able to sustain me spending that money and earning it back potentially at this moment in time. it may have divided opinion within the british capital but london s taxi transformation is in full gear gradually making new cities a cleaner. who cares about the shallow industry s destructive impacts i do you who cares about l g b t rights in australia. argument. has about female empowerment in
a maserati or mid-range porsche. a hefty price tag indeed but london has the ambitions goal of becoming a zero emissions city by twenty fifty the government gives the ground and money to eight and a half thousand euros toward buying a new eco. who says he saves on fuel. this is a car right near the mine but he will say to. visit. us the charging point. finding and charging station can be difficult as a backup he also runs on gasoline but soon enough you sound a spark to recharge his battery. he saves an additional one hundred euros each week because we charging the battery is cheaper than filling up on gasoline. but it also requires patience. how long does he usually have to wait. twenty and forty five minutes to pin on how much an ace how much you want to charge to fully charge it to the site i would say thirty five forty five minutes and how
much does he save for its three pound i.e. and six pounds. you know the provider you are using. jemima hartshorn once dirty diesel comes to disappear from the city streets sooner rather than later. she s concerned about the health of london s children which is why she founded the mums for lungs initiative. insists on like council traditional black cabs are amongst the biggest contributors to nitrogen oxides and fine particle emissions in central london they re all diesel powered so it s great that gradually disappeared from our street side to every one of those on taxis as a fifteen year operating license so it will be twenty thirty three before that all replaced by eternities. but steve kansan thinks the change is happening too fast he feels overwhelmed and he s not alone one
our traffic. u.s.p. pool here what for as well so connected over here. controlled by the driver you have to pass around a roof on a good day say the sights along. it s just been a revolution. in a bentley because the badge looks a little bit like and see. this taxi or we re in a bentley was it was a little bit you know the experience was completely different so yeah it s been it s been different steve kansans older diesel taxi can t compete with such fancy features all he can do is keep his cap spotless he s all for clean air to the things the new e-cards the two luxurious for london and about twenty five percent more than regular diesel cabs too expensive a sixty two thousand vehicle which is what the new taxi is to put that in perspective puts it into the same price bracket as