It’s time to celebrate when an iconic vehicle like the London black cab goes green. Since its launch in 2018 the TX electric cab has prevented more than 200,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions from entering the earth's atmosphere. That’s the equivalent to the emissions of more than 111,000 passenger flights from London to Sydney. It has now overtaken the diesel-powered TX4 as the most common black cab operating in London. So we were happy to make a short film for the London Electric Vehicle Company (LEVC) to get across this good news story.
LEVC manufactures the purpose-built, range-extended electric TX at its state-of-the-art facility in Ansty, Coventry. Featuring flexible space for up to six passengers, the vehicle includes an integrated wheelchair ramp enabling the TX to accommodate a forward-facing wheelchair – the only taxi of its kind to do so. The TX’s eCity technology provides a pure EV range of 78 miles and a total range-extended capacity of 333 miles.
In the last six years, LEVC's TX has travelled more than 650 million miles globally, with the company producing more than 10,000 of its revolutionary electric TX taxis, which have been sold throughout the world. More info here.
“I recently took a ride in an electric TX cab in London and the driver was so enthusiastic. I am delighted that our visual imagery is helping tell this good news story.”
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The saving attributed to LEVC’s TX is 200 thousand tonnes of CO₂, which would fill 42,749 Olympic sized swimming pools.
A stack of thousand tonne sphere with base 5 x 5 spheres would have eight layers, making its total height of 805.44 metres. The height of the stack is just shorter than the tallest building in the world: the Burj Khalifa, which 829.8 metres. It is the same height as:
8.4 x Big Ben’s (96 metres)
1.8 x Empire State Buildings (443 metres)
4.5 x BT Towers (117 metres)
As one big sphere, 200,000 tonnes of CO₂ would be 588.783 metres
It is equivalent to 16 hours of UK transport emissions
It is equivalent to all emissions from transport in London for 10 days.