LEVC - 5000 SALES

The London EV Company (LEVC), formerly The London Taxi Corporation famous for its black London taxicabs, is this week celebrating the sale of its 5,000th plug-in hybrid taxi, the TX, to a private taxi business in Germany.

The London Taxi Corporation was able to trace its history back to 1919, and its iconic black London taxicabs became as familiar in person and on film as the yellow New York taxicab (though minus the angry shouting). And yes, those brightly illuminated taxicabs from the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics were cabs made by The London Taxi Corporation.

In 2017, driven by the persistent global transition to electric vehicles, the company rebranded as the London EV Company (LEVC) and began making the TX plug-in hybrid electric taxi.

Since sales began in 2018, LEVC has now sold 5,000 TX taxis, which cumulatively have covered a total distance of 302 million kilometres – roughly equivalent to driving around the world 7,500 times – and prevented more than 57,000 tonnes of CO2 from entering the atmosphere, prevented 35 million litres of fuel from being pumped, and saved drivers around $61 million in fuel costs - link