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Old July 4th 18, 10:49 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Electric black cabs

On 04/07/2018 10:07, wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 17:28:16 +0100
Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 03/07/2018 16:56,
wrote:
Interesting. Browsing the site it seems these cars have a petrol engine
range extender too. If they have to use that I can imagine the cabbies will
be able to here the sound of the money being sucked from their wallets.

Unfortunaley there are few specifics on the site and I'm not giving all
my details just to download a pdf. Pity.

I do wonder as and when we move to primarily electric vehicles whether
that will change the desirability of a large chunk of London housing
which is close to major roads - if the noise reduces dramatically and
the pollution pretty much disappears...


I can't remember the exact speed, but at something very roughly around 30mph
most vehicle noises comes from the tyres anyway so on high speed roads it
won't make much difference noise wise. On rows with slow moving traffic OTOH it
could improve residents lives immensely.


So, London then?