22/06/2014 BBC London News


22/06/2014

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on BBC One. Time for the news where you are.

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Good evening and welcome to BBC London News with me, Asad Ahmad

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The Mayor's plan for London to become the

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"electric car capital" of Europe appears to be faltering as only a

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tiny per centage of Londoners have been found to have changed their

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petrol vehicles for electric ones. Boris Johnson said he wanted to have

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a 100,000 electric cars in the city, but currently only 3%

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of that target has been achieved. Here's our Political Editor,

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Tim Donovan. The Mayor promised to bring 100 000

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electric vehicles on to London's roads but five years

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on there are just 3,000. At this car dealership,

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these SUVs may be the biggest seller but they are only

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part electric and still need fuel. The only problem with electric

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vehicles, is they do run out of range fairly quickly.

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So, in practice, I think customers probably thought -

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unless they are doing very short journeys - the electric vehicle may

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not be the answer. The mayor promised 235,000 charging

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points in the capital by next year. So far there are just 1500.

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