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on BBC One. Time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Good evening and welcome to BBC London News with me, Asad Ahmad | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
The Mayor's plan for London to become the | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
"electric car capital" of Europe appears to be faltering as only a | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
tiny per centage of Londoners have been found to have changed their | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
petrol vehicles for electric ones. Boris Johnson said he wanted to have | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
a 100,000 electric cars in the city, but currently only 3% | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
of that target has been achieved. Here's our Political Editor, | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Tim Donovan. The Mayor promised to bring 100 000 | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
electric vehicles on to London's roads but five years | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
on there are just 3,000. At this car dealership, | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
these SUVs may be the biggest seller but they are only | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
part electric and still need fuel. The only problem with electric | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
vehicles, is they do run out of range fairly quickly. | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
So, in practice, I think customers probably thought - | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
unless they are doing very short journeys - the electric vehicle may | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
not be the answer. The mayor promised 235,000 charging | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
points in the capital by next year. So far there are just 1500. | :01:15. | :01:19. |