:00:00. > :00:21.Certain cars could be banned from London's roads in an effort
:00:22. > :00:24.Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan refused to rule out
:00:25. > :00:27.the possibility in a bid, he says, 'to save lives'.
:00:28. > :00:31.Meanwhile an entrepreneur has succeeded in getting enough crowd
:00:32. > :00:33.funding to set up thousands of new charging points
:00:34. > :00:39.Sarah Harris has been speaking to him.
:00:40. > :00:42.The Mayor of London says there needs to be a complete rethink
:00:43. > :00:53.in the way our city operates in an effort to combat
:00:54. > :00:59.Sadiq Khan refused to rule out banning some cars
:01:00. > :01:03.One London based entrepreneur has making the shift to green cars
:01:04. > :01:05.easier by setting up thousands of charging points
:01:06. > :01:09.Just five days into 2017 and the capital had already
:01:10. > :01:14.Funding over the next five years has been doubled by the Mayor of London
:01:15. > :01:18.Green electric vehicles are part of radical plans to improve things,
:01:19. > :01:22.We've got plans to run over the next few years for more charging points.
:01:23. > :01:24.We have to make sure that the electric that
:01:25. > :01:27.comes to the points is as clean as possible.
:01:28. > :01:29.We'll save up energy for Londoners to make sure we have
:01:30. > :01:31.sustainable forms of generation of electricity in London.
:01:32. > :01:33.We've got to rethink the way our city operates.
:01:34. > :01:36.Sandy Baker converted to an electric car a year ago.
:01:37. > :01:38.But living in a flat, he can't charge the vehicle
:01:39. > :01:43.He believes more needs to be done to make the switch away from petrol
:01:44. > :01:45.and diesel cars and reduce nitrogen oxide and particulates.
:01:46. > :01:47.There is no dedicated parking space for you that you can
:01:48. > :01:51.The only way you can have an electric car,
:01:52. > :01:53.for the vast majority of Londoners, well, central Londoners,
:01:54. > :01:55.certainly, is if you have lots and lots of public
:01:56. > :02:00.London-based entrepreneur Eric Fairburn believes he has the answer.
:02:01. > :02:02.Partly through crowdfunding, his firm is providing thousands
:02:03. > :02:04.of charging points across London, at airports, supermarkets
:02:05. > :02:06.and housing developments to make electric car driving a practical
:02:07. > :02:11.We really think that electric vehicles are just about to hit mass
:02:12. > :02:14.market and that means we need to put thousands of charge points
:02:15. > :02:16.everywhere you park for an hour or more.
:02:17. > :02:18.So this investment is a fundamental change in our ability
:02:19. > :02:22.The latest technology may make drivers in the capital think again
:02:23. > :02:26.about owning their own car, with sharing becoming more the norm.
:02:27. > :02:28.Electric car technology is changing all the time.
:02:29. > :02:31.For example, if I want to put the heating on in the car,
:02:32. > :02:37.I can do it from inside the house using my phone.
:02:38. > :02:40.And if I press this button twice on the motorway,
:02:41. > :02:45.While campaigners accept private and public initiatives are steps
:02:46. > :02:47.in the right direction, many are calling for action now
:02:48. > :02:50.to make the capital's air cleaner and protect Londoners' health.
:02:51. > :03:01.Former boxer, Michael Watson, and his carer have been injured
:03:02. > :03:03.during an attempted carjacking in east London.
:03:04. > :03:05.Mr Watson, who was left partially disabled
:03:06. > :03:10.after a bout in 1991, had a substance sprayed in his face
:03:11. > :03:18.Police are appealing for information.
:03:19. > :03:21.Low-cost houses that measure 4 metres by 8 metres are to be built
:03:22. > :03:24.in Chelmsford for people who might otherwise be homeless.
:03:25. > :03:26.They're a modern version of the old-fashioned 'prefab' -
:03:27. > :03:28.with the local authority promising that rents will be kept low.
:03:29. > :03:41.By the spring, this parking lot will be one of two council-owned
:03:42. > :03:44.sites where the first 18 prefab homes will be assembled for some
:03:45. > :03:50.It will be people who are mainly on our waiting list and in desperate
:03:51. > :03:53.need of immediate accommodation, people who will have become homeless
:03:54. > :03:56.from their present accommodation for a variety of reasons.
:03:57. > :03:58.So this is a start, really, for a slightly different approach
:03:59. > :04:04.And I believe many other councils are in the same position as us.
:04:05. > :04:06.Would you like to build more of these?
:04:07. > :04:10.The interesting thing about this unit is it was assembled
:04:11. > :04:17.What we've got here is a separate bedroom, a living area here,
:04:18. > :04:24.and you can see through here we have got a shower room within a bathroom,
:04:25. > :04:27.and of course in the kitchen, the fridge, washing machine already
:04:28. > :04:31.Now, it can be assembled on-site in half a day
:04:32. > :04:33.NEWS FOOTAGE: A factory-made showhouse.
:04:34. > :04:38.A prototype of half a million promised by Mr Churchill...
:04:39. > :04:41.Construction methods have come a long way since prefabs first
:04:42. > :04:44.Generated by a housing crisis then and again now.
:04:45. > :04:47.Manufacturers say the modules can be built at less than half the cost
:04:48. > :04:50.of a traditional brick house and are far more energy-efficient.
:04:51. > :04:56.Between them, neighbours Brian and Sandra have clocked up 94 years
:04:57. > :05:04.They live just a stone's throw from where the new modules will go.
:05:05. > :05:24.It's all on one level, it is large in size,
:05:25. > :05:27.the garden's huge, and as a child we used to go around and climb
:05:28. > :05:31.This is very much a quick fix for a local council.
:05:32. > :05:34.But the housing industry will be taking note of this because so many
:05:35. > :05:37.young people are unable to afford to get onto the property ladder.
:05:38. > :05:40.So these prefab homes could be a game-changer.
:05:41. > :05:43.And tomorrow will be mild from the start.
:05:44. > :05:46.Dry as well with just a bit of cloud.
:05:47. > :05:50.The only real change - the temperature - as it picks up
:05:51. > :06:22.on and on. It is because of the direction of the wind. Tomorrow's
:06:23. > :06:26.temperatures might be higher than today by a couple of degrees. There
:06:27. > :06:31.has been a lot of cloud. But we had some lovely pictures coming in. Some
:06:32. > :06:32.sunshine, but predominantly the clouds