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What does London’s electric vehicle future look like?
National World - LocalTV
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14/05/2025
From cheap charging costs to reduced air pollution.
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environmental issues have been amongst the hottest topics in london over recent years
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from the ultra low emission zone to e-bikes and scooters taking over the streets of the capital
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now though according to energy company eon it could be possible to charge an electric vehicle
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for just two pounds 70 depending on the vehicle i spoke to electric vehicle campaigner and
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comedian robert lewin to find out more the new electric vehicles we're seeing around us now
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the idea of that came out of the computer industry out of silicon valley not from the car industry
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the car industry were fully the traditional old car and fully wedded to combustion engines and to
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carry on burning oil and it was weird uh computer nerds that came up with the idea of using the
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batteries that they were used to using in phones and laptops and and you know ipads and things like
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that to to power cars and so it's really from that point that i became aware of it i wasn't
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convinced it was a good idea until i started driving electric cars which was really around 2010.
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Charging your electric car versus filling up with petrol is just the sensible economic thing to do
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it's more pounds in your pocket better for the environment in terms of the miles you're doing so
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everything in the shop £2.70 because that's the cost of charging a small city-based car overnight
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so you know we all know from wandering into a coffee shop that £2.70 quite often doesn't
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even buy you a latte these days doesn't buy you that full loaf of bread so look it's a little fun
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comparison it shows what we're really trying to draw attention to is driving an ev is a great
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thing for driving standards for the environment but also it's the sensible choice when it comes to
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getting a few extra quid in your pocket as well good a good idea which is what one of the people in
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the shop just said is what does it cost to drive from here in central london to birmingham and in a
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petrol car it's around 30 35 pounds depending on the car you're driving if you're driving a really big
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suv it's about 50 pounds and it will cost you two pounds 70 in an electric car and i think that
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change makes people see oh hang on a minute because i've been told electric cars are really expensive
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and they're really expensive to charge and you get cost so no now while evs may be cheaper to run
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at the moment electric vehicles are generally more expensive to purchase the average cost of a new
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petrol car is around 21 000 pounds while an average new electric vehicle is around 10 000 pounds more
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expensive now most uk energy companies are offering low tariffs for ev drivers but how is london coping
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with electric vehicles and is it leading the way for the rest of the uk well we all know there's loads
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of firsts all through history in london actually london in terms of the uk was one of the first cities
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to really adopt electric vehicle driving again obviously busy city roads small cars it suits it
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perfectly we're seeing a big shift in the air quality in london has really improved in the last
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three years and this is really largely down to taxis buses delivery vans and obviously cars
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