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London EV Company Limited (LEVC, formerly The London Taxi Corporation Limited trading as The London Taxi Company) is a British automotive electric vehicle manufacturer with its headquarters at Ansty near Coventry, England, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chinese automaker Geely. The company is responsible for the electrical conversion of London’s famous black taxicabs.
Geely had been in talks over the possibility of converting London's black cabs into electric-powered vehicles. The company said it has held talks with UK government officials about the plan. The TX range extender electric vehicle is built at a new facility near Ansty, northeast of Coventry.
By April 2022, over 5,000 TX's has been sold in London, around a third of London's taxi fleet.
An electric van was revealed by LEVC on 17 June 2019, and will be available to order in the second half of 2020. In March 2020, LEVC confirmed that the new van would be called
History
Geely's involvement in British taxicab production began in 2006 when it partnered with LEVC's predecessor The London Taxi Company, and its parent Manganese Bronze Holdings, in the creation of a China-based taxicab manufacturing joint venture. In 2008, Geely considered the possibility of converting London's black cabs into electric-powered vehicles. In 2009 Geely bought shares in Manganese Bronze Holdings. In 2012 Manganese Bronze Holdings entered administration due to lack of funding. In 2013 Geely rescued part of the business and created its own taxicab production company as ''The London Taxi Corporation Limited''. The joint venture, Shanghai LTI Automobile Components Co Ltd, makes theTX4
The TX4 is a purpose-built taxicab (hackney carriage) manufactured by The London Taxi Company, a subsidiary of Geely Automobile of China. From 2007 until their liquidation in 2013 it was manufactured by LTI. It is the latest in a long line of p ...
, a licensed London Black Cab, in Fengjing, Shanghai
Fengjing () is a town in Jinshan District, Shanghai. An ancient water town, it also has a new town with a Canadian theme and an industrial zone. It is a centre for Jinshan peasant painting.
Fengjing has an area of , and had a registered populatio ...
, and exports semi-complete knock-down kits for assembly in the UK.
From 2014, Geely invested £480m in LEVC to develop a new taxi. In March 2015, LEVC announced a new factory and offices would be built at Ansty Park, northeast of Coventry at a cost of £90m, creating 1,000 jobs. Geely hoped to manufacture 36,000 vehicles per annum.
In 2017, the company launched the new LEVC TX electric hybrid taxi and announced its intentions to begin production of electric commercial vehicles in addition to taxicabs.
Models
TX
Geely had been in talks over the possibility of converting London's black cabs into electric-powered vehicles. The company said it has held talks with UK government officials about the plan. The TX range extender electric vehicle is built at a new facility near Ansty, northeast of Coventry.
By April 2022, over 5,000 TX's has been sold in London, around a third of London's taxi fleet.
VN5
An electric van was revealed by LEVC on 17 June 2019, and will be available to order in the second half of 2020. In March 2020, LEVC confirmed that the new van would be called LEVC VN5
The LEVC VN5 is a plug-in hybrid panel van produced since November 2020 by British electric vehicle manufacturer London EV Company (LEVC), a subsidiary of Chinese automobile company Geely.
Overview
The LEVC TX Hackney carriage was launched in ...
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* {{Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2013 British companies established in 2013 British subsidiaries of foreign companies 2013 establishments in England