London has taken a step further towards becoming the electric vehicle capital of Europe with plans for the delivery of a 1,000-strong fleet and 8,500 charging points for the Greater London Authority.
Worth £70 million, the procurement frameworks will help reduce costs and move the city forward to meet the mayor's target of delivering 25,000 electric vehicle charge points by 2015.
Boris Johnson said that in the next 12 months, Londoners will see 1,600 more charge points being installed across the city as part of his CO2 emission strategy for the next 15 years.
Graeme Craig, TfL's director of congestion charging and traffic enforcement, said: "London is particularly well suited to the expansion of electric vehicles as 90 per cent of car journeys are less than ten miles, well within the travel range of existing electric vehicles."
Electric vehicles emit 30 to 40 per cent less carbon emissions than comparable petrol or diesel cars.
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