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The innovative all-electric Dynamo Taxi, which has been developed in Coventry, is to be rolled out across the UK following its official launch.
The taxi has been created by the Dynamo Motor Company – a division of ADV Manufacturing – in conjunction with Nissan – and was unveiled at the Private Hire & Taxi Exhibition at the MK Arena in Milton Keynes last week.

The vehicle has been developed to be used in UK towns and cities. Within Dynamo’s vehicle line-up is a fully working demonstrator London Taxi that, pending approvals, will comply with Transport For London’s stringent Conditions of Fitness as well as exceeding new zero emission capability legislation coming into force in January.

The five-seat Dynamo electric taxi, with full side wheelchair access, will have a range of 100 miles between charging and can be re-charged in only 30 minutes when using a Rapid Charge Post which are growing in numbers around the UK.

Brendan O’Toole, chairman at Dynamo, said this was an exciting development in the move towards all-electric powertrains.

“We’re at the start of the biggest change in the motoring world since the era of Henry Ford because most of us will be driving electric vehicles in the future,” he said.

“This is a pioneering new chapter in motoring and, if anything, driver selection of electric cars will continue to accelerate since they provide zero emissions for the environment which is important as we all continue to learn more about the damage to our health from pollution.

“We have spent several years developing the Dynamo Taxi and we are really proud of it. Our taxis are ideal for urban driving and we believe will play a leading role as regards electric vehicle adoption.

“By 2018, all new taxis bought in London must be zero emission capable and with more and more charging posts being installed throughout the country, I think within a short space of time drivers of electric vehicles will no longer need to make detailed plans for longer journeys because the UK’s major cities and towns will be connected by charging hubs.”

ADV Manufacturing currently supplies complex body and trim assemblies to the world’s leading automotive brands Aston Martin, Rolls Royce, Bentley and McLaren.

The company now plans to start selling the regional Dynamo Taxi vehicle in the summer and is hoping the London version will be on sale in the autumn.

The concept emerged when ADV worked in partnership with Nissan to develop a petrol driven London Taxi, and it became clear that it was not a fossil fuelled vehicle that drivers and cities wanted but an all-electric 100% emission free taxi.

To quicken up the process, ADV/Dynamo used its specialist low volume automotive experience to engineer and develop an electric version of the vehicle.

O’Toole added: “We’re a year ahead of where we thought we would be with our plans for the Dynamo Taxi which was absolutely necessary due to the speed in which the sector is changing.

“The vehicle must tick all the boxes and Dynamo does just that, it’s a smart taxi for smart drivers operating in smart cities. We are looking forward to starting production in our plant in Coventry very soon.

“The city has a long and rich history in the motoring world and we want to continue that tradition.

“Nissan has allowed us to work on its vehicles and has been very supportive of our work and our plans for the future.”

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

How can you exceed zero emissions?

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IDFIMH

Is it me or do these people just not get it?

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IDFIMH

They sell a very long lead as an optional extra.

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Former taxi driver

Obviously it will have a Vacuum Cleaner where your Cab currently has an exhaust pipe. This will suck up everyone else's nasty emissions and compress them into a convenient block allowing you to take them home and burn them on your coal fire.

I already burn my tyres on my coal fire, a small piece at a time What doesn't burn goes in the Councils waste bins. This saves me £1.00 per tyre on the charge for scrapping, helps to heat my water via the back boiler saving more money and I believe each tyre efficiently releases more emissions than 250 pre Euro Emission Standards Diesel vehicles in a year. I also burn all my food waste in the winter, plastic and cardboard all year round. Food waste when the fire is not lit goes in plastic bags and is joined by any glass, I put this in the Councils fixed bins. No heavy wheelie bins to shift, no forgetting bins day, no smelly bin outside my house.

A small protest, but my own.

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Chris The Fish

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I think the head line rolled out across the U.K. may be more accurate than it seems,with a range of 100 miles it will be rolling along on the end of a tow rope as it would be a flat battery in no time at all and charging points are few and far between.no one when its busy wants to sit plugged in to a charging point for 30 minutes and miss out on a lucrative portion of your shift,in all probability no one in the northern counties or southern Scotland are daft enough to buy one.

Nothing manufactured in this world is zero emissions.

No point in having rapid 30 minute charges if you can't find an available rapid charging point either because there are to few of of them or those few have a queue of other flat batteried Hacks fast becoming bankrupt as they wait in a queue for several hours before they can access a charging point.

At least with a Garage Forecourt your in and out within 5 minutes when filling up, so where on earth are they ever going to find enough available parking spaces in a busy city to put by for charging point purposes.

Nope until you get up to around 350 Miles per change Guaranteed and in all weather leccy cars are on a hiding to nothing for mainstream and commercial purposes..

Burning tyres eh might get you a nice fine that one anyone from Plymouth Council reading this

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What a lot of the Nissan Leaf p/h do round here is wait on a charging point for a fare, go and do it and then go back to the charging point, plug back in and wait for their next fare. Of course there's enough chargers to go round at the moment for them to be able to do this, but if a member of the public is using the charger when they return they're stuffed - especially if they stay connected for 8 hours overnight !

Another of the Leaf drivers charges his car at home, goes out and does a shift and once he gets to 20 mile range left finishes and goes home (you'll do less than 100 miles on a 8 hour shift round here). But he's the only driver so can leave it overnight charging, if he had a day driver he'd also be joining the charge/job/charge brigade. Plus he's had to turn down some good jobs towards the end of his shift because he can't go farther than 1/2 his remaining miles from home !

By the time you add in all our equipment, and heating in winter that will be the range down to 60 miles

They'll be about as much use as a sugar surf board.

And that's fine for the solo driver who only does that in a shift, doesn't do airport/long runs and can charge it at home overnight.

No good though for long jobs or cars with two drivers or no space to charge at home.

They are ideal in certain situations, you buy a vehicle dependant on what the job requirements are. I do less than 100 miles a shift (maybe 50-60 midweek 80-100 weekends), hardly ever go out of town or do a fare that goes more than 3 miles, so if it wasn't for the fact I have a second driver and nowhere to charge at home an electric vehicle would suit my needs just fine.

Now get the range over 200 miles and a 1 hour charge and it's completely different, or a 1000 mile range in ten hours, or a 20 mile range in ten seconds (well maybe not that one !). It all comes down to range and charge time at the moment.