VW lunch electric taxi concept in london

Major cities in the world continue to improve the environment cleaner and more energy efficient by introducing vehicles that do not cause pollution.  Vehicles are not only targeted at private users, as well as the leased fleet, such as taxis.  One of the major cities of the world are aggressively improving the environment right now is London, England.  In addition, the compact size of the cab or practical.

Kamarin in the city, VW launched a Taxi Concept is created based on the Up or Lupo city car, produced in the future.  More precisely, it is Milan's taxi Taxi VW Concept that was introduced in Germany in April.

Taxi Concept with two-box body structure - like a minibus - the brainchild of Klaus Bischoff, VW boss on the design team.  Bischoff also launched a taxi directly at the heart of downtown London.


VW Taxi Concept is driven by electric motors powered 115 PS (85kW), which obtain energy from lithium-ion battery capacity of 45kWh.  With pengecasan (content) for one hour, enough to fill 80 percent of the total capacity of the battery.

He further, taxi munggil with dimensions: length 3.730 mm, width 1680 mm and 1600 mm high, once the contents of the batteries can make a distance of 300 km.  Ability dikebut, 119 km.  As a typical London taxi, on both the front door-mounted Union Jack small flag.

source : worldcarfans

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While the new targeting to become the ruler of the world automotive industry in the coming year 2019, Volkswagen was able to beat this year was the Toyota.

But it was not in terms of car sales, but in terms of number of cars produced this year.

Germany as a manufacturer is scored as many car production 4.4 million units during the 9 months. The number is far higher than the ruler of the automobile industry the world today, Toyota's only managed to produce a car as many as 4 million units.

Increased production of this significant is the effect of suspected government programs that provide subsidies for people who want to swap their old cars with new cars more efficient.

Similar cash program for the U.S. government clunker. But for these matters, Germany is a Forerunner for having started the program since 2008 ago.

The program has proved successful to put the German automotive industry to increase 26.1 percent. VW already ambitious for this level up not to waste the opportunity.

Because thanks to these subsidies, sales of VW can jump to 34 percent with total sales reaching 622.853 units. Skoda Fabia brand and is the most developed brand because its sales Jumped to 92.4 percent while Octavia rose 20.4 percent.

The success of VW became the manufacturer with the world's largest production also followed by a successful Ford beat GM production Effort won the third-largest position in the automotive world.

Ford has been producing cars reported as many as 3.7 million units in the first nine months of 2009. Slightly above GW which has produced 3.6 million units of cars.

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