London’s Electric Black Cabs Are Heading to Berlin

A TX electric black taxi, manufactured by the London EV Co.

Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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The London EV Company Ltd. plans to start selling an electric version of the iconic black cab in Germany, targeting a slice of the nation’s taxi business -- dominated for decades by Daimler AG’s diesel vehicles.

As being green matters more and more to European consumers, LEVC plans to benefit from a partnership with Volvo AB to sell hundreds of its battery-run black cabs in Berlin and other German cities. The car is already ferrying passengers on the streets of Amsterdam and Oslo.