Just a thought - does this impact on the London Black Cab? That’s been fairly criticised for its high purchase price and relatively low battery range - if it loses the grant subsidy I imagine it’ll hit uptake prettt hard?
There's a new catagory 1 Taxi definition and the TX is the only vehicle in it at the moment.
I can imagine that Geely had that arrangement sorted before they ever set shop here!
Category 1 taxis
These vehicles are purpose-built taxis and have CO2 emissions of less than 50g/km and can travel at least 112km (70 miles) without any CO2 emissions at all:
LEVC TX
The grant will pay for 20% of the purchase price for these vehicles, up to a maximum of £7,500.