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I saw on Twitter just now someone has published LTN related research today
Although Uber's technology seems a superior way to match cabs to people than either black cabs (circling empty and flagged down) or old school mini-cabs (sent from a local office but almost certain to do a return trip back to the office empty).
LEVC TX review: London's new electric taxi driven
We drive London's new, electric black cabwww.carmagazine.co.uk
[under the bonnet you'll find] a 1.5-litre Volvo petrol engine – but it doesn’t deliver any power to the rear wheels. Instead, it’s used solely to top up the car’s batteries. This important detail makes the TX a range-extending EV rather than a hybrid. LEVC says the TX is good for 377 miles between top ups, though only 80 of those miles would be using batteries alone.
Rough figures put the old taxi at around 18-22 mpg, and the new one at 35 mpg
That's pretty poor fuel consumption for new and truly terrible for old.
So its not a hybrid then.
Not sure what is your point. Do you want to see end of Black Cabs?
So its not a hybrid then.
Not sure what is your point. Do you want to see end of Black Cabs?
There were a few guesses about what the new cabs actually were. I didn't know so I looked them up.
Seems a bit of a grey area. My understanding is that a 'plug in hybrid' only has to be able to cover 20miles on full electric. the new black cabs claim 80, which is a lot more than that but also a lot less than full electric vehicles and probably less than a black cab drives in a normal shift. So their emissions will depend on whether they are actually charged or just driven on the engine. I've seen reports that most plug in hybrids are just bought as a company car tax dodge and never actually get plugged in - don't know if that's true or not. I'm guessing the cost saving is probably enough to ensure Black Cabs do get used electric as much as possible. The fuel consumption for both new and old seems poor.
Do I want to see the end of black cabs? No, but nor am I sure they should necessarily be preserved in aspic. Having cars driving round empty looking for business seems wrong whether their black cabs or Ubers. Ubers do it presumably because they're not allowed on cab ranks. Black cabs presumably do it because they don't have Uber style matching to find customers. "The knowledge" seems to have much less value than it did when google or Waze will give a live routing that takes into account current traffic (and most black cabs seem to use it outside the smallish central zone that they're required to know about.
We definitely need disabled accessible taxis but does every taxi need to be disabled accessible? Maybe not once you're matching customers taxis with an app rather than flagging one down. I don't know. I rarely use black cabs but as a non-disabled passenger their main benefit seemed to be that they could carry 4 or 5 passengers rather than 2 or 3 in a conventional car but in less comfort.
Ha. You sound so certain about that. Before I stopped hailing black cabs because I was so sick and tired of the racist, homophobic bile I used to hear from about 20% of them, especially late at night, I developed quite a good sample of the cabbie culture. Not pretty. There were also some extremely nice guys, of course. But as previous posters have pointed out, it's also a fairly closed shop as a profession if you're not white and male. So the facts speak for themselves.No. You might remember the phrase was 'south of the river'. Never, even had racial connartations, except it seems in your head.
The calculation is 'when I drop off the customer, will I get a pick up to take me on, and referably back to the centre'. It's about, as they call it, 'dead mileage'.
LEVC TX review: London's new electric taxi driven
We drive London's new, electric black cabwww.carmagazine.co.uk
[under the bonnet you'll find] a 1.5-litre Volvo petrol engine – but it doesn’t deliver any power to the rear wheels. Instead, it’s used solely to top up the car’s batteries. This important detail makes the TX a range-extending EV rather than a hybrid. LEVC says the TX is good for 377 miles between top ups, though only 80 of those miles would be using batteries alone.
Rough figures put the old taxi at around 18-22 mpg, and the new one at 35 mpg
That's pretty poor fuel consumption for new and truly terrible for old.
I thought they were moving to all electric. With small petrol engine to top up battery if no charging points are near.
So not a hybrid.
Idling time? I'd guess Uber or Addison Lee drivers also get far smaller mpg than their engine is capable of because it's part of the way they operate. Cabs of all sorts mostly seem to leave their engine running during pickup, setdown and waiting, and black cabs have theirs running while they edge forward on ranks at stations etc.That is AWFUL. I assume 35mpg is city driving only but still......a half decent diesel (cough) engine was doing at least 40-45mpg city YEARS ago.
No option but to drive?Fuck this quite frankly, my son is looking at an addition of 45min on to his school journey either way.
Yes. Unless you can fly him to his specialist provision in Greenwich.No option but to drive?
Blue badge holders should be allowed through, I’ve said it to my councillor. Does it really take 45 mins extra to get out of Brixton?. The rush hour traffic yesterday didn’t seem that bad.Yes. Unless you can fly him to his specialist provision in Greenwich.
Can you just provide some more detail to back this up? Where does the extra time arise?Fuck this quite frankly, my son is looking at an addition of 45min on to his school journey either way.
But they're not, there is no provision to let blue badge holders through. All the side roads that they would normally cut through are closed off, they have to go down Dulwich way which apparently is jam packed like never before with traffic so now going to try through Camberwell which they traditionally avoided as too busy and time consuming. Cabbie is saying he might have to refuse the job.Blue badge holders should be allowed through, I’ve said it to my councillor. Does it really take 45 mins extra to get out of Brixton?. The rush hour traffic yesterday didn’t seem that bad.
you are describing a hybrid
Gentrification. Right. There.As an enthusiastic supporter of LTNs, I'm delighted to report some very high-class lacrosse action under the Shakespeare Road railway bridge tonight. Initially mistook it for shinty but knew it was too good to be true.
Gentrification. Right. There.
Oh come on.A loose version of lacrosse was played in 1100AD. It's one of the toughest, most violent, games in the world. Hardly gentrification.
Oh come on.
Lacrosse's Rich White People 'Problem' Is A Feature, Not A Bug
I apologize for the cliched headline, but it was the clearest thing I could think of after I saw a piece by ESPN's Quint Kessenich in Inside Lacrosse that lamented the sport's very pale status as it noted February 13's opening men's varsity game by Hampton University. It's the first historically...www.forbes.com
Fuck this quite frankly, my son is looking at an addition of 45min on to his school journey either way.
Ms Kissi-Debrah said it was “unforgivable” to make the changes during a pandemic.
She said: “The numbers from the BAME community on this side are more than on the other side. The other side is more affluent.
“It’s environmental racism.
But you will be pleased to know that Lacrosse can be played in the car free streets. That is progress. So your son's inconvience is minor now that sport can be played in the street.
Yeah, let’s have kids indoors where they belong.But you will be pleased to know that Lacrosse can be played in the car free streets. That is progress. So your son's inconvience is minor now that sport can be played in the street.