NEW LONDON CAB BY LONDON TAXI COMPANY

LONDON TAXI COMPANY INAUGURATES £300 MILLION NEW VEHICLE PLANT UK’s first dedicated car factory to produce electric vehicles for global markets Ansty plant to be UK’s first dedicated electric vehicle manufacturing facility First all-new vehicle manufacturing facility to be built in Britain for more than a decade The first major Chinese investment of its kind in UK automotive from parent Geely The creation of more than 1000 high skilled, high quality manufacturing jobs A new R&D Light-weighting and EV centre for Geely and Britain Wednesday 22nd March 2017, Coventry, England: The London Taxi Company (LTC) today announced the official opening of the UK’s first car plant dedicated solely to the production of range -extended electric vehicles. This new, state-of-the-art, vehicle plant in Ansty, Coventry, is where the world’s first purpose-built, mass-market electric taxi will be built. LTC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Geely, has invested more than £300m in the new site and the next-generation London taxi, which will be produced at the plant and exported around the world. The investment and expansion of LTC has created more than 1,000 new jobs, including 200 engineers and 30 apprenticeships. The site has the capacity to build more than 20,000 vehicles per year - vehicles designed for, and dedicated to one task: to be the best ultra-low emission commercial vehicles in the world. The taxi vehicle is using proven Volvo Car electric powertrain system technologies and components comprising a new EV light weight platform, while retaining the iconic design heritage recognized around the world. Further derivatives of this new EV architecture will follow. Production Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound! ES_You Got Nothing On Me (Instrumental Version) - Loving Caliber

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