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The London municipal vehicle fleet will be bolstered by a quartet of Mitsubishi's i-MiEV electric city cars as the city kicks off a drive to acquire 1,000 EVs over the next few years.


Mitsubishi said its four-seat battery-electric i-MiEVs will be used by Transport for London - the capital city's transportation agency - which intends to add six EVs more by the end of the year.


To help boost EV use in the city, London authorities - with help from the national low Carbon Procurement Partnership and other grant programs - intend to install 2,500 public EV charging  stations throughout the city by 2015, as part of a broader plan for 25,000 chargers, most of them at businesses to provide charging for employee and fleet vehicles.


Mayor Boris Johnsdon has said he wants to make London the EV capital of Europe and to have 100,000 electric vehicles - cars, taxis, trucks and buses - on the road there before the end of the decade.


There now are just under 2,000 electric vehicles registered in the city and 8,000 registered throughout the U.K., according to Transport for London.

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London to Build 1,000-Car EV Fleet, Starting With 4 Mitsubishi i-MiEVs was originally published by Green Car Advisor. Read the full story by clicking here.