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Fife councillors welcome first electric taxi

Councillors have welcomed the first electric taxi to Fife’s roads – and have hailed the success of Fife Council’s ECO Stars scheme.

Aitch Taxis, one of the scheme’s members, has become the first company in Fife to start using an electric car as a private hire vehicle.

Councillor Bob Young, chairman of the regulation and licensing committee, said: “The ECO Stars scheme encourages operators to run their vehicles in the most efficient way, which reduces carbon emissions as well as their own running costs.

“Cleaner air is good for everyone and 22 operators – running 111 vehicles – have joined the scheme so far, showing they’re committed to reducing air pollution in Fife.

“I’d like to congratulate Aitch Taxis for putting us on the road to a cleaner environment and hope others will follow their lead. Electric vehicles don’t emit any pollutants while they’re in use so they can play an important role in tackling climate change and improving local air quality.”

Cllr Young added Fife had an excellent network of chargers that anyone can use if they were considering switching to an electric car.

There are 19 charging points for electric vehicles, including three rapid chargers. These are available for the public to use at long stay car parks in town centres and at public transport interchanges such as railway stations.

The three rapid chargers can be found at Petheram Bridge car park, St Andrews; Bankhead Central (visitors car park), Glenrothes; and Halbeath Park and Ride.


source: http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/local-h ... -1-4189536

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

well that's a fair few don't think there are that many in any local authority in the Uk except perhaps London but the range of these vehicles is an issue still it might be difficult for the operators to generate as good a revenue stream as from a conventional vehicle

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

If they are expecting loads of taxis to go electric they will need a charging point for every rank space that they have. Or do they expect taxis to use a charging point away from the rank which would mean that they are not available for work whilst charging.

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Grandad,

Yeah that electricity from Nuclear Power is really good for us all.

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IDFIMH

Is it a hackney, or have the press got it wrong again, and its actually a PH ????????????

no hackneys in Scotland mate - I remember Gus telling me that

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

The story does say that it is a private hire vehicle if you read it.

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Grandad,

So if he's not plugged in or has a very long extension cable he could be done for, loitering in public view, instead of returning to base