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City Debuts Electric Cabs for Earth Day

The six Nissan LEAF cabs run completely on electricity and never need to fill up at gas stations.

This article was posted by Caitlin Nolan. It was reported on and written by Nathan Duke.

The city launched a new electric taxi pilot program on Monday to celebrate Earth Day. 

The six Nissan LEAF cabs, which will be put on the road today, run completely on electricity and never need to fill up at gas stations. 

“New Yorkers are very environmentally conscious and [they] appreciate that in a city as congested as this one, air quality is always going to be a concern and anything you can do to reduce harmful emissions is a step in the right direction,” city Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky told 1010 Wins

The cabs, which can be fully recharged in less than 30 minutes, could reduce gas emissions by nearly 90,000 tons per year, Yassky told 1010 Wins. 

In his January 2013 state of the city address, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he’d like for one-third of the city’s 13,000 medallion taxis to be electric by 2020. 

For more information on the electric cabs, visit the TLC’s website.


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