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Coventry firm to build London’s new taxi

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Author: | Updated: 29 Jan 2014 06:26

Nissan’s new taxi for London will hit the capital’s streets before the end of the year: and it won’t have travelled too far from the assembly line.

That’s because Coventry’s ADV Manufacturing will produce the final vehicle following a £6million investment from Nissan for a taxi manufacturing facility in the city.

The new production facility will be built opposite ADV’s existing premises with the delivery of the first petrol engine taxis lined up for December. An all-electric variant is going to follow during 2015.

Nissan Taxi For London

According to Andy Palmer, the chief planning officer and executive vice president of Nissan, ADV was selected because of its expertise in producing specialist vehicles.

“Our new Taxi for London is part of a wider, international taxi programme that forms a key part of Nissan’s global strategy, so we are naturally being very prudent in selecting our partners,” he said. “ADV has demonstrated that it has the proficiency and capability to deliver what we believe will become a new icon for London.

“We are pleased to be reinforcing once again our commitment to the British automotive industry and the fact that our black cabs will be rolling off the production line in Coventry, with its long history in the taxi business, is an added bonus.”

According to Nissan’s managing director James Wright, Nissan will also forge ahead with its 100 per cent electric taxi based on the e-NV200; while Brendan O’Toole, the CEO of ADV Manufacturing, believes the agreement is great news for the city of Coventry as a whole.

“With Coventry University turning out world class engineers and an army of great workers steeped in automotive manufacturing disciplines right on our doorstep, we couldn’t be located in a better place to launch such an exciting and prestigious project as the new taxi for London,” he said. 

“We anticipate the Nissan taxi will become the new market standard and thereby underpin sustainable jobs at ADV for many years.”

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