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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Mayor's electric levy will put the brakes on clean air say Uber drivers

Charging: An Uber car at a charging point. - (PA)

Thousands of London Uber drivers who have switched to using a fully electric car say they are likely to go back to a petrol or diesel version when they have to start paying the congestion charge early next year, according to a poll.

So far an estimated 20,000 Uber drivers in the capital — some 40 per cent — have switched to electric vehicles (EVs), in large part because of an exemption from the daily charge for entering central London, which is currently £15.

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