Boston - based company Zipcar is to undertake the biggest rollout of electric vehicles ( EVs ) in any UK city by a car - sharing firm , with the purchase of 300 Volkswagen e - Golfs in London . The EVs will start to appear during the summer , with the fleet expected to grow to 325 vehicles by the end of 2018 . Zipcar , which has over 200,000 members in the UK capital , said the e - Golfs would be available under its Flex service , allowing the vehicles to be picked up and dropped off anywhere in London .
Boston-based company Zipcar is to undertake the biggest rollout of electric vehicles (EVs) in any UK city by a car-sharing firm, with the deployment of 300 Volkswagen e-Golfs in London. The EVs will start to appear during the summer, with the fleet expected to grow to 325 cars by the end of 2018. Zipcar, which has over 200,000 members in the UK capital, said the e-Golfs would be available under its Flex service, allowing the EVs to be picked up and dropped off anywhere in London.