Electric and automated vehicles: how Europcar is embracing change

Lombard’s flexible financing supports a global leader in car and van hire

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More than 120 years after electric taxis were first introduced in London - unsuccessfully, as it turned out: they failed to compete with the horse-drawn cab - it seems battery-powered vehicles are finally poised to become the norm.

Their increasing popularity will shake up vehicle industries and services, as will self-driving cars, which may shape society as profoundly as the internal combustion engines that eventually replaced horses. If vehicles become fully autonomous, will owning them still seem worthwhile, or will we instead hail cars, Uber-style, as and when we need them?

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