London Electric Vehicle Company (LEVC), the black-cab maker owned by China's Geely holding, has released teaser images of a fully new taxi slated to reach the market in 2027. The previews indicate the car will keep the classic silhouette, but technical details are still scarce — a plug-in hybrid setup like the outgoing model's seems the most likely route.
The current TX has been on sale since 2017 and leans on Volvo-sourced hardware from elsewhere in the Geely empire. Production at the Ansty plant near Coventry wraps up by the end of September, with 12,216 units sold in total, as the line must be retooled for the newcomer. One reason for the changeover: the TX no longer satisfies London's updated taxi rules.
An open question is where the next cab will be assembled. Per Autocar, the site decision hasn't been made, and China's far lower manufacturing costs make it a plausible candidate — no small matter for a company that posted a £54.9 million loss in 2025. Geely's earlier plan to build LEVC into a global electric commercial-vehicle brand also stalled; its lone product from that push, the L380 minivan, ended up reworked into the Geely Galaxy V900.