Taxi Diamond plans to go electric and hybrid

Taxi Diamond is choosing the green routeandslowly converting its entire fleet of cabsto hybrid or electric cars.

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The company already has 110 hybrid cabson the streets of downtown Montreal butplans to start replacing all of its cars starting next year.

By 2020, Taxi Diamond's 1,110 vehicles will be hybrid or electric models.

It won't be the first of its kind in the city.To Taxi, Montreal's first fully electric taxi service, launched last November.