If London Mayor Boris Johnson has way, then London will become the 'electric car capital of Europe', as Johnson intends to have 100,000 electric cars in London with about 25,000 charging points spread all over the city.

Apart from car and vans, the mayor also wants to convert at least 1,000 government utility vehicles to electric by 2015.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that the forthcoming UK budget would have provisions to introduce electric cars in a mass way although many MPs have called for incentives for consumers to swap their petrol or diesel run vehicles in favour of new electric cars.

Since a small electric car costs around £7,000, the UK government is planning to give consumers an incentive of £2,000 to purchase an electric car, which the owner could recoup from the cost price in about two years since an electric car brings a cost saving of approximately £3,000 a year.

The Mayor sent a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown outlining his plan for making London a city with electric cars, where the infrastructure for charging the electric cars would be made available on main roads, retail centres, car parks, in workplaces and railway stations by 2015.

He has said that 20 per cent of all new parking spaces and all new building developments should have charging points and guaranteed that all electric vehicles would not have to pay the central London congestion charge.

Since this plan would cost approximately £60 million, he wanted the cost to borne collectively by the Greater London Authority, the government and the private sector.

The government had earmarked £250 million in January to be given as incentives to consumers opting for electric in the UK and Johnson said he would try to get a ''sizeable chunk'' from this fund for London, which has the highest density of cars in the UK.

Johnson is convinced that introducing electric cars in London on a mass scale, would create more green collar jobs, less pollution from transport, improve the quality of air, reduce traffic noise and pave the way to achieving CO2 emission target for London.

If Johnson's plan is implemented, then London's emissions will be reduced by 60 per cent by 2025, which will bring greater London within the EU limits on air pollution.

He has now put the ball in the government's court and wants the government to put its money where its mouth is and back his plan to make electric vehicles the first choice for Londoners.

Talking to The Independent, Johnson said "This is an unprecedented package of measures to make 'London the electric car capital of Europe.'