London Mayor Boris Johnson announced his official plan to turn London into the Electric Car Capital of the World at the meeting of the Climate Leadership group of 40 world cities, who presumably also each are planning to be the Electric Car Capital of the World.

The plan calls for Londoners to purchase 100,000 plug-in EVs (compared with 1700 in operation now) in the politically precise “as soon as possible” timeframe. Their taste for “leccy cars,” according to the inexplicable English tendency to infantilize inanimate objects, will be whetted by the installation of 25,000 car charging points (CCP) by 2015, 2500 of which will be funded by the Greater London Authority.

Johnson plans to create a "Dedicated Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence" (DEVCoE) in the Greater London Authority (GLA) to liaise with other member cities of the CLG, which is also known as the “C40,” whose members apparently will now undoubtedly rush to button up their own Electric Car Capital of the World plans.

But for now, here's the Tweet: “@CLG (aka C40), GLA sets 100K EV plan with 25,000 CCPs by 2015 to become ECCW.” Follow me, chaps?

If you’re interested in seeing what a detailed, world-capital authority EV policy plan looks like, check it out: An Electric Vehicle Delivery Plan for London.