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Firefly & Hyundai Motor America create pilot program to offer rideshare fleets & drivers new vehicles with bonus income up to $3,600/year

Green Car Congress

Firefly, a fast-growing in-car and car-top mobility media company and a Google Ventures-backed startup, will collaborate with Hyundai in promoting its vehicles—including EVs—to rideshare fleets and drivers across key US cities. The program will be available everywhere Firefly is on the road.

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Volkswagen demonstrates first successful real-world use of quantum computing to help optimize traffic routing

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—Abdallah Shanti, Global CIO Volkswagen Brand and CIO Region Americas. The algorithm calculated the fastest route for each individual bus in the fleet and optimized it in near-real time. —Thomas Bartol, senior vice president of Information Technology and Services for Volkswagen Group of America.

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“Insanely frightening and incredibly cool”: What it is really like to catch a self-driving robo-taxi

EV Central

I have an almost disturbing and possibly dangerous love of speed – skiing, driving, roller coasters; the faster it is the more alive I feel – so it came as a slightly embarrassing surprise to find myself properly, squealingly scared at the sedate pace of 30km/h in my self-driving robo-taxi. Because America.

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Gravity to implement 500 kW EV charger ‘trees’ on US streets to grow network larger than Tesla’s

Baua Electric

is a startup focused on sustainable fleets and the infrastructure required to operate them efficiently. At that time, Gravity was already teasing plans to open the “only true fast-charging site in Manhattan” to support the taxis and local EV owners. Gravity Inc.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Where it used to be Hertz or Avis–or a taxi–the choices now are much more complex. However, the company pulled the plug on U.S.

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Car News: 2024 Consumer Electronics Show

Clean Fleet Report

The platforms can be mounted with a pickup or van body, and even a passenger design for a taxi. Timing: PVB production is in South Korea with the North America on-sale date to be announced. Polestar and Google All Polestar vehicles have Google Built-In , but now the technology will have enhanced features.

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24.4 million customers use Daimler’s mobility services

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With car2go, moovel, mytaxi/Intelligent Apps (mytaxi, beat, Clever Taxi and Chauffeur Privé), the mobility portfolio in the segment of Daimler Financial Services counted 24.4 moovel group payment and digital wallet options with Google Pay. The Hop Fastpass app for virtual cards is available for download through the Google Play store.

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