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London Taxi relaunches as London EV Company; order for 225 vehicles from The Netherlands

Green Car Congress

London Taxi Company (LTC) has relaunched as London EV Company (LEVC), marking the next stage in the company’s transformation. Underpinned by an investment totalling £325 million (US$420 million), LEVC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Geely, intends to be the urban commercial vehicle provider of choice for cities around the world.

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Geely raises $400M via Green Bonds sale to develop and produce TX5 range-extended electric London taxis

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LTC is also working on several zero-emission model concepts, including light commercial vehicles as part of ZGH’s plans to significantly raise production at LTC and position it as a leading manufacturer of green and environmentally friendly transportation. The final order book of more than US$2.3 million (US$25.4 million (US$67.5-million)

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Volkswagen and Qatar to put autonomous electric vehicles on Doha roads in 2022

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The goal is to develop a ground-breaking autonomous transport project and transform the future of urban mobility to a sustainable and commercial deployment of AD shuttles and bus services. In the future, VWCV will therefore be developing and producing corresponding Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV), such as robo-taxis and robo-vans.

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April 2023 – Plug-in car market share continues to grow in Norway

Push EVs

Although these introduced some BEV taxes for the first time, mostly falling on heavy and expensive BEV models, taxes fell harder still on vehicles with CO2 emissions. PHEVs, with their middling emissions ratings, are taxed somewhere in between.

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Barcelona: An E-Mobility Living Lab

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While EV-sharing is not fully a thing yet in Barcelona, there are a couple of car-sharing services offering both pure and hybrid EVs alongside conventional vehicles: Cabify, a hybrid service somewhere between a taxi company and car-sharing app Bluemove, a car-sharing app started in 2010 and already in Madrid, Barcelona, and Seville.

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Tata Tiago EV Small hatchback released: Our take

Plug In India

Not only are we seeing more congestion, given our limited road space, but we are also seeing more emissions, given our ever increasing carbon footprints. My guess is that sound economics like this will see the Tiago easily achieving between 50 K to 100 K bookings in the first few weeks itself.

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The Kiwi business journey to Carbon Zero

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Lower your company-wide emissions with sustainable vehicles. Businesses big and small will play a vital role in reducing New Zealand’s carbon emissions through the transition to more sustainable transport. Businesses in NZ are setting new targets for their fleets to reduce CO2 emissions and driving down fleet costs.

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