Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

Nanjing, China and Nanjing Public Transportation Group ordered more than 1,000 fully electric transit buses and taxis from BYD Company Ltd. Nanjing Jiangnan Electric Taxi Ltd. The city will be taking delivery of more than 600 BYD K9 battery-electric Buses, 50 of which were delivered for the city’s Youth Olympic Games in August 2014.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2021

Additional potential features include emergency auto-landing system; intelligent algorithm ensuring envelope protection; terrain avoidance and routing for emergency auto-land; and an option for supplemental power solar cells and in-wheel electric taxi. Details will be forthcoming when the agreements are finalized.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2019

Bosch is working on sensor technology for air taxis. The Boston Consulting Group predicts that people around the world will take 1 billion flights in air taxis in 2030, once sharing services have also established a presence on fixed routes above the ground; most of those air taxis will be capable of operating without a pilot.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A group of airports in Italy and France are banding together to create electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) veliport infrastructure to speed the deployment of quicker, carbon-free air taxi transportation between their respective city centers and passenger terminals.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2020

AutoFlightX is an eVTOL air-cargo and air-taxi company headquartered in Munich, with R&D centers in Shanghai and Shenzhen, China. AutoFlightX believes their 1000 kg platform will ultimately pave the path to air taxis, which will hold up to four passengers and have a range of >300 km with a single charge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2019

Continental technologies such as ABS, radar and redundant brake system are being used in series production for robo-taxis for first time. Continental’s braking portfolio includes suitable technologies for robo-taxis, such as the MK C1 one-box brake system. Continental has held a stake in this driverless vehicle manufacturer since 2017.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

His plans call for piloting curbside fast chargers and working with the City Council to amend the Building Code so that up to 20% of all new public parking spaces in private developments will be wired and ready for electric vehicles, creating up to 10,000 parking spots for electric vehicles over the next seven years.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

have established a partnership to provide platform services for the taxi industry. The partnership will utilize DiDi’s advanced AI technologies to build ride-hailing platforms to enhance efficiency for both taxi operators and drivers. In 2017, taxi drivers completed 1.1 In 2017, taxi drivers completed 1.1

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Better Place, with support from the US Department of Transportation via the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, has committed to bring a switchable battery, electric taxi program to the Bay Area in partnership with the cities of San Francisco and San Jose. The pilot project began on 26 April, in cooperation with Nihon Kotsu Co.,

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 15, 2021

Ample announced last week that it's partnering with Sally—a firm that organizes vehicle rentals for taxi, ride-sharing, and last-mile delivery services—to design and build battery-swapping stations in major cities like San Francisco, Los.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Nissan began a field test of new mobility services as part of a partnership to promote future community building in Japan. It includes home delivery of packages using “spoke” vehicle such as EV taxis and utilizing Japan Post vehicles for efficient delivery, as well as roadside station pickup of purchases from supermarkets.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2016

The Japan Federation of Hire-Taxi Associations and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to study on areas for collaboration, so as to develop and introduce the Japanese taxi of the future. Toyota is now developing a next-generation taxi. Enhancement of advanced safety systems.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

Voyage, a startup in the autonomous taxi space, entered into a long-term strategic partnership with Renovo, a mobility technology company, to license Renovo’s AWare OS for use across its global fleet of automated vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The goal of Archer’s electric air taxi network is to provide passengers with safe, quick, quiet and cost-effective transportation to and from EWR. Once these primary trunk routes have been established, Archer will begin building out “branch” routes to connect to surrounding communities.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Ricardo is recruiting taxi drivers in Brighton to trial the app and will use its connected fleet management system—a digital tool which monitors the performance of a fleet of vehicles—to analyze the impact of the app on air quality.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 18, 2021

The Hyundai air taxi could be testing with Uber in just a few years. And an EV startup reveals its production partner—and plans to build its EVs in. Mazda has a multi-tier strategy for electrifying its cars this decade, including a dedicated EV platform by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2021

The brand plans to develop and build Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV), such as robo-taxis and vans. The commercial vehicle brand is responsible for the development of fully autonomous systems and their commercial use in urban areas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

The strategic partnership will bring together the innovation of Kitty Hawk’s Cora air taxi division with Boeing’s scale and aerospace expertise. Cora is an electric, autonomous fully fledged air taxi that takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane. Kitty Hawk Corp.,

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Electric air taxis are not going to take over transportation. We won’t have swarms of aircraft risking collision and devastating crashes into buildings. continued] The post New Autonomous Air Taxi Trial in Thailand appeared first on CleanTechnica. However, I do believe that electric air.

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Teslarati

JUNE 24, 2021

Revel CEO Frank Reig called out “shortsighted bureaucracy and entrenched interests” for blocking the Tesla Model Y New York City taxi fleet that the company planned to launch. On Tuesday, the NYC TLC successfully blocked Revel from launching a Model Y taxi fleet by an overwhelming five-to-one vote. Credit: Revel.

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Teslarati

MAY 6, 2021

The NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) recently approved its pilot program to introduce more battery electric vehicles (BEVs) to the yellow taxi industry. Gravity means to participate in TLC’s BEV pilot program with a fleet of Tesla Model Y taxis. seconds are eligible to join the program. Credit: Gravity ).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

ALTe already has Gen 1 proof-of-concept systems running in a Crown Vic taxi equipped with a 20 kWh Li-ion battery pack. Another benefit of targeting a conversion application such as the taxi fleet is that the vehicles are all out of warranty, Thomas noted.). Gen1 System installed in a Crown Vic. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Uber and Hyundai Motor Company announced a new partnership to develop Uber Air Taxis for a future aerial ride share network and unveiled a new full-scale aircraft concept at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2011

Air Products has signed a contract with Sorensen Gross Construction Services to build a hydrogen fueling station in Flint, Michigan to fuel a hydrogen fuel cell bus owned by Flint’s Mass Transportation Authority (MTA). The station, which will be part of the MTA’s alternative fuels test program, is to be onstream in April 2012.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2016

At 31,000 square metres, the Ansty facility will now be 50% larger than originally planned to accommodate the enhanced R&D centre and additional technical facilities alongside the production line to build the new TX5. In January 2016, a consortium led by the London Taxi Company was awarded an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) grant of £17.5

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Electrek

JANUARY 19, 2022

The air-taxi infrastructure hopefuls at Skyportz have expanded their plans to provide eVTOL takeoff and landing sites throughout Australia by partnering an with airport and parking garage that’s looking for a new lifeline.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 22, 2017

The London Taxi Company recently completed a U.K. factory that will build a new version of. Few vehicles are as iconic as the London black cab, known the world over for its upright shape and ubiquity (although many of them aren't black any more).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

BYD entered the Colombian market in 2012 and made several milestone achievements: building the first pure electric taxi fleet in South America in 2013, entering the Bogotá BRT system in 2017. There are currently 483 electric buses in TRANSMILENIO S.A, —Lara Zhang, Regional Director of BYD Latin America.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

A team of engineers from the University of Lincoln, with funding from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), has confirmed the feasibility of aircraft regenerate braking from the landing gear to provide power for taxiing to and from airport buildings, reducing the need to use jet engines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The 100 Midi-E vehicles will be in service as taxis in the Yanqing area of Beijing in 2012. e.motor Advance established a new facility last year located in Beijing’s Yizhuang economic zone and plans to start construction of a new manufacturing facility next year with a capacity to build 30,000 units per year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

2) We build a technical database containing parameters related to different travel tools, such as initial cost, operation and maintenance cost, life cycle, fuel price, energy efficiency level, annual mileage, and passenger load rate for vehicles that distinguish between fuel types and energy efficiency levels for each travel mode and vehicle.

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JUNE 19, 2023

A new study from RMIT finds that increased wind gusts around city buildings may be a show stopper for air taxis and a Jetsons style future. The post Air taxis might fail to take off, study warns, if wind gust threat keeps them grounded appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The partners will build a 2MW electrolysis plant with appurtenant hydrogen storage. The plant will use electricity from offshore wind turbines to produce renewable hydrogen for buses, trucks and potentially taxis.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2022

This permit builds upon other recent autonomous driving milestones for Pony.ai In April 2022, Pony received a permit for non-fare charging robotaxi rides in Beijing and received a license to operate as a taxi service in Guangzhou, becoming the first and only AV company to receive a taxi license in China. In July 2022, Pony.ai

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 25, 2020

And there will be 25 fully electric taxis in Oslo, Norway, that might not need to connect to a. The Lordstown Endurance electric pickup is due to take a bow in production prototype form today, and we ask its CEO some big-picture questions about its future.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

BYD’s arrival to Indonesia is expected to help electrify taxi fleets. At least that’s what Indonesia’s largest taxi operator, PT Blue Bird, thinks. “We Tesla’s Elon Musk considering building EV plant in Indonesia: official According to Bloomberg , PT Blue Bird launched electric taxis in its fleet in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Japan-based Toyota Tsusho Corporation, a Toyota group company, is considering building a strategic partnership for the promotion and operation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure business in China. China Potevio builds and operates infrastructure for charging electric vehicles in China through its subsidiaries.

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