Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Uber is adding more polluting car trips to already-clogged European cities such as London and Paris, new analysis by European NGOs suggests —contributing to air pollution and climate change and exploding the company’s sustainability claims. Source: “Europe’s giant ‘taxi’ company: is Uber part of the problem or the solution?”.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

Using models they built and data from more than 10 million taxi trips in New York City, they found that the cost of service provided by a fleet of shared automated electric vehicles (SAEVs) would be $0.29-$0.61 per revenue mile—an order of magnitude lower than the cost of service of present-day Manhattan taxis and $0.05–$0.08/mi

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2021

Mobilize will unveil Limo, a 4.67m four-door fully-electric sedan, specifically designed for for taxi/private hire (PHV) drivers and fleet, at Munich IAA Mobility 2021. Mobilize Limo is the result of the joint venture created by Renault Group and Jiangling Motors Group Co., Ltd (JMCG) in 2018.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Hyundai’s air mobility arm Supernal plans to put its new S-A2 aircraft into production in 2028 ahead of what it expects to be a huge increase in demand for electric aircraft as an alternative to taxis in cities. Donckerwolke told Autocar UK that designing aircraft instead of cars was “like being in a bigger toy store”. “I

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2018

The BMW Group and Daimler AG have signed an agreement to merge their mobility services business units. Together, the BMW Group and Daimler AG plan to grow this new business model sustainably and enable rapid global scaling of services. Charging with ChargeNow and Digital Charging Solutions: Easy access (incl.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

Mercedes-Benz Mobility and BMW Group intend to sell their car-sharing joint venture SHARE NOW to Stellantis. SHARE NOW was established in 2019 combines the DNA of car2go, which was developed by the former Daimler AG, and DriveNow, the BMW Group’s offering. Free2move also operates car sharing in Europe (Paris and Madrid).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2013

BYD announced the launch of Hong Kong’s first all-electric taxi fleet using the BYD e6 electric cross-over sedan. Hongkong first pure electric taxi fleet. Hongkong first pure electric taxi fleet. BYD also announced that the e6 “Taxi version” and e6 “Premier” sedan were now officially on sale in Hong Kong.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

The City of Bogota, Colombia, has launched a pilot project to spur the use of electric vehicles in Bogota’s center-city taxi fleet. The first taxis are expected to be operational in the city in the next few months. —Jay Carson, CEO, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. 677 to support the project over a three-year period.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2016

China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (ZGH) has raised $400 million through the first Green Bond sale on the offshore market from a Chinese automobile company to support the design, development and production of range-extended electric vehicles by its UK subsidiary, the LondonTaxi Company (LTC), manufacturer of the iconic London Black Cab.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The engineers who departed from Apple were hired by startups working on air taxis. . Rogers was hired by air taxi startup Joby Aviation Inc. Alex Clarabut, who served as Apple’s engineering manager for the long-rumored electric car’s battery systems group, left for Archer Aviation , another air taxi company.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The Volkswagen Group and global mobility provider Gett announced their strategic partnership in May this year. A survey conducted among Gett drivers who own their taxis pinpointed drivers’ specific requirements and vehicle preferences, to ensure maximum value to Gett’s driver-partners. Earlier post.) 30 percent).

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2023

In metropolitan areas that struggle with traffic congestion, these aircraft would displace some car commuting and also some short-haul flights. Our Texas-based group is focusing on three of these issues: autonomy, communications, and standards. The working group plans to release the draft standard by the end of 2023.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Hyundai Motor Group, which is driving a software-driven transformation for its Group brands (Hyundai, Kia and Genesis) today announced its ‘Software-defined Everything’ (SDx) strategy, which aims to transform all moving devices, fleets and ecosystems into valuable assets through advanced software and AI.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2010

Forty battery-electric taxis-based on BYD’s e6—officially entered service in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. Shenzhen is the first city to officially put electric taxis in operation in China, according to Hu Jianping, president of Shenzhen Bus Group (SBG) at the launch ceremony.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 14, 2024

Many Chinese makers of electric cars are introducing advanced assisted driving features on their mass-production cars. The world’s largest experiment in driverless cars is underway on the busy streets of Wuhan, a city in central China with 11 million people, 4.5 Surveys by J.D. Then there are the safety issues.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 3, 2022

Last week was an exciting week for electric car news. Scroll down below to see a plethora of positive electric car stories Electric Car News Mercedes-Benz USA announces pricing for new all-electric AMG EQS sedan Bosch battery services […].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2018

Volvo Cars is becoming more than just a car company. We recognize that urban consumers are rethinking traditional car ownership. —Håkan Samuelsson, Volvo Cars president and chief executive. The services currently available mainly offer alternatives to a taxi or public transit. M is part of our answer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

Thriev , a company offering zero-emission, chauffeured cars to corporate and private users in London, is adding 20. BYD e6 electric cars to the fleet. Last month, the Mayor of London announced that from 1 January 2018, all new taxis would have to be zero-emission capable in order to gain an operating licence. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2022

The funding is intended to support municipal and commercial fleets such as vehicle fleets, company cars, taxis, mobility and sharing services in an accelerated switch to alternative drives. Taxis and courier services in particular have an enormously high mileage of thousands of kilometers a year—especially in our inner cities.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

Electric cars are becoming an attractive business proposition for high-mileage vehicle operators such as ride-sharer Uber in key EU capitals such as Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Lisbon, a new study by research and campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) has found. This is a win-win-win situation for drivers, citizens and the planet.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In the Helsinki study, motorized road trips (private car, bus and taxi) were replaced by different configurations of 6-seater Shared Taxis that provide on-demand door-to-door service and Taxi-Buses that offer a street corner-to-street corner service booked 30 minutes in advance.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2018

Volvo Cars is becoming more than just a car company. We recognize that urban consumers are rethinking traditional car ownership. —Håkan Samuelsson, Volvo Cars president and chief executive. The services currently available mainly offer alternatives to a taxi or public transit. M is part of our answer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2020

Autonomie is currently licensed by more than 275 organizations worldwide for use in developing more energy-efficient vehicles and supporting research into electric and hybrid cars and trucks. There are massive differences between a car and an aircraft. How many cars would be taken out of the system? Prabhakar et al.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 18, 2024

In early 2023, Car Buzz reported that it had sniffed out paperwork pointing to Hyundai’s plans to equip its Ionic 5 EV with wireless charging capability.) By 2020, we noted , a partnership had been worked out between Jaguar , Momentum Dynamics , Nordic taxi operator Cabonline , and charging company Fortam Recharge. times that range.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Yunnan Investment Holdings Group and BYD intend to open new energy vehicle manufacturing plants in Yunnan Province, expanding BYD’s EV and new-energy businesses into southwest China and neighboring Asian countries. The BYD-Yunnan cooperation will follow three stages over the coming year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2019

The new release unlocks the tools developers need to create reliable self-driving mobility solutions such as robo-taxis and autonomous delivery services. Open Source V2X and Robo-taxis. Apollo 3.5 is the first open source autonomous driving platform that can perform in complex urban and suburban driving scenarios.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2016

China-based automaker Geely has launched Lynk & Co —a new global car brand designed and engineered in Sweden; every model will feature an electrified powertrain. Geely claims that the SUV will be the most connected car to date, built around an open API and inviting developers’ creative ideas to enrich the automotive experience.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2016

Volkswagen Group CEO Matthias Müller presented the company’s new new strategic plan—TOGETHER - Strategy 2025—in Wolfsburg. The Group is planning a broad-based initiative in this area: it intends to launch more than 30 purely battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) over the next ten years. —Matthias Müller.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 5, 2024

A system deployed in 2020 with a fleet of Jaguar I-Pace taxis in Oslo, Norway, was able to achieve 50 kw in 6-8 minute bursts. inch gap between the coils on the car and the ground. The lab will continue to work with VW Group of America to bring the system closer to production readiness, but no firm timeline was given.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

When a car company employs star power it usually means it’s called in an some sort of celebrity to spruik its latest new model. It is understood to be based on a new electric structure separate from the SEA platform used by various Geely group BEVs including the Zeekr 001. It also has shares in smart and the Malaysian car-maker Proton.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2018

On the eve of the 2018 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, Volkswagen Group announced that it its joint-venture partners will invest around €15 billion ($18.3 As the world’s biggest automotive market, China plays a prominent role across all Group brands. Volkswagen Group China’s joint ventures will play key roles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2019

As a center of excellence for autonomous driving from Level 4 up, VWAT will serve to build up know-how within the Group and bring a self-driving system (SDS) to market maturity. VWCV in Hanover is the leading brand within the Group for Autonomous Driving, Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), and Transport-as-a-Service (TaaS).

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Teslarati

JULY 31, 2023

As the initiative hits its momentum , the Model Y units will be provided to affiliate companies of Hinomaru Motors’ wireless group as well. With the Model Y’s impending arrival , Uber Japan will be launching a menu on its app’s car model selection screen that should allow customers to request for the Tesla crossover.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 3, 2024

It also has a working relationship with Volkswagen Group ever since subsidiary Porsche Engineering Group GmbH acquired a 10-percent stake in the Croatian company. The electric hypercar company was developing an autonomous taxi based around the Renault Espace minivan. Though Rimac does seem fairly serious about the concept.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2018

a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Commercial Vehicle Group, to co-develop a medium-duty extended range electric truck. Zhejiang Geely Commercial Vehicle (GCV) is a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (ZGH). VIA Motors International is partnering with China-based Zhejiang Geely New Energy Vehicle Co. Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 27, 2012

Electric vehicles could soon become commonplace in the Colombian city of Bogota, after a project was introduced to spearhead an electric taxi fleet. The project was put together by the Clinton Climate Initiative Cities programme, and its partner the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group.

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Teslarati

JUNE 14, 2022

These include grants for trucks, taxis, vans, motorcycles, and wheelchair-accessible vehicles that will remain in place, for now, Yahoo reports. However, with inflation and gas prices at record highs globally, this could affect quite a large group of consumers. link] pic.twitter.com/PWoArc35C8.

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