Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Fleet Planning Simulator is a cloud-based tool that enables an operator to simulate the addition of EVs into existing or new operations, optimize vehicle range, plan charging infrastructure, optimize fleet operations and run complete Total Cost of Ownership analysis. City and municipal transportation planners.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2015

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found that the per-mile greenhouse gas emissions of an electric autonomous taxi in 2030 would be 63-82% lower than a projected 2030 hybrid vehicle driven as a privately owned car and 90% lower than a 2014 gasoline-powered private vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

Personal cars and taxi fleets in China are now adopting this technology as well with ambitious targets set by companies for rolling out their own swap station networks. IDTechEx research suggests that on average, decoupling the cost of the battery from the electric vehicle can reduce the purchase price of EVs by 20%.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Smith said its decision to locate a facility in Chicago was influenced by the Mayor’s innovative voucher system created to accelerate the conversion from diesel to zero-emission, all-electric commercial vehicles, the large number of fleets interested in vehicle electrification, and the development incentives made available to Smith.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Taxi Affiliation Services (TAS), which operates Yellow Cab Chicago, has awarded Clean Energy Fuels Corp. a new 10-year contract to build and operate two new CNG fueling stations and sell fuel to the company’s growing CNG taxi fleet. Yellow Cab Chicago and its affiliates plan an initial deployment of 100 new CNG taxis.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Some of these have been put to use in taxi fleets in such cities as San Francisco and New York, with some taxi vehicles attaining more than 250,000 miles individually and taxi fleets in California alone attaining a total of nearly 100 million miles. Taenaka, B., and Snyder, K.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Awards include (ranked by amount): PHL Taxi Management LLC —$900,000 – to purchase and deploy 50 new CNG taxis in Philadelphia that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and to build a publicly accessible CNG fueling station in the city. The company intends to use natural gas in its fleet of trash and recycle trucks.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Hyundai Motor signed the MOU with South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy as well as Hyundai Glovis, LG Energy Solution and KST Mobility for the rental of electric taxi batteries and the sustainable reuse of EV batteries in energy storage systems (ESS). KST Mobility then pays a monthly fee for battery usage.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2012

A CNG vehicle, such as a taxi, bus or small truck, can then refill its tank using a traditional fuel dispenser, much like those used for diesel or gasoline refueling. A vehicle using CNG can reduce annual fuel costs up to 40 percent, assuming 25,700 miles per year driven, gasoline priced at $3.50/gallon gallon and CNG at $2.09/gasoline

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Teslarati

JUNE 25, 2021

Earlier this week, there was plenty of talk about the Revel taxi fleet in New York City, comprised of 50 Tesla Model Y all-electric crossovers that would contribute to the ride-sharing services that the Big Apple has long been accustomed to over the past century. New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission: A Giant Game of Telephone.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Ammonia-based, fuel cell distributed power units to lower cost of cell phone telecommunication (Ammonia for Power = A4P). Fuel Cell London Taxi Demonstrator Programme. This project will contribute to the vehicle certification and demonstration of Intelligent Energy’s current work on the Zero Emission London Taxi. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

While compressed natural gas (CNG) will play a role, particularly for high-mileage fleets, the report suggests that the chemical conversion of gas into some form of liquid fuel may be the best pathway to significant market penetration. These include short-range, heavy-duty vehicles (e.g., Tcf/year, equivalent to 1.3 million bpd of oil.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

In May 2017, Reno, Nevada, boasted that it is laying the groundwork for the industry’s first driverless bus program, launching a three-phase process to roll out a full fleet in its downtown area. Moreover, technological innovations have helped lower the overall costs of cars while disposable income in many countries has increased.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

An alternate storyline might highlight the elevated upfront opportunity costs of reducing energy dependency and greenhouse gas emissions via electric cars as opposed to advanced internal combustion engine vehicles and hybrids. personal or societal expenses), as well as how far the car is driven and how much the battery costs to produce.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In addition to the environmental considerations, heavy-duty electric trucks offer additional benefits such as reduced cost of ownership, as well as labor cost savings and increased safety by providing autonomous piloting in closed working environments.

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Teslarati

JUNE 8, 2021

In its Big Ideas 2021 report, ARK Invest predicted that consumers would be willing to pay 25 cents per mile for autonomous taxi rides. The investment management firm believes that rideshare services would eventually become cheaper for consumers compared to the costs of owning and operating a personal vehicle. Elon Musk: Tesla FSD V.9

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2022

The funding of this zero-emission private hire fleet follows the successful pay-per-mile funding of taxis that Zeti previously delivered in London using MEEF funds. The Breathe fleet will replace existing gasoline, diesel and hybrid vehicles with Uber which is aiming to be an all-electric platform in London from 2025 onwards.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

In addition, China also possesses an advantage in electric motors, which is partly due to its position as the dominant producer of rare earth.Rare earth materials, specifically neodymium, contribute approximately 30 percent of the material cost of permanent magnet motors, one of the key motor types used in electric propulsion systems.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Its anticipated disruptive impact on traditional transportation modes such as car ownership, buses, trains, aviation, taxis, and rental cars is stirring up not just the automotive but also the entire transportation industry. —Dominique Bonte, Managing Director and Vice President at ABI Research.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Three factors—technology, regulatory mandates, and consumer cost of ownership—will shape the changeover, which BCG expects to play out over three phases and about a dozen years: Phase 1. The low cost of gasoline in the US will yield similar results.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

First, in 2010, Ford will introduce an advanced liquid-injection LPG system for the Ford Falcon, making the Falcon more attractive to private, taxi and fleet markets. Ford Australia also announced that as a result of changing global economic conditions, the company has ended plans to manufacture the Ford Focus in Australia.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The plan also includes investments for charging stations to support ZEV bus fleets and ride hail services, as well as residential and autonomous vehicle charging. Electrify America also will invest in DCFC stations specifically targeting shared mobility drivers: car share, taxis, and transportation networking company (TNC) drivers.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 18, 2022

Electric vehicles are gaining in popularity around the world, especially with the high cost of fuel. But some of the current EV models aren’t a good fit for owners who can’t wait around for hours for their batteries to charge, such as taxi drivers, delivery people, and ride-hailing services.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

Access initiatives like ride‐and‐ drive events, and an additional approximately ~$16 million spent on the operational costs of running Electrify America (e.g., Electrify America has identified three potential Green City initiatives on which to focus: ZEV car‐sharing, ZEV delivery fleet, and ZEV taxi fleet provider.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2018

million electric vehicles in use across London, the East and South East of England where UK Power Networks delivers electricity—including London’s buses and taxis. By 2030 it is anticipated that there will be up to 1.9 This could significantly increase peak demand for electricity.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The program is expected to expand to more shuttle vehicles in Dearborn—potentially increasing ridership as Ford tests the performance of the software and gathers fleet data. The Dynamic Shuttle solution could fill the gap between a taxi service and public busing in cities around the globe.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2016

Supporting the purchase of 22 new trucks powered by natural gas and installing about 12 particulate filters in the rest of the diesel truck fleet, thus making Haifa the first city in Israel to operate a low-pollution garbage collection fleet. Supporting the operation of 500 electric taxis through financial incentives.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties. The award includes a $652,664 match-funding requirement.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Two autonomous taxis, from Pony.ai So far, around three in every 100 taxis there are robotaxis, developed by Baidu s autonomous car division, Apollo Go. Meanwhile, Baidu leads in driving down the cost of robotaxi journeys. mile) ride in a robotaxi in Wuhan costs between 4 and 16 yuan ($0.60 A 10-kilometer (6.2-mile)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Electric Air Taxis/ Electric Vertical Take-off & Landing (eVTOL) - The future of electric air taxis, or electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL), is perhaps the most uncertain due to high regulatory barriers as well as technical. Battery Demand From Non-automotive EV Sectors in 2021. Electric Two-wheelers - 9 GWh.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2015

DOE is seeking novel approaches to reduce the cost of fiber-reinforced composite pipeline for hydrogen delivery. The vehicle fleet applications of interest are commercial vehicles that return to their fleet facility at the end of their daily shift operations.

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Electric Vehicles India

MAY 6, 2021

India’s electric four-wheeler ride-hailing fleet incentives. Let us look in detail at India’s electric four-wheeler incentives for ride-hailing fleets. . As there was no sufficient financial incentives for electric vehicles (BEVs) provided and the cost of electric vehicles and fast charging opportunity. billion, $52.5

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

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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Baua Electric

JUNE 19, 2024

Ampersand’s innovative approach addresses environmental concerns and provides practical solutions for the millions of motorcycle taxi riders who rely on these vehicles for their livelihood. Since its inception in 2016, Ampersand has built the largest electric motorcycle fleet in East Africa.

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Blink Charging

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Thanks to your conversations with your electrician, your team will know ahead of time if your location requires upgrades and how much they will affect the overall cost of electrification. However, there are funding options available to help alleviate these costs.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 30, 2023

Revel aims to promote EV adoption in cities by solving two interrelated problems: The company’s rideshare fleet generates demand to justify the cost of installing DC fast chargers, and its charging Superhub ensures that the fleet stays charged, while also offering charging to the public.

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

Norway’s adaptive approach to infrastructure has also included commercial transport, with wireless charging made available to taxis in 2018, cutting the time needed to find a charger, plug in and wait to charge. By 2023, all taxis are set to be emission-free and the wireless system will help support this goal. What Are the Takeaways?

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