Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have analyzed the cost, energy, and environmental implications of a fleet of self-driving electric vehicles operating in Manhattan. Required fleet size by battery range and charging network. Credit: ACS, Bauer et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Better Place has received an award from the Japanese government to conduct a pilot project in Tokyo for the world’s first electric taxis with switchable batteries. In Tokyo alone, there are approximately 60,000 taxis, a far greater number than in New York, Paris, or Hong Kong. Tokyo R&D Co.,

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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 3, 2012

The 2014 Nissan NV200 Taxi, New York’s Taxi of Tomorrow, will make its global debut tonight at a special event in SoHo with Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn and New York City Mayor Michael R. The new taxi is powered by a proven 2.0L The new taxi is powered by a proven 2.0L Earlier post.).

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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. A fleet of 40 Mobilize Limo will be deployed to validate services set to be made available throughout Europe starting in the second half of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2011

Taxi Medallion Management in Chicago has purchased 12 Ford Transit Connect Taxis running on compressed natural gas (CNG) for its fleet. The purchase is part of the company’s goal of reducing emissions by 25%, said Michael Levine, CEO of Taxi Medallion Management. The taxis have a 39-foot turning radius.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2016

Nissan and La Ciudad del Taxi have announced the world’s largest 100% electric taxi fleet deal that will see 110 Nissan LEAF 30 kWh vehicles providing taxi services in Madrid. The electric taxi market in Europe is growing quickly as taxi operators switch on the benefits of zero emission mobility.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

Volvo Cars is integrating and testing wireless charging technology in a live city environment together with selected partners, evaluating its potential for future electric cars.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 8, 2022

Volvo Cars has announced that it will be testing electric taxis equipped with wireless charging, in “a live city environment” to evaluate the potential of the technology.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

Revel, a startup that unveiled its plans to launch a Tesla Model Y-based rideshare service in New York back in April, recently met a rather bizarre roadblock — one that could result in the company actually buying 50 gas cars before it could deploy its EV fleet. This is a simple math issue.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

The agreement also mentions a conversion initiative of more than 50% of new purchased taxis in Dalian to new energy vehicles in support of the “new energy vehicles promotion and local environment improvement” initiative. BYD electric fleets have logged more than 175 million km (109 million miles) in revenue service).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2011

As part of the 75-EV-RO project, the Rotterdam government plans to purchase 75 new energy vehicles of different types to create a new energy fleet in Rotterdam. The BYD e6 has been used as taxis in Shenzhen, China for more than a year; the fleet of 50 e6 Shenzhen taxis, in service since May 2010, have now surpassed 3 million kilometers (1.86

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Based on the same architecture and proven eCity range-extending technology as LEVC’s TX electric taxi, VN5 can achieve an all-electric range of more than 60 miles (98 km) and a total flexible range of more than 300 miles (489 km). As with ‘TX’ for taxi, the same technical and functional nomenclature strategy has been followed.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

Express del Futuro, a partner-operator of Transmilenio, and BYD unveiled plans for an electric bus fleet in Bogotá, Colombia. In December 2012, BYD Ltd and Praco Didacol (BYD’s Colombian distribution partner) announced that BYD e6s would being placed into Taxi service in Q1 2013 in the Colombian capital as a pilot. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2020

kWh/100km), electric passenger transport has also grown to meet electric mobility requirements: as a hotel shuttle, as a large taxi or vehicle for ride sharing services. The natural environment of the eVito panel van are urban areas. With the new Mercedes-Benz eVito Tourer (power consumption combined: 26.2 eSprinter for Amazon.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2010

Accumulated fuel consumption over Cenex drive cycle for standard London taxi (TX2) and DuoDrive-equipped TX2 (blue line). In recent tests, the DuoDrive taxi demonstrated a 56% improvement in fuel economy compared to a standard London Taxi (TX2), and simulations predict that an improvement of 100% is possible with further optimization.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The document focuses on technologies that could substantially reduce the emissions from the commercial fleet of aircraft. Analysis conducted by BlueSky leveraging R&D efforts from the FAA Office of Environment & Energy (AEE) regarding CO 2 emissions contributions from aircraft technology, operational improvements, and SAF.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2020

With Aeronomie, users can automatically build virtual aircraft using models—which capture the flying environment, the aircraft’s motion and aerodynamics and how it is powered and flown. For example, what effect would a fleet of air taxis operating from a downtown area to the airport have on current traffic?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2019

In 2017, Hyundai’s IONIQ successfully demonstrated autonomous driving technologies in urban environments in Las Vegas at CES. Hyundai also presented a fleet of autonomous vehicles equipped with Level 4 technologies at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2013

The island environment also makes it easier to strategically place charging points so that EV drivers have easy access to reach key destinations. San Diego ranks in the top LEAF cities for many of the same reasons in other California and West Coast markets: state tax incentives, HOV/HOT access and general environment-mindedness.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2016

nuTonomy is positioning itself to be the first company to deliver an autonomous taxi service, and plans to launch a commercial offering in 2018. The company currently operates an R&D fleet of autonomous vehicles in Singapore, where it was the first private company to win governmental approval for testing on public roads.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The production facility will also employ an innovative, on-site paint mixing system designed to achieve optimum color while reducing paint thickness in a controlled environment. The HondaJet completed a simulated taxi and takeoff, and the aircraft’s exterior surface was examined to determine temperature profile.

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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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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

APRIL 22, 2010

Aviation gasoline is utilized in general aviation aircraft with piston engines—which are generally used for instructional flying, air taxi activities, and personal transportation. Lead is not used in jet fuel, the fuel utilized by most commercial aircraft.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The ESOI gain is even greater for fleet vehicles, such as taxis and delivery vans, with higher duty cycles and 500,000 estimated lifetime miles. That’s an 85% increase vs. the 400V silicon carbide MOSFET, due to reduced chip surface area and corresponding energy invested. —John Palmour, chief technology officer at Wolfspeed.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The use of this communications methodology, which is used in vehicle-to-infrastructure communications (in this case vehicle wireless charging assembly), is basically interconnecting wireless charging with the new connected vehicles environment. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2017

There are several factors that will determine how many managers are necessary: for example, how busy the zone is, and what service the vehicle is providing, whether it's for robo-taxis, robo-shuttle, or a robo-delivery vehicle. The backbone of SAM is human/machine teaming. Autonomy for commercial services. Earlier post.). Resilient Cities.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 5, 2009

Solocar, founded by George Raithby, operates a fleet of striking, fully licensed smart fortwo private hire cars in and around Oxford; the cars’ frugal running costs meaning that customers are benefiting from fares that are, on average, 20 per cent cheaper than those of a ‘normal’ taxi or other private hire vehicles.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 1, 2025

Cleaning Up Millions of Liters of Radioactive Waste At the Hanford Site in eastern Washington, radioactive nuclear waste from the development of the first atomic bombs is currently leaking into soil and polluting the surrounding environment. But amid safety concerns and slow scaling, no robotaxi companies have actually achieved a profit.

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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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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 7, 2009

The new city taxi franchise agreement calls for alternative fuel or high mileage vehicles to replace 25% of the fleet. Our northern California water has been cut 30% to protect the environment and Delta smelt fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta. I’ll be ready when they are.

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EV Central

JULY 5, 2023

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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The project will include 15 Nissan cars, 10 Smith electric taxis, five Smith people carriers, a Smith executive minibus, two AVID saloon cars and two Liberty urban Range Rovers, alongside a network of charging points. The trial will evaluate the technical and social aspects of living with an all-electric vehicle in a real world environment.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2024

The platforms can be mounted with a pickup or van body, and even a passenger design for a taxi. Vinfast is looking for small success The VF Wild ( Clean Fleet Report loves the name!) Whether it is called a Robot Taxi or Driverless Taxi, Zoox wants to stress “The Future Is For Riders…not drivers.” Story by John Faulkner.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2016

We will need 150 gigawatt hours of battery capacity by 2025 for our own e-fleet alone— which would make for a massive procurement volume. Other services such as robo-taxis, carsharing and transport on-demand will then be grouped around this nucleus. After all, battery technology is the key to e-mobility. Earlier post.).

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