Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

A study by researchers from the University of Denver and the University of Puget Sound indicates that high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected based on their actual numbers in the fleet.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A Bloomfield, Michigan startup is developing light- and medium-duty series plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powertrain systems—initially as conversions, but ultimately extending to an OEM basis. ALTe already has Gen 1 proof-of-concept systems running in a Crown Vic taxi equipped with a 20 kWh Li-ion battery pack. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Among the top-level findings and estimates: CARB staff estimates that the 2018 TNC vehicle fleet emitted 301 gCO 2 /PMT, approximately 50% higher than the statewide passenger vehicle fleet average of 203 gCO 2 /PMT. Total 2018 TNC fleet electric VMT (eVMT) is about 33.7 of the total VMT generated by the TNC fleet.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

With more than 550 electric taxis on European roads, Nissan is now Europe’s best-selling manufacturer of 100% electric taxis. During 2015, more than 100 electric vehicles were delivered to taxi companies across Europe. Top five Nissan e-taxi countries in Europe by registrations. Green Lite Taxi Kft., Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The agreement also involves the management of Hertz’s charging infrastructure by bp pulse and the customization of its Omega software to ensure Hertz’s growing fleet of electric rental cars are recharged quickly and efficiently between rentals.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Singapore will implement a new Carbon Emissions-Based Vehicle Scheme (CEV) on 1 January 2012, providing rebates to qualified new cars, taxis, and imported used cars with low carbon emissions, and imposing an equivalent surcharge on higher emitting vehicles. CEV bandings (Singapore dollars).

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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

JANUARY 31, 2011

BAF’s alternative fuel vehicle upfitting capabilities include aftermarket compressed natural gas (CNG) conversions of Ford-manufactured vans, cutaway shuttles, taxis, pick-ups and light-duty trucks. The company’s aftermarket systems ensure that current natural gas vehicles (NGVs) are available for domestic light-duty fleets.

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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

MAY 22, 2016

In addition to a new light-weight aluminium body structure and composite paneling, the TX5 benefits from a range-extended battery-electric vehicle system. In January 2016, a consortium led by the London Taxi Company was awarded an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) grant of £17.5 million (US$25.4 million (US$67.5-million)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Characteristics of the Tianjin fleet found by the team’s vehicle activity study included: The total distance traveled by all vehicles in Tianjin was about 38 million kilometers (23.6 Most of the light-duty vehicles were equipped with multi-point fuel injection systems and three-way catalytic converters. million miles) per day.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

ALTe is targeting fleet vehicles such as delivery trucks, vans and shuttle buses and even potentially taxis and limos, in the light- to medium-duty vehicle classes—initially as conversions, but ultimately extending to an OEM basis. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) kWh Li-ion pack from A123 Systems. —John Thomas.

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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. Under this system autonomous vehicles will be able to better communicate with traffic lights. Apollo 3.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The aim of the project is to build, install, operate and demonstrate a 10 kW Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Combined Heat & Power system in a high profile demonstration programme to accelerate the development and potential for commercial exploitation in large domestic (multi-dwelling) and light commercial applications. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

These projects put more than 9,000 alternative fuel and energy-efficient light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles on the road, and establish 542 refueling locations across the country. The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2009

ALTe’s initial focus is on vehicles of light-to-medium duty fleets (such as taxis), which will obtain the greatest benefit of converting older, out-of-warranty vehicles from gasoline-powered engines to the REEV powertrain platform. This ultimately reduces emissions and operating costs for fleet vehicle users.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has required Cruise to halt all operations of its driverless taxis in San Francisco after one of the company’s vehicles hit a pedestrian earlier this month. Following two Cruise accidents in the city, authorities required the company to cut its fleet in half.

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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 16, 2017

The upcoming SAE J2954 Recommended Practice will enable a seamless, automated standard methodology to charge for individual vehicles to fleets of autonomous vehicles and their infrastructures. Another phase is to enable an infrastructure for autonomous fleets of vehicles (such as taxis,etc.) to be able to autonomously charge.

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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. MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles. Tcf/year, equivalent to 1.3

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

By 2003, all buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws in Delhi were retrofitted to run on CNG; only new vehicles with CNG engines are now available. (Of In Delhi, there are more than 55,000 CNG auto-rickshaws for hire, providing flexible mobility that is faster and more reliable than city buses while costing less than conventional taxis.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2015

A fleet of shared self-driving cars in Stockholm could reduce rush hour traffic volumes by 14 cars for every shared vehicle, according to researchers at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Already in Stockholm taxi traffic accounts for half the total traffic, with about 272,000 such trips daily.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

Westport believes that the amalgamation will create the largest product portfolio and largest market presence in the North American light duty natural gas vehicle (NGV) space. Westport and Clean Energy also announced a $5-million joint marketing and sales program.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The second will be an electric version of Renault Kangoo Express, intended primarily for fleet and business use. This LED-equipped spoiler also serves as a brake light, as does the integrated light in the shark’s fin-type aerial on the roof. Derived from the Twizy ZE Concept, the third vehicle will target urban mobility.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

In this phase, Volvo Cars will both expand the test fleet 20-fold (from about 50 cars to 1,000) and broaden the test area to include two big Scandinavian cities: Gothenburg and Oslo. We’re also adding a hazard-light alert, which will tell drivers if another vehicle in the area has its hazard lights on.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Over the past year, Honda Aircraft has completed various flight, systems and structural tests including: crew seat crash tests, speedbrake testing, ultimate load tests, EASA windshield bird strike testing, wind tunnel icing tests, night lighting testing, etc. Hot-weather flight tests were conducted in Yuma, Ariz.,

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In addition, eight OEMs have light-duty vehicle testing planned to begin in third quarter for WPT 1-3 which is scheduled to be completed in 2018. The first stage, for light duty vehicles, creates an infrastructure based on J2954 (for example in malls, large workplaces, condominium complexes, etc). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

Permits: discounts for LEVs to operate in low emission zones and for residents; preferential permits for LEV taxis. Procurement: local authorities specifying LEVs for their own fleets and setting leading standards for their service providers. Planning: embedding consideration for LEV fuelling infrastructure into local development.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2012

However, that figure represents less than 1% of the total light duty vehicle market in China. The HEV cars were sold mostly to individual consumers while PHEVs were sold to taxi fleets in Shenzhen and Beijing, as well as to some. Battery-electric (BEVs) will outsell. and buses accounting for 27.6% (or more than 2,000 units).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Estimating the energy consumption of each EV type requires technical modeling of vehicle efficiency over selected test cycles, such as the Worldwide Harmonized Test Cycle (WLTC) for personal light-duty vehicles, and other models for different vehicle use cases. The modeling accounted for vehicle-specific parameters such as weight and drag.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 11, 2024

CEO Elon Musk pulled back the curtain on the car, but the presentation was light on detail and didn’t do much to excite investors. The taxi has a sleek two-door design with only two seats. The automaker sees a future where buyers could operate fleets of Robotaxis, kind of like smaller rideshare companies.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2015

This FOA also includes demonstration topic areas that will help to accelerate adoption of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies with specific interest in mobile hydrogen refuelers; fuel cell powered range extenders for light duty hybrid electric vehicles; and a Communities of Excellence topic featuring hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The H2X Warrego pops up just weeks after Queensland start-up Roev announced plans to launch production of battery electric Toyotas Hilux and Ford Ranger utes targeted at fleets in Australia from 2023. Originally, the Warrego was meant to be demonstrated on the Gold Coast last November before going on sale priced from $190,000 in April 2022.

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Teslarati

JUNE 25, 2024

The company also says its fleet is not only completely electric with its Jaguar I-Pace units, but it’s also sourced by 100 percent renewable energy through the city’s Check out Waymo’s short video from the announcement below. The company has also been given the green light to deploy paid driverless ride-hails in Los Angeles.

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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. It’s not just lines and light graphics, that’s the old world and the future is challenging everything.”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2017

A use case scenario: an autonomous vehicle is moving through city streets and comes across an accident, with police using hand signals to direct traffic, perhaps across double yellow lines and against traffic lights. The vehicle cannot and should not, reliably judge what to do by itself. Autonomy for commercial services.

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