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. Renovo built AWare specifically for fleet operators such as Voyage.

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Taxi Fleet San Jose Minivan 199

Green Car Reports

JUNE 26, 2015

Back in 2011, New York City chose a new vehicle to replace the majority of its taxi fleet, then a hodgepodge of Ford Crown Victoria sedans, various hybrid models, and a few minivans. Dubbed the "Taxi of Tomorrow," that vehicle is an adapted version of the Nissan NV200 small van.

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Taxi Nissan New York City New York 60

Green Car Reports

JUNE 8, 2018

Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google's parent company, Alphabet, put in an order for 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans last week to put into test fleets around the country. Riders will be able to summon the vans as taxis and be whisked to their destination complete with a "driver" who isn't actually driving.

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Chrysler Purchase Minivan Google 87

Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Waymo began their operations and testing with Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans, but in 2018 the I-Pace was added to the fleet. It’s the first time all- electric vehicles have been added to the fleet since Waymo’s custom-designed EVs were phased out to make space for the Pacificas.

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San Francisco Phoenix Lithium Ion Minivan 52

Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The Hyundai Ioniq 5 could become Waymo’s next self-driving taxi , deploying a new generation of the Google spinoff’s Waymo Driver autonomous-driving system, Reuters reports. These have all been plug-in cars, including the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid plug-in hybrid minivan and Jaguar I-Pace electric SUV.

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Taxi Hyundai Minivan Chrysler 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Chrysler used this for their EPIC Minivan and could charge at a rate of about one mile per minute. When GM installed chargers for the EV1 they used a 50amp 220V circuit that could pump over 6KW into the batteries. Some industrial sites are even set up with 440V 3 phase service. I have never been a big fan of battery swapping.

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Electric Vehicles Charging Las Vegas Vehicles 28