Green Car Reports

JUNE 12, 2014

Electric cars make a lot of sense for use as taxis. Taxis are typically driven in cities, where air pollution is often a problem. And passengers tend to like a smoother, quieter taxi ride. London taxi firm eConnect Cars has realized all these factors, setting up an all-electric taxi fleet of.'

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Otherwise it’s adding to local pollution issues and global warming. They are essentially the new generation of taxi fleets. In Europe and in the U.S. alike, ride hailing needs to go fully electric as soon as possible.

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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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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

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. Bogota’s project will improve local air quality and noise pollution.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2011

BYD all-electric e6 Taxi in service in Shenzhen. In conjunction with the one-year anniversary of its all-electric vehicle Taxi fleet test, BYD announced high-level results of several pilots of its plug-in electric vehicles—the F3DM, e6 and eBUS-12—in fleet testing across the world. Click to enlarge.

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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. —Bishop et al. In their study, Bishop et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2011

Nissan NV200 NYC Taxi. The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has selected the Nissan NV200 as the exclusive taxi of New York City for a decade, beginning in late 2013. If the pilot proves successful, the City will explore the possibility of the wider use of electric-powered taxis. Taxi of Tomorrow.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2010

Electric taxi driving through Ginza in Tokyo. Better Place launched a 90-day switchable-battery electric taxi in Tokyo in partnership with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, and Nihon Kotsu, Tokyo’s largest taxi operator. Source: Better Place. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

The taxi and ride-hailing markets are best positioned to go fully electric first. The economics of EVs—more expensive to buy but a lot cheaper to run—match perfectly with high-mileage, low-margin businesses like ride-hailing and taxis. Uber-type drivers can do up to five times more kilometers than an average motorist.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 4, 2013

With Hong Kong's poor air quality responsible for thousands of deaths every year, the city is desperately seeking ways to curb escalating pollution. Plans to take many of the city's dirtiest vehicles off the streets should help, but electrification of the city's taxi fleet is another possibility.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Green Zones support San Francisco’s approach to greenhouse gas reduction, taking advantage of the latest battery-electric technologies to convert the SFMTA’s (Muni’s) fleet of hybrid buses into part-time electric buses, as an intermediate step on the way to full electrification of the fleet by 2035.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

New research by scientists at King’s College London suggests that air pollution from London’s roads is improving overall but more work may be needed to tackle some sources of traffic pollution, which continue to breach limits in many parts of the city. Heavy vehicles were an important factor in urban air pollution.

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Teslarati

JULY 31, 2023

From scooters and e-bikes to the TECO Line Streetcar and Pirate Water Taxi to HART bus service and bicycle lanes, we know that a growing urban center needs a wide range of ways to get around. That’s how we avoid congestion, reduce pollution, and help people enjoy everything their city has to offer,” Kress said.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The first of a planned fleet of eight hydrogen fuel cell buses in London will start operating on 18 December. The buses will form the only hydrogen bus fleet in the UK and the largest currently in Europe. The buses are joining a fleet which also includes 100 hybrid buses.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 5, 2013

Prior to the Olympic Games in 2008, Beijing was notorious as one of the world''s most polluted cities: so what would the impact be of introducing plug-in electric vehicles to its taxi fleet? The issue has been examined by researchers from the University of Michigan in the ACS journal Environmental S[.].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

Once brought to market, the fuel cell technology could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollution from thousands of small commercial boats throughout California including patrol, fishing, fire, rescue, ferry, taxi, recreational and other vessels. Supported boat speeds range from a few knots to more than 50 knots.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2016

The City of London Corporation—the municipal governing body of the City of London—has banned the purchase of diesel vehicles for its business, in a drive to reduce public exposure to air pollution. The City of London Corporation’s remit goes beyond City borders.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2017

PG&E addresses three specific areas: Expanding the electrification for fleets with medium- and heavy-duty vehicles including school buses, transit agencies and delivery fleets that often use diesel, a highly polluting fuel. For the seven proposed projects, PG&E is requesting a total budget of approximately $253 million.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Ideanomics’ Mobile Energy Group (MEG) is expanding its activities with heavy-duty electric trucks as part of an ongoing effort to identify commercial vehicle activities where significant pollution reduction can be achieved by eliminating fossil fuels. Ideanomics is a global Financial Technology (Fintech) company for transformative industries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2016

As part the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection’s (MoEP’s) action plan to reduce pollution in Haifa Bay in Israel, Israel Police are actively enforcing exclusion rules that bar heavy vehicles in downtown Haifa Bay at certain times of the day. Air pollution, Haifa. —MoEP Director General Yisrael Dancziger.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2011

The project to deliver a fleet of the zero emission taxis to the streets of London in time for 2012 is on track, according to project fuel cell provider Intelligent Energy, with the first Fuel Cell Black Cabs covering a combined total of more than 8,000 miles in road and test track testing conditions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Consequently, vehicle emissions have become an increasingly conspicuous contributor to air pollution in Chinese urban areas. 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 million miles) per day.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2015

A fleet of self-driving shared cars combined with high-capacity public transport could make 90% of conventional cars in mid-sized cities superfluous under certain circumstances, according to a study published by the International Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD. weekday 8-9 a.m., Source: ITF. Click to enlarge.

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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

JULY 26, 2017

In 2018, the Government will publish a comprehensive Clean Air Strategy which will address other sources of air pollution. Air quality in the UK has been improving significantly in recent decades, with reductions in emissions of all of the key pollutants, and NO 2 levels down by half in the last 15 years. 100M – National road network.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2014

The e-NV200’s homologated NEDC range of 170 km (106 miles) is greater than the average 100-kilometer (62-mile) daily driving distance of more than half the fleets which utilize this class of van; the payload and cargo area is the same as NV200’s. Fleet operators, meanwhile, will love the low running costs.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The grants, funded by a portion of the state’s annual utilities gross receipts tax, are intended to encourage new markets for alternative fuels, fleets and technologies across Pennsylvania. This will provide access to the general public and private fleets. Cranberry Taxi Inc. The projects are: Natural Gas.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

London Mayor, Boris Johnson has unveiled a plan to ban taxis over the age of ten years from the capital’s streets in a bid to cut air pollution. The strategy likely to anger cabbies, outlines the key sources of London’s harmful airborne pollutants and proposes an action plan to reduce emissions.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 3, 2014

Local authorities across England have the chance to bid for funding to make changes to bus fleets and other vehicles, to help slash transport pollution in their region. Announced yesterday by Transport Minister, Baroness Kramer, the new £5 million Clean Vehicle Technology Fund, will help pay for a[.]. Green credentials'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

the air district will demonstrate specially designed battery electric taxis that can use switchable batteries to give the vehicles essentially unlimited range. Two battery switching stations, at the international airports in San Francisco and San Jose, and six taxis that use switchable batteries will be used.

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Clean Car

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For many people (including us at CleanCar) the removal of highly polluting vehicles from our roads is a matter of celebration. Particularly if they can be replaced by more active travel and public transport, alongside much cleaner forms of private and fleet vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

in 2021 to create a wireless charging infrastructure with alignment communications for autonomous vehicles (for example, taxi fleets). SAE also proposes 100 Heavy Duty Chargers in 2020 based on SAE J2954/2 (for example public transit agency, truck stops for anti-idling, etc.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer.

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

While EV-sharing is not fully a thing yet in Barcelona, there are a couple of car-sharing services offering both pure and hybrid EVs alongside conventional vehicles: Cabify, a hybrid service somewhere between a taxi company and car-sharing app Bluemove, a car-sharing app started in 2010 and already in Madrid, Barcelona, and Seville.

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