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. —Jeffery Greenblatt.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

All antitrust authorities involved have now given the green light for the new joint venture, which is owned in equal parts by the BMW Group and Daimler AG. The joint venture will focus on ensuring the personal freedom of customers in the field of urban mobility. More than four million customers already use these carsharing services.

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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. Earlier post.). LaSorda joined the ALTe Board as ALTe’s Lead Director and investor.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

weight, personal comfort and journey planning. RSA focused on: Cabbies’ personal views and outlooks: what do they think and care about? Taxi driving as a profession: what separates the driver of hackney carriages from other. Are taxi drivers operating a private business, performing a public. Yet the human dimension.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

Driverless cars are poised to decongest personal car traffic, shrink our eco footprint, free up parking spaces and reduce the frequency of collisions by about 90%. Otherwise, smaller driverless vehicles (including taxis, rideshare services and private cars) could potentially eliminate the need for public transit. by Dave Crichton.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2012

The term Ha:mo is being given to TMC-developed systems that seek to provide user-, town-, and community-friendly transport support through the effective use of public transportation in combination with motor vehicles and other forms of personal mobility. The initiative is also a part of EDMS trials for effective vehicle-battery use.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 18, 2022

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. A key person involved in the critical tasks of assembling, servicing, and testing the company’s vehicles and related products is Magdalene Maluta.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2020

We are making the vehicle an integral part of the Internet of Everything, contributing to the higher functionality and comfort in the vehicle. Thanks to the new server architecture, vehicles will be kept up to date easier and faster than today. —Johann Hiebl, head of the Connected Car Networking business unit at Continental.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2019

Thus, the researchers were able to deposit an aerosol directly on human lung cells, which would not have been possible in an experiment with human test persons for ethical reasons. Moreover, the particles were analyzed for their physico-chemical and structural properties to examine possible links with the effects of the particles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

As part of its Smart Nation initiative to drive the adoption of digital innovation across industries, Singapore is actively fostering the use of digital technologies such as AI, digitalization, and smart urban mobility. Strategy 2025 also details regional optimization for Smart Mobility Services.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2018

M will learn about its user’s needs, preferences and habits, personalizing the customer relationship. M is part of our answer. The services currently available mainly offer alternatives to a taxi or public transit. It will debut in Sweden and the US in the spring of 2019. Volvo Cars is becoming more than just a car company.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Part-funded by the European Commission under the Framework 7 program, SARTRE will be led by Ricardo UK Ltd and will be a collaboration between Idiada and Robotiker-Tecnalia of Spain; Institut für Kraftfahrwesen Aachen (IKA) of Germany; and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Volvo Car Corporation and Volvo Technology of Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2018

With car2go, moovel, mytaxi/Intelligent Apps (mytaxi, beat, Clever Taxi and Chauffeur Privé), the mobility portfolio in the segment of Daimler Financial Services counted 24.4 The mobility joint venture with BMW is part of our mobility strategy. million customers as of July 30, 2018. The number of transactions reached 95.3 car2go had 3.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2021

Zenseact is a newly-formed 550-person team of top ADAS and autonomous software experts, was founded by Volvo Cars in 2020. While the wider autonomous industry largely focuses on robo-taxi applications, Luminar and Zenseact collectively remain focused on delivering systems into series production vehicles. Luminar Technologies, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2018

M will learn about its user’s needs, preferences and habits, personalizing the customer relationship. M is part of our answer. The services currently available mainly offer alternatives to a taxi or public transit. It will debut in Sweden and the US in the spring of 2019. Volvo Cars is becoming more than just a car company.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 18, 2023

Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous taxi division, can’t seem to keep its vehicles out of trouble, as they keep crashing into things in their home test city of San Francisco. Last night, a taxi crashed into a fire truck , sending one person to the hospital.&

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2016

The new car sharing economy happens in three phases: street rental service, ride sharing taxi service, and robotic service. The principal benefits extend beyond the collaboration aspect, though, and include the ability to tap into and monetize personally owned assets and real-time matching of supply and demand. —Dominique Bonte.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

As part of its plan to significantly expand the mobility services business operations, Daimler Financial Services AG (DFS) has created a subsidiary known as Daimler Mobility Services GmbH (DMS). As part of its effort to achieve this goal, Daimler acquired a financial interest in GottaPark Inc., —Robert Henrich.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2017

In his 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote, Nissan chairman of the board and chief executive officer Carlos Ghosn made five key announcements of several technologies and partnerships as part of the Nissan Intelligent Mobility blueprint for transforming how cars are driven, powered, and integrated into wider society.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2025

Drivers of delivery trucks and taxis, residents of apartment buildings, students on their way to college, families on vacation, and countless others have learned that driving an EV can be a struggle where public charging is scarce or unreliable. In the case of public fast charging, the safety contactors are an integral part of the hardware.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 1, 2025

This story is part of our Top Tech 2025 special report. Their new personal aircraft, the Airhart Sling , is designed to be user-friendly, safe, and as easy to learn as possible. The fleet of about 500 taxis is the largest in China and is expected to double in size with the addition of new taxis in Wuhan by the end of 2024.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Urban planning as part of the solution. He works for Systemica, who has been contracted to design the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system for the citadel of Masdar. The PRT as an automated taxi that is 4m long by 1.4m Another issue is being capacity constrained during rush hour if you only have one person per vehicle.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges for autonomous vehicles, in 2005 and 2007, formed the foundation for today’s autonomous taxis. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. Digit won’t be doing everything that a person can do,” says Hurst. We are always focused on what problem we’re trying to solve.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2024

CES 2024 was no different with several concept and new vehicle reveals, and technological advancements that will be part of new cars in the coming years. The platforms can be mounted with a pickup or van body, and even a passenger design for a taxi. The PV5 should be the first to be released. 3, the all-new Tiguan, Passat and Golf.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Now, personally, I’ve tried to use Autopilot a few times, not so much out of morbid curiosity as a feeling of being professionally compelled to do so. About 10 minutes into the journey, he said, the driver, without asking his passenger or even mentioning his intention, switched the vehicle’s Autopilot on.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 24, 2025

CES 2025 was no different with several concept and new vehicle reveals, and technological advancements that will be part of new cars in the coming years. As part of a larger portfolio, these three give a look of what is on sale in other parts of the world, and possibly a glimpse of someday in America.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Waymo announced that it is partnering with Japanese taxi company Nihon Kotsu for the initial phase, where human drivers will operate Waymos cars so that the software can map the city. Japan, for its part, amended its laws to allow level 4 autonomous driving on its roads. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

While it’s already testing some of these ideas with the taxi-focused Niro Plus in South Korea, the first manufacturing step is Kia’s dedicated PBV factory , due to start production in 2025 set to make up to 150,000 vehicles annually. That will include global conversion (upfit) partners.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

In June 2023, Shenzhen unveiled its first fully liquid-cooled supercharging prototype station as part of its “City of Supercharging” plan, in which it set a goal to build as many supercharging stations as gas stations by 2025. So all those cheap EVs need to be fast-charged, and what better place to expand than BYD’s home city? The city of 12.5

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

For example, Toray is working with California-based Joby Aviation to use carbon fiber on its upcoming all-electric air taxi. Joint R&D includes carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) parts. It’s also signed an agreement with German aerospace Lilium to use carbon fiber composite on its fully electric five-seater jet.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

For example, Toray is working with California-based Joby Aviation to use carbon fiber on its upcoming all-electric air taxi. Joint R&D includes carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) parts. It’s also signed an agreement with German aerospace Lilium to use carbon fiber composite on its fully electric five-seater jet.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 2, 2023

While the brand itself sounds like it was simply made up after a misguided marketing jam session, NextBase has emerged as one of the more popular makers of these electronics; if you’ve been in a taxi or Uber, there’s a decent chance some sort of device from NextBase has been along for the ride. &

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A sustainable marine mobility developer called Navalt is making a quick impact on a huge part of Asia. From ferries to water taxis and even yachts, Navalt is doing a little bit of everything. It is rolling out some of India’s largest and most efficient solar electric boats on the water.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Alamouti, who has won this year’s Marconi Prize , says he believes part of the solution is to decentralize the cloud—which would help bring about a more open Internet and eventually allow consumers to choose what data of theirs they want to sell. This is not a technology problem; it’s a business-model problem.”. Wireless innovator.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

All I needed was a taxi to take me there, a trip of about 30 miles away. There are no taxis, said the stationmaster, as we stood on the polished limestone floors of the high-ceilinged station, which was cool and breezy despite the brilliant late-morning sun outside. Wrangling a taxi has never been a problem in Mexico.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 17, 2022

We could take an Oslo taxi and charge it in a bus terminal in Wenatchee, Washington or vice versa. If batteries are not surviving the life of the vehicle, I personally find that an obscene position to be in as we drive forward with our environmentally-focused revolution. John Holland: Yes. We’re doing the same thing around the world.

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