Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

Uber and Hyundai Motor Company announced a new partnership to develop Uber Air Taxis for a future aerial ride share network and unveiled a new full-scale aircraft concept at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). —Eric Allison, head of Uber Elevate. The Hyundai vehicle will be piloted initially, but over time they will become autonomous.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2012

A person in the other taxi suffered minor injuries. About 400 e6s are in service in Shenzhen as taxis; the city plans to grow the fleet to 800 units this year. The GR-R was traveling at no less than 180km/h [112 mph], an eyewitness told Guangzhou TV reporting on the crash. BYD has not yet issued a statement about the crash.

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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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Electrek

JUNE 11, 2021

UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. more… The post EGEB: American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic order e-air taxis from UK startup appeared first on Electrek. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

A new modeling study by a team from MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and Cornell suggests that using ride-sharing from companies like Uber and Lyft theoretically could reduce the number of taxis on the road in New York City by 75% without significantly impacting travel time. —Daniela Rus.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

The fast-charging station delivers 50 kW of power which can fully charge the 9-person taxi-vans of Taxi Kijlstra in 30 minutes. Taxi Kijlstra, the largest taxi firm in the north of the Netherlands, recently transformed two of their taxi fleet into electric powered vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

Last month, the Mayor of London announced that from 1 January 2018, all new taxis would have to be zero-emission capable in order to gain an operating licence. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 23, 2021

And yet the needs of ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft are quite different versus typical personal use. They are essentially the new generation of taxi fleets. Otherwise it’s adding to local pollution issues and global warming.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 27, 2012

We've all experienced taxi drivers who think they're race car drivers, but Sabine Schmitz actually is. German racer and TV personality Sabine only recently hung up her 'Ring Taxi' driving gloves, a job that involved taking paying customers for the ride of their lives around the infamous Nürburgring Nordschleife, in a tire-smoking BMW M5.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The joint venture will focus on ensuring the personal freedom of customers in the field of urban mobility. Ride-Hailing with mytaxi, Chauffeur Privé, Clever Taxi and Beat: A total of 15.9 Ride-Hailing with mytaxi, Chauffeur Privé, Clever Taxi and Beat: A total of 15.9

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 9, 2021

If you ever wanted to fly over your city, Superman-style and in total silence, the Zeva ZERO personal UFO may be the eVTOL for you!

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

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2015

The study forecasts that while the automotive industry will offer a greater personalized driving experience by 2025, fully autonomous vehicles or fully automated driving will not be as commonplace as some think. Personal mobility.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The hubs connect to other vehicles, including personal vehicles, which serve as “spokes” and are used for travel to nearby areas. It includes home delivery of packages using “spoke” vehicle such as EV taxis and utilizing Japan Post vehicles for efficient delivery, as well as roadside station pickup of purchases from supermarkets.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In addition to premium cars, the company’s products cater to buses, sedans, taxis, and a variety of EVs designed for personal consumers and clean public transport operators. Boston Power’s products target multiple segments in the electric vehicle industry, all geared towards the growth of green, sustainable cities.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The proposals include a lightweight, driverless electric bus; a system to improve the efficiency of urban freight transport; a bus-taxi hybrid (a “buxi”); a low carbon, community-managed car club; plus two variants of lightweight, single seat electric vehicles. It combines the efficiency of a bus with the flexibility of a taxi.

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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

MAY 9, 2019

In 2016, TNCs were 15% of all intra-San Francisco vehicle trips, which is 12 times the number of taxi trips, while in New York in 2016, TNC ridership equaled that of yellow cab and doubled annually between 2014 and 2016. TNCs and taxis deadhead to look for fares or reposition before or after a paid trip. —Erhardt.

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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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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 28, 2023

Two-wheelers are a big deal in a lot of African countries for various applications including for personal mobility, as motorcycle taxis, as well as the growing demand in the last mile delivery sector.

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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. driving professions?

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2018

To offer personal mobility to people living in places where space is at a premium, Schaeffler is working on technology concepts such as the Schaeffler Mover for which the technology group has developed new system solutions. According to United Nations forecasts, two-thirds of the world’s population will be living in cities by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Yunnan also offers an annual water supply of 222 billion cubic meters, more than ten thousand cubic meters of water per person. The market will be developed with BYD supplying Yunnan Investment Holdings BYD e6 electric taxis to be dispatched in the main cities of Yunnan (including Kunming, Qujin, Zhaotong, Honghe, Dali and Wenshen).

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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.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2017

Users record short voice messages and send them to persons nearby or to users all over the world. As known from the analog CB radio, VoicR uses predefined public channels as well as personalized channels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

Personal cars and taxi fleets in China are now adopting this technology as well with ambitious targets set by companies for rolling out their own swap station networks. China-based Nio, for example, recently announced the total number of its Power Swap stations has reached 1,000.

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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

JULY 8, 2020

Whether used for personal use, as taxis, or for mobility services such as for the distribution of goods, modern vehicles must be capable of quickly updating software in the field in order to operate efficiently and safely. —Johann Hiebl, head of the Connected Car Networking business unit at Continental.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2017

As many as 46% of consumers worldwide would not buy a car again if they had self-driving taxis, otherwise known as robocabs, at their disposal at lower cost. 84% of study participants in Singapore and 83% in China said that they knew at least one person who had not bothered to buy their own car.

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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. 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

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 For US$100 dollars per person and service, Blacklane PASS lets air travellers avoid queues at security and immigration when arriving, departing or changing planes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

SARTRE aims to encourage a step change in personal transport usage through the development of safe environmental road trains (platoons). For instance, the lead may be taken by a taxi, a bus or a truck. Tom Robinson, Ricardo UK, SARTRE project coordinator. Each such road train will consist of six to eight vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

And it is purpose built for use as a taxi service. Such players are experiencing remarkable growth worldwide as the demand for mobility services that don’t depend on personal car ownership continues to tick ever upward. This new type of car unites two of the key mobility megatrends in one vehicle: ride-sharing and electromobility.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

One segment of the on-road fleet that is believed to drive more miles and consume more fuel than the average fleet vehicle is livery (for-hire) vehicles, such as taxis and limousines. Livery fleets have changed significantly in the past decade, with many city fleets now featuring large numbers of hybrid and alternatively fueled vehicles.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The autonomous taxi service will be rolled into GMs existing technical teams and will work to advance autonomous and assisted driving features for its retail vehicles. General Motors Cruise division hasnt had the best ride over the last couple of years, and now, the automaker is pulling the plug - kind of.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

When Croove is first launched, it will be possible to either collect the vehicle in person or pay extra for a pickup and delivery service. Meanwhile, the merger of mytaxi and Hailo recently created Europe’s largest app-based taxi booking service with a total of 100,000 drivers.

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