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Hype Taxi Using Massive European Grants To Pay For Champagne-Scale Hydrogen Costs

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billion in losses, $55 million a year, since 2000 with no profits ever is one. continued] The post Hype Taxi Using Massive European Grants To Pay For Champagne-Scale Hydrogen Costs appeared first on CleanTechnica. In the crazy world of hydrogen for transportation plays, some endeavors stand out. Ballard’s $1.3

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MAHEPA consortium marks latest flights of HY4 fuel cell hybrid electric aircraft

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The experience with the sixth-generation drive and the modular structure of the fuel cell would support both air taxi applications with 1.5 hours flight duration as well as an aircraft with up to 40 passengers and a range of up to 2000 km (1200 miles).

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easyJet and Wright Electric: all-electric short-haul flights within a decade

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The company is also partnering with Safran to trial e-taxi hydrogen fuel cell technology in the coming months in what will be a revolutionary zero emissions taxiing system for its aircraft. Since 2000, easyJet has reduced its emissions by more than 31% per passenger kilometer in 2016.

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DENSO and Toyota Tsusho to test quantum computing analysis of IoT traffic data

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The test will collect and analyze location information from about 130,000 taxis and trucks in Thailand through cloud-based quantum computer devices developed by Canada-based D-Wave Systems Inc. D-Wave’s latest-generation system is the 2000-qubit D-Wave 2000Q quantum computer.

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ZeTek Efforts on Fuel Cell London Cabs Reach Back to 1998

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The plug-in hybrid fuel cell London Taxi recently unveiled by Intelligent Energy, Lotus Engineering, LTI Vehicles and TRW Conekt ( earlier post ) is the latest in a set of attempts to apply fuel cell technology to London cabs. ZeTek Power Plc, which has since gone out of business, developed its first prototype London fuel cell taxi in 1998.

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Study suggests high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected

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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. of the registered vehicles (2000/325000). —Bishop et al. In their study, Bishop et al. Credit: ACS, Bishop et al. Click to enlarge.

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Volkswagen partners with D-Wave on quantum computing; CeBIT premiere of research project for traffic flow optimization

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In the course of this project, experts from the Volkswagen Code Lab in San Francisco and the Volkswagen Data Lab in Munich and used data from approximately 10,000 taxis in Beijing. Data scientists and AI specialists from Volkswagen have successfully programmed an algorithm to optimize the travel time of all public taxis in the city.