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

JULY 17, 2015

Travel and expense management company Certify’s Q2 analysis on business expense trends found that Uber, the popular ridesharing service, continues to grow with business travelers, comprising 55% of ground transportation receipts compared with taxi services at 43%. In Q1, Uber had 46% of receipts compared with taxis at 53%.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2017

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. The computing principle of a quantum computer is especially well-suited for this project because it natively solves optimization problems.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Where it used to be Hertz or Avis–or a taxi–the choices now are much more complex. The stated goal is to experiment in autonomous on-demand vehicles, hedging the reduction in vehicle sales caused by ride sharing by making GM the preferred vehicle provider for Lyft drivers and integrating connectivity tools like OnStar.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2013

Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties. CALSTART, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

We are suggesting that the variation in power and energy from renewable sources can be managed much more easily and economically with the batteries in PHEVs when they are plugged into the grid with a low power connection. Only the PHEV can share energy with the grid without stranding the driver.

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