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NYC had electric taxis in the ’90s—the 1890s, that is

Baua Electric

New York City’s iconic fleet of taxis once included some EVs—but you have to look back more than a century to find them. As National Geographic explains in a recent article, electric taxis had a brief moment of popularity in the city in the 1890s. Nissan never did achieve a monopoly on New York taxis with the NV200.

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China is testing more driverless cars than any other country – ET Auto

Baua Electric

A fleet of 500 taxis navigated by computers, often with no safety drivers in them for backup, buzz around. The company that operates them, tech giant Baidu, said last month that it would add another 1,000 of the so-called robot taxis in Wuhan. Baidu also has a joint venture with Zhejiang Geely, called Jiyue, to make robot taxis.

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Study of emissions from CNG- and gasoline-fueled autorickshaws suggests measurements and data, not assumptions, should drive policy

Green Car Congress

Chassis dynamometer emission testing conducted on 30 in-use Indian auto-rickshaws—two-stroke and four-stroke CNG-fueled (CNG-2S and CNG-4S) and four-stroke gasoline-fueled (PET-4S)—found that global warming commitment (GWC) associated with emissions from CNG-2S was more than twice that from CNG-4S or PET-4S, due mostly to CH 4 emissions.

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China’s EV Subsidy

Revenge of the Electric Car

Journal article: China to Subsidize Electric Cars. Here’s the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. All-electric e6 vehicles made by BYD charge up in Shenzhen, where the cars are used as taxis. The company launched its all-electric e6 taxis in the southern city of Shenzhen earlier this year.

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Wireless Charging of EVs Being Tested

Get Electric Vehicle

I am excited to write this article because today we are dealing with such a thrilling topic and it is wireless charging…. The other day, I was working on the design of connecting rod for a gasoline engine, and to be honest, it is a tough job. Charging your car on the go wirelessly…How cool is that !! The Coolest Thing Ever.

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India’s electric four-wheeler ride-hailing fleet incentives

Electric Vehicles India

Earlier in 2019, the study showed that in 2019, electric vehicles powered by batteries were not yet cost competitive when compared to gasoline, diesel, or compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles. For the selected cities such as Delhi and Hyderabad City for the vehicle models such as Mahindra eVerito D2 (BEV), Maruti Suzuki Dzire LXI (gasoline).

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

This Christian Science Monitor article takes an in-depth look at an age. Read more in the article: Can electric cars break out of niche status in US, China market? Quote from the article: “Investors, too, are excited. gasoline-powered vehicles could be delayed. By Jaeah Lee for the Christian Science Monitor.

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