Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2015

A fleet of shared self-driving cars in Stockholm could reduce rush hour traffic volumes by 14 cars for every shared vehicle, according to researchers at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Meanwhile, the remaining automobile commuters would need only 20% of the metropolitan area''s existing parking spaces, their study says.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 8, 2024

Kia’s PBV business represents our vision of going beyond the traditional concept of automobiles by fulfilling the unmet needs of diverse customers and communities through optimized vehicles and services catering to specific market and business circumstances,” said Ho Sung Song, Kia Corporation President and CEO, in a press release.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

There seem to be significant advancements in technology and performance for new electric automobiles every week.  After the government announced tax reductions for EVs around 2019, numerous electric cars were purchased by business fleets, such as taxi or car rental companies or those with company cars.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2011

The Guangzhou accord calls for the municipal government to encourage local car manufacturers, such as Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group, to produce electric cars with switchable batteries. It also calls for the city to promote electric-car adoption in fleet segments including public-sector vehicles and private-sector fleets such as taxis.

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

While EV-sharing is not fully a thing yet in Barcelona, there are a couple of car-sharing services offering both pure and hybrid EVs alongside conventional vehicles: Cabify, a hybrid service somewhere between a taxi company and car-sharing app Bluemove, a car-sharing app started in 2010 and already in Madrid, Barcelona, and Seville.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

SAE International also published a technical paper with bench test results from the automobile and wireless charging suppliers measured at the US DOE’s Idaho National Labs and TDK. Thus, it enables customers and taxi fleets a way to charge without the need for human interaction.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

In late April 2015, Geely Auto deployed a first-of-its-kind fleet of 150 methanol-fueled taxis in the southern Chinese city of Guiyang in cooperation with the municipal government. China Association of Alcohol & Ether Fuel and Automobiles (2014) Methanol Fuel and Vehicles in China: An Overview of Industrial Applications (2014).

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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. Commercial fleets. The high utilization of commercial fleets in this segment means that swapping can directly boost revenue.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 31, 2024

What’s more, there’s fast-paced demand coming in from the e-commerce industry and logistics players for EVs on two and three wheels, and from taxi fleet operators for electric passenger vehicles. This will lead to enhanced optimisation of costs and in turn EV affordability.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Car-sharing, short-term renting and taxis are largely unappealing to consumers in most Western countries because they want a vehicle “when and where they need it” and “it’s too much of a hassle to pick up a vehicle.”. Nearly 70% of Americans (and Europeans) would not trust an autonomous vehicle.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Kia’s PBV business represents our vision of going beyond the traditional concept of automobiles by fulfilling the unmet needs of diverse customers and communities through optimized vehicles and services catering to specific market and business circumstances,” said Ho Sung Song, Kia President and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

These—including, for example, an electric version of the T2, the iconic VW van of the late 1960s and 1970s—were mostly test cars and prototype cars, but also small fleets for special purposes. As the number two OEM in the automobile business in the world, it only makes sense for us if we see a certain volume behind it.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Beyond manufacturing, subsidies of 50,000 yuan were offered to taxi fleets and local government agencies in 13 cities for each hybrid or electric vehicle they purchased, while research subsidies were also increased. Home field advantage.

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Teslarati

APRIL 24, 2024

And something I should clarify is that Tesla will be operating the fleet, so you can think of like how Tesla, I don’t know, some combination of Airbnb and Uber, meaning that, you know, there’ll be some number of cars that Tesla owns itself and operates in the fleet. You could rent out your guest room or not, anytime you want.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. BYD CEO Wang Chuan-Fu figured out how to make cheaper batteries than the Japanese by replacing machines with migrant workers.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Then Mr. Wang, as he’s known, got into the automobile business by buying a failing state-owned carmaker. It was started by a chemist and government researcher named Wang Chuan-Fu in 1995 (same year as Yahoo) to make rechargeable batteries, which it learned to do very well.

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