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24.4 million customers use Daimler’s mobility services

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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 This represents an increase of 64% in comparison to the same month of the previous year. million customers as of July 30, 2018. car2go had 3.3 million customers).

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ITF shared mobility study for Helsinki bolsters other results suggesting car sharing ends congestion, cuts emissions

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In the Helsinki study, motorized road trips (private car, bus and taxi) were replaced by different configurations of 6-seater Shared Taxis that provide on-demand door-to-door service and Taxi-Buses that offer a street corner-to-street corner service booked 30 minutes in advance.

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Kreisel Electric expanding capacity with construction of new Li-ion battery plant

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Kreisel says that it leverages assembly and thermal management techniques to deliver 20% more usable capacity available in comparison to the products of its main competitor. The 6,276 m 2 factory will be equipped with a fully automated production line. With a weight of only 4.1 Kreisel has also swapped out VW’s 24.2

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Intelligent Energy introduces new high performance 100kW automotive fuel cell architecture

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Designed to deliver primary motive power within an advanced electric driveline, the 100 kW fuel cell architecture and core technology will be available to vehicle manufacturers through technology licensing programs and joint development agreements. kW/l (volumetric) and 3.0 kW/l (volumetric) and 3.0 kW/l and 2 kW/kg. Earlier post.).

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ITF report finds self-driving shared vehicles could take up to 90% of cars off city streets; total kilometers travelled increases

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Other findings of the study include: A TaxiBot system with high-capacity public transport will result in 6% more car-kilometers travelled than today, because these services would have to replace not only those provided by private cars and traditional taxis but also all those provided by buses.

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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Dash Cam?

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While the brand itself sounds like it was simply made up after a misguided marketing jam session, NextBase has emerged as one of the more popular makers of these electronics; if you’ve been in a taxi or Uber, there’s a decent chance some sort of device from NextBase has been along for the ride. &

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ICCT report assesses domestic fuel efficiency performance of US airlines for 2010; Alaska Airlines on top, Allegiant on the bottom

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The study is the first to quantify that performance gap using publicly available data and accounting for differences in business operations across airlines. narrow coverage range of airline types, which ought to include low-cost carriers and regional affiliates of larger airlines. —Zou et al.

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