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London Taxi relaunches as London EV Company; order for 225 vehicles from The Netherlands

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London Taxi Company (LTC) has relaunched as London EV Company (LEVC), marking the next stage in the company’s transformation. LEVC also revealed the final version of the new London Taxi—the TX—and its eCity technology comprising an advanced battery electric powertrain with a small gasoline generator.

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Geely raises $400M via Green Bonds sale to develop and produce TX5 range-extended electric London taxis

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LTC is also working on several zero-emission model concepts, including light commercial vehicles as part of ZGH’s plans to significantly raise production at LTC and position it as a leading manufacturer of green and environmentally friendly transportation. The final order book of more than US$2.3 million (US$25.4 million (US$67.5-million)

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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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Dutch taxi firm will be first to operate new e-NV200

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Taxi Electric will become the first taxi company to have the new Nissan e-NV200 on its books. The unique selling point of offering an emission-free taxi service has been successful for Taxi Electric since [.]. The Amsterdam-based company already runs a fleet consisting exclusively of Nissan Leaf EVs.

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Volkswagen and Qatar to put autonomous electric vehicles on Doha roads in 2022

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During the 2022 FIFA World Cup—the largest sporting event in the world—Qatar will thus be the venue for the world’s first emission-free, electric and autonomous public transport system. In the future, VWCV will therefore be developing and producing corresponding Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV), such as robo-taxis and robo-vans.

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April 2023 – Plug-in car market share continues to grow in Norway

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Although these introduced some BEV taxes for the first time, mostly falling on heavy and expensive BEV models, taxes fell harder still on vehicles with CO2 emissions. PHEVs, with their middling emissions ratings, are taxed somewhere in between.

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Barcelona: An E-Mobility Living Lab

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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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