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This new style of electric tuk-tuk makes me want to drive a taxi in India

Baua Electric

In Thailand, a tuk-tuk (a fun onomatopoeia that arose from the traditionally loud two-stroke engines powering them). But whatever it’s called, these three-wheeled taxis have used their half-bike, half-wagon design to shuttle folks around cities for decades. My favorite part of this vehicle is just how cheap it is – a mere $592!

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Junkyard Find: 1993 Nissan Sentra with 320,165 miles

The Truth About Cars

I feel certain that the pasted-together-from-many-taxis Nissan Tsuru I found last year belongs in this list, but I can't prove it. liter DOHC engine, rated at 110 horsepower and 108 pound-feet. It was cheap, basic transportation in its day and it served its owners well for more than three decades.

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HeatReCar project demonstrates technical feasibility of thermoelectric generator for waste heat recovery; economic case more difficult

Green Car Congress

They selected bismuth telluride (Bi 2 Te 3 ) suitable for lower operating temperatures in a diesel engine. To enhance marketability, the researchers concluded, further work should be focused on decreasing the cost together with several recommendations regarding engine type, driving conditions and materials properties.

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A just transition

Clean Car

However, to this auspicious list, we must now add (at least) one more category; the end of the internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. For people who rely on cheap-to-run diesel vans or cars to get about or run their business the coming years will be a challenge. We all know it is coming and probably sooner than we think.

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EV Chargers for All!

Cars That Think

Only 76 percent of apartment households own a vehicle compared to 92 percent of all households; yet NHMC data also show 66 percent of apartment households still travel by car, truck, motorcycle, or taxi to work, which is comparable to 76 percent of all U.S. households. on Friday, 27 January 2023.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Most of this was driven by Europe, where strict cash penalties levied directly on automakers, for each ICE (internal-combustion engine) sold, came into effect January 2020 — and simply worked! The LEVC electric taxi might still be the only EV that both designed *and* produced on UK’s home turf. in 2019 to 4% in 2020.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD’s engineering prowess. Depending on whether or not you count trainees, BYD employs between 10,000 and 17,000 engineers and it’s constantly recruiting the best graduates from China’s engineering and technical schools. Here are three reasons why I think BYD will become an important company in the not too distant future.

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