Electric Cars Report

MARCH 17, 2023

The Chinese eVTOL startup Autoflight has entered into a contract with EVFLY for an initial 205 of its electric air taxis.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The expansion of these facilities will allow Boston Power to meet the growing demand by leading Chinese automakers in the Yangtze River Delta and throughout the Bohai Gulf in Northern China. Boston Power’s products target multiple segments in the electric vehicle industry, all geared towards the growth of green, sustainable cities.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

IDTechEx’s latest master electric vehicle report “ Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042 ” finds 35.7 million electric vehicles (EV) were sold in 2021 and predicts this will rise to more than 74 million by 2030. Source: IDTechEx - “Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042”. Electric Trucks - 4.3

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Having raked in perhaps 30 percent of all the money invested in electrically-powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft so far, Joby is the colossus in an emerging class of startups working on these radical, battery-powered commercial flyers. Even by the standards of big-money tech investment, the vision is giddily audacious.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2011

Automaker BYD is by far China's most aggressive when it comes to electric cars. It launched its F3DM sedan, the world's first production plug-in hybrid, back in December 2008--sales have been poor--and has been testing its all-electric e6 crossover with both taxi fleets in Shenzhen, China, and the Housing Authority of Los Angeles.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The city of London, England is set to have its first all-electric taxi fleet from the second quarter of 2013. Taxi company greentomatocars and Chinese carmaker BYD have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see greentomato cars running a fleet of 50 BYD e6 electric crossovers.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 28, 2015

While the styling will remain recognizable, London taxis are about to get a significant overhaul--with help from a Chinese benefactor. The London Taxi Company (LTC) unveiled its new model last week, and announced a major investment by.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It all depends on how you interpret its Chinese name Yinhe. Ahead of that, Geely has teased two models, a battery electric sedan in January and a plug-in hybrid compact SUV this week. It is understood to be based on a new electric structure separate from the SEA platform used by various Geely group BEVs including the Zeekr 001.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

Considering that residents from different size cities always perform different travel patterns such as travel frequency, travel mode, and travel distance, hence, the Chinese cities are first classified according to the population size, and then the passenger traffic volume of each travel mode is predicted by city. (2)

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 5, 2024

Earlier today, Reuters reported that the automaker had ditched its efforts to develop the car and would look instead at developing autonomous taxis on the platform that would have underpinned it. It now seems that Tesla is following suit, despite repeated promises that it would develop a mass-market EV at a reasonable price.

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2024

Along with the approval, Tesla was reported to be working with Chinese tech giant Baidu on maps for self-driving. Generally, foreign companies have been forced to partner with Chinese companies in order to establish themselves in the country. The automaker has reportedly secured conditional approval to deploy the system in the market.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

A deal to bring more than 50 electric taxis onto London’s roads has been scrapped. The capital’s second largest minicab firm, Green Tomato Cars has pulled out of a deal with Chinese firm, BYD which would have seen it operating a fleet of e6 electric crossover vehicles, as part of its taxi service.[.].

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 24, 2012

London could soon see the arrival of its first all-electric taxi fleet after one of the capital’s minicab services sealed a deal with Chinese EV manufacturer BYD.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2015

Xinhua reports that the Chinese Ministry of Transport (MOT) is targeting 300,000 new energy vehicles on China’s roads by 2020: 200,000 new energy buses and 100,000 new energy taxis and city logistics delivery vehicles.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2023

BYD, China’s largest electric automaker, isn’t as gung-ho about autonomous vehicles as many other auto industry giants. Of course, automating jobs in Chinese factories isn’t as exciting as self-driving cars, but we’re a lot close to that reality than any sort of human-free taxis roaming freely.&

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

Photo: Shenzhen Government Online Shenzhen, the home of Chinese EV giant BYD, says it’s become the first in China to have more supercharging plugs than gas pumps. As Electrek reported in April , BYD received direct government subsidies of “at least” $3.7 The city of 12.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2012

has signed a memorandum of understanding with a major Chinese company for the development and marketing of UQM electric propulsion systems for New Energy Vehicles (NEV) in China. UQM powers test-fleet vehicles by Audi in Germany, Rolls-Royce and the London Taxi Company in the UK, and previously, Saab vehicles in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2011

As part of the partnership, Hertz will rent BYD’s e6 electrical vehicle (EV) to Chinese consumers, municipalities and government agencies. The BYD e6 has been in use in Shenzhen taxi fleets for more than a year; the first fleet of 50 e6 taxis have now surpassed 2.5 BYD’s share price fell 14.3% in October 2009.Behind

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Baua Electric

JULY 17, 2023

Within the race to shed carbon emissions, international locations from the United States to Untouched Zealand are meting out incentives to spur electric-vehicle gross sales — ways China impaired for years because it became the largest EV marketplace on Earth. The rustic will account for approximately 60% of the sector’s 14.1

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2017

One of the common goals is to develop an electric vehicle, fully optimized for the mobility services that DiDi is offering, and also initiating a path towards a self-driving and on-demand mobility future. DiDi recently predicted that there will be more than 1 million electrical vehicles operated in the DiDi platform in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2011

The agreement, which focuses on joint electric car and infrastructure projects in CSG’s service areas, will further advance electric cars with switchable batteries in China. 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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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Taxis with empty driver’s seats have become common in the San Francisco area. Six of them have been permitted for driverless testing: Waymo, Amazon’s Zoox unit, Chinese search giant Baidu’s Apollo, and startups Nuro, WeRide and AutoX.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2010

Ltd,” that will develop an electric vehicle for China. The new generation of electric vehicles developed by the joint venture will capitalize on Daimler’s know-how in electric vehicle architecture and safety as well as BYD’s expertise in battery technology and e-drive systems. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Cars News

JUNE 4, 2012

A tragic high speed accident involving an all-electric taxi in the Chinese city of Shenzhen has sparked further concerns about the safety of the new technology. On May 26, a Nissan GTR sports car smashed into the rear of two taxis at an estimated speed of 180km/h. One of the taxis was a BYD e6 [.].

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

plans to start test-marketing the e6 battery-electric vehicle ( earlier post ) in the US next year after almost a year’s delay, and is in talks with officials in Los Angeles to supply e-buses that could eventually lead to a manufacturing plant in the city. The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s BYD Co.

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All Cars Electric

MAY 3, 2011

Yesterday Dallas-based electric vehicle firm Green Automotive Company announced it was sending two of its all-electric Zotye electric SUVs to be tested for compliance with Federal Motor Safety Standards at independent engineering firm Roush Industries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2012

The government of China—now the world’s largest automotive market—has made vehicle electrification central to its plan for growing the automotive market both domestically and internationally, and accordingly has created many national and local incentives for plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) purchases. BEV/PHEV cars that were.

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All Cars Electric

JUNE 14, 2010

What does a pizza delivery teen, a taxi driver and a courier have to do with EVs? Chinese auto firm BYD (Build Your Dreams) is known for its.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The specialists intend to continue the development of traffic optimization; to explore structures for new materials, especially high-performance batteries for electric vehicles; and to work on artificial intelligence with new machine learning processes. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

ZAP Jonway plans to introduce an electric A280—the “little brother”to the A380 being used as an electric taxi. as part of a strategy to capitalize on the growing automotive and electric vehicle (EV) market in China. These vehicles are now being showcased and used as electric taxis at the Shanghai Expo.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 5, 2011

The expansion of Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD continues in earnest after the company signed a memorandum of understanding with SMRT Corporation in Singapore. The two will now enter discussions about the possibility of establishing a joint venture to distribute BYD’s eBUSes and e6 taxis.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

Frost & Sullivan, a global consultancy and market analysis firm, believes that there will three phases for the development of green cars in China: LPG/CNG and hybrids in the short term; electric vehicles in the middle stage; and fuel cell vehicles in the long run. Electric Cars, the Next Movement. Hybrids Prevail in the Short Term.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 1, 2010

Journal article: China to Subsidize Electric Cars. China to Subsidize Electric Cars. BEIJING—China will subsidize buyers of battery-powered cars and plug-in hybrids under a pilot program aimed at keeping the country competitive in the global race to develop an electric-vehicle industry, but which also risks a public backlash.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

Industry forecasts suggest that the global electric vehicle sales will contribute between 2% to 25% of annual new vehicle sales by 2025, with the consensus being closer to 10%. Yet, China and other countries face steep challenges in promoting electric vehicles. China’s recently announced plan to invest RMB 100 billion (US$15.3

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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. The company is proactively working with partners across China to expand the use of methanol-fueled vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

old question for electric cars – When will electric cars make a real. Read more in the article: Can electric cars break out of niche status in US, China market? Electric-car ventures made up nearly 40. incentives, and concerns over the electrical grid are slowing the electric. percent of $1.9

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

In a new report, “ Battery Swapping for Electric Vehicles 2022-2032: Technology, Players and Forecasts ”, market research firm IDTechEx concludes that battery-swapping technology currently appears to be a winner in the two- and three-wheeler markets of the Asia-Pacific regions. Two- and three-wheelers.

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