Cars That Think
MARCH 23, 2022
A planned network of landing spots will let eVTOLs recharge their batteries between flights, keeping people above the hustle and bustle (and traffic tie-ups) that come standard with taking private cars or taxis on city streets. Making the trip in a taxi usually takes 90 minutes; by train, it’s a 2-hour ride.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 11, 2012
million gas-fueled motorcycles and tricycles are currently operating in the Philippines, typically serving as short-distance taxis, with the average tricycle driver earning less than $10 a day. E-Trike drivers will save upwards of $5 a day in fuel costs, and the new E-Trikes have the capacity to carry more passengers.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 20, 2011
This is largely due to China’s strength in batteries and motors. This raw material dominance, along with China’s relative labor cost advantage, has resulted in an emerging extended supply chain in motor technology and production. China’s recently announced plan to invest RMB 100 billion (US$15.3 Integrated Charging Solutions.
Revenge of the Electric Car
APRIL 6, 2010
All-electric cars, like the upcoming Nissan Leaf, have a range of about 100 miles and are powered by electric motors instead of the gas-powered internal combustion engine found in most current cars. In 2007, the administration announced a plan to replace the city’s 13,000 taxis with conventional hybrid cars by 2012. On the Grid.
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2015
The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In We also mined or extracted and burned coal and oil, releasing millions of years of stored solar energy indiscriminately, altering Earth’s climate.
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.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Thats less than Ford ( F , Fortune 500 ) ($7 billion at the beginning of April), but more than General Motors ( GM , Fortune 500 ) ($1.3 Equip those cars with electric motors, and fuel costs drop to $400 a year and emissions are reduced to about 1.5 More Will the Motor City shakeup work? tons of carbon dioxide.
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