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Study suggests high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected

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One segment of the on-road fleet that is believed to drive more miles and consume more fuel than the average fleet vehicle is livery (for-hire) vehicles, such as taxis and limousines. The researchers used the West LA data as a baseline for comparison with the high-mileage fleet measurements. In their study, Bishop et al.

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

The Truth About Cars

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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ITF analysis finds that societal costs for electric cars and vans range from €7K to €12K more than fossil-fueled equivalents

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Sample consumer and societal break-even curves for BEVs, with data points for a compact diesel for comparison. Comparison of fossil-fueled vehicles and electric cars is not always easy as conventional cars rarely have equivalent electric counterparts. Source: Philippe Crist — Discussion Paper 2012-03. Click to enlarge.

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Tata Tiago EV Small hatchback released: Our take

Plug In India

And paying an extra 3 lakh should be a no brainer for a person who is doing 1500 km a month. And if you are really comparing apples to apples, the best comparison is with the Tiago XTA AMT model, which is the entry level automatic - which costs Rs. The entry level Petrol Tiago is 5.4 lakh ex showroom in Pune.

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India’s electric four-wheeler ride-hailing fleet incentives

Electric Vehicles India

The Telangana state is also establishing a benchmark for electric vehicles adoption for s personal, shared and commercial vehicle segments, not only this it is also focusing on the charging infrastructure and a local manufacturing unit to produce electric vehicles and their components. Step two-Comparison of costs per km 2020 versus 2019.

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Wolfspeed, BPEI study uses ESOI analysis to show energy efficiency superiority of SiC in EVs

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By quantifying the “lifecycle energy return on energy invested,” ESOI provides an apples-to-apples comparison of alternative energy-saving technologies. The ESOI gain is even greater for fleet vehicles, such as taxis and delivery vans, with higher duty cycles and 500,000 estimated lifetime miles.

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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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