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

Green Car Congress

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. Livery fleets have changed significantly in the past decade, with many city fleets now featuring large numbers of hybrid and alternatively fueled vehicles.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]).

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Humanoid Robots Are Getting to Work

Cars That Think

The DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges for autonomous vehicles, in 2005 and 2007, formed the foundation for today’s autonomous taxis. Digit won’t be doing everything that a person can do,” says Hurst. Vetterick emphasizes that the Seattle R&D site deployment is only a very small initial test of Digit’s capabilities.

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Daimler creates subsidiary for innovative mobility services; targeting €100M revenue within next 24 months

Green Car Congress

With the smartphone app, customers can easily and conveniently compare mobility options such as car2go, taxis, ridesharing services, and local public transport in terms of various parameters, e.g. trip duration and costs. As part of its effort to achieve this goal, Daimler acquired a financial interest in GottaPark Inc.,

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

We could take an Oslo taxi and charge it in a bus terminal in Wenatchee, Washington or vice versa. If batteries are not surviving the life of the vehicle, I personally find that an obscene position to be in as we drive forward with our environmentally-focused revolution. John Holland: Yes. We’re doing the same thing around the world.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Welcome to the 7th Annual Top 10 EV Countries list — my own very personal version of March Madness! However, I won’t ignore that its CEO, among the world’s richest persons, loudly undermined sensible pandemic policies in his home state, thus helping kill more of his fellow Americans and his own workers. Looking at you Tesla.

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