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Weird Alibaba: Get a 3-person electric bike pedicab taxi for under $1,000!

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It’s not everyday that the odd little EVs I find for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week are so cool that I’m tempted to buy them myself. more… The post Weird Alibaba: Get a 3-person electric bike pedicab taxi for under $1,000! appeared first on Electrek.

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AlixPartners finds limited consumer willingness to pay for autonomous vehicles but enthusiasm for robo-taxis

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At the same time, the survey results also suggest enthusiasm for autonomous robot-taxis. In the US, 44% said they’d consider swapping their personal vehicle for ride-hailing under such circumstances. Consumers in China, the world’s largest auto market, were the most enthusiastic, at 84%. —Mark Wakefield.

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NYC had electric taxis in the ’90s—the 1890s, that is

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New York City’s iconic fleet of taxis once included some EVs—but you have to look back more than a century to find them. As National Geographic explains in a recent article, electric taxis had a brief moment of popularity in the city in the 1890s. The fleet quickly grew from a dozen vehicles in 1897 to over 100 by 1899.

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Indian startup The ePlane to develop electric air taxi prototype by March 2025 – ET Auto

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As per the startup’s website, an ePlane will take only 14 minutes to reach a place that will take 60 minutes by a personal vehicle. New Delhi: Chennai-based startup The ePlane Company expects to develop a certifiable prototype of a flying electric taxi by March next year as it works on ways to alleviate urban congestion.

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Berkeley study finds self-driving electric taxi fleets in Manhattan would deliver significant cost and environmental benefits

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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have analyzed the cost, energy, and environmental implications of a fleet of self-driving electric vehicles operating in Manhattan. The minimum fleet size falls to 6,470 vehicles at battery ranges of 70 miles and greater.

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A Giant Game of Telephone: The Revel Tesla Model Y Taxi Situation Explained

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Earlier this week, there was plenty of talk about the Revel taxi fleet in New York City, comprised of 50 Tesla Model Y all-electric crossovers that would contribute to the ride-sharing services that the Big Apple has long been accustomed to over the past century. New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission: A Giant Game of Telephone.

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Boeing and Kitty Hawk form strategic partnership on electric urban air mobility

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The strategic partnership will bring together the innovation of Kitty Hawk’s Cora air taxi division with Boeing’s scale and aerospace expertise. Cora is an electric, autonomous fully fledged air taxi that takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane.