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

Baua Electric

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. Nissan never did achieve a monopoly on New York taxis with the NV200.

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China’s EV Subsidy

Revenge of the Electric Car

Journal article: China to Subsidize Electric Cars. Here’s the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. All-electric e6 vehicles made by BYD charge up in Shenzhen, where the cars are used as taxis. The company launched its all-electric e6 taxis in the southern city of Shenzhen earlier this year.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If Alamouti began his engineering career as a part-time contract worker designing and building mobile-data protocols for taxi dispatch systems at Mobile Data International , in Vancouver. Wireless innovator.

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Air Taxis Are Safe—According to the Manufacturers

Cars That Think

Designed and manufactured in Germany, the Volocopter 2X is a two-seat eVTOL that's been in testing since 2013. This article appears in the November 2021 print issue as "How Safe Are eVTOLs? ". Volocopter. But even a failure that improbable must not be catastrophic, says Reinhardt.

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NYC Goes EV

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: ‘The New York study anticipates that by 2015, electric vehicle prices should decline because of reduced battery costs, that there will be a sufficient supply of electric vehicles to purchase, and that consumers will take advantage of the existing federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric cars. by Lars Vercelli.

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2020 Electric Vehicle Industry Report Card and trends for the new year

Plug In India

Electric Vehicles for Deliveries and Shared Mobility Logistic companies, delivery companies, Food-delivery startups and shared mobility players have drawn out plans to phase out using Internal Combustion Engine vehicles and switch to electric. We wrote an article on how why India does not need more pollution SUVs.

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