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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Daimler’s integrated mobility service company moovel GmbH ( earlier post ) has acquired a 100% holding in Intelligent Apps GmbH, the operator of the popular mytaxi taxi booking app. Launched in 2009, mytaxi is the world’s first app to enable direct connections between taxi users and taxi drivers.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Bogotá City Public Transport Authority (TRANSMILENIO S.A.) Since BYD entered the Colombian market in 2012 it has made several breakthroughs, including establishing Latin America’s first pure electric taxi fleet in Bogotá in 2013, and now winning this 1,002-unit pure-electric bus order. BYD has a market share of more than 96.5%

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2013

In addition to police vehicles, BYD has deployed more than 300 all-electric, e6 taxis which have been in service in Shenzhen for the last several years, with an accumulated mileage of more than 38.5 BYD expects to deliver 50 e6 taxis starting the second quarter of 2013.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Singapore will implement a new Carbon Emissions-Based Vehicle Scheme (CEV) on 1 January 2012, providing rebates to qualified new cars, taxis, and imported used cars with low carbon emissions, and imposing an equivalent surcharge on higher emitting vehicles. CEV bandings (Singapore dollars). 101 to 120. 121 to 140. 141 to 160. 161 to 210.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 17, 2023

In California and maximum alternative states, taxis are regulated through towns. Each taxicab within the town is related to a medallion, although other drivers might pressure the similar taxi. Till 2010, taxi medallions have been isolated, awarded through seniority.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2013

To achieve a convincing emission result, they extracted vehicle operation from massive taxi Global Positioning System (GPS) data. The concentration result shows that the accuracy of near-road NO 2 estimation is improved with taxi GPS data and the revised MOVES emission inventory. Haobing Liu, Xiaohong Chen, Yuqin Wang, Shu Han (2013).

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Plans are being made to use the e-NV200 for smart transportation in Barcelona, such as for taxis. Along with this, preparations are in process to install a quick charger network and dedicated EV parking areas to support the taxis.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

the leading provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America, unveiled the route plan for the first phase of 150 new LNG fueling stations for America’s Natural Gas Highway (ANGH). ANGH Route map shows initial phase of America‘s Natural Gas Highway. Click to enlarge. Clean Energy Fuels Corp., Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

It envisages Thimphu as a “clean-electric” city in which transportation for its more than 100,000 citizens is powered by clean energy. Bhutan (population 725,296 as of a 2013 estimate ) generates sufficient hydro-electricity that clean energy is the country’s major export, but it must import fossil fuels to run its current vehicle fleet.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The bus delivery for revenue service is only the first step of a memo-of-understanding signed in June, 2013 between BYD and Aruba outlining Aruba’s plans to be the first nation with a carbon-neutral footprint and complete energy independence, with only clean sustainable renewable power sources and electrified public transportation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2014

The global three-wheeler market is primarily concentrated in the Asia-Pacific, which accounted for a market share of 65% of global three-wheeler market, in volume terms, in 2013. Inadequate availability of public transportation, underdeveloped transport & logistic infrastructure, low per capita income, increasing unemployment, etc.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) announced a $15-million incentive program that will encourage companies and individuals to modernize their fleets and convert to electric vehicles. The Company plans to deploy additional electric vehicles in 2013. and a manufacturing facility in New York City.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

It is an enabling technology that makes electric-powered delivery vehicles a viable solution for a wide range of applications, including parcel delivery trucks, taxis, post office trucks and port vehicles, the company suggested. —Andy Marsh, Plug Power CEO. The latter project also has support from the DOE, with $2.5 million in funding.

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APRIL 29, 2014

Additional funding of £50 million (US$84 million) will also be available for local areas to invest in cleaner taxis and buses. At its tenth anniversary in January 2013, the LowCVP announced the intention of ‘moving beyond the tailpipe’. Map out the low carbon transport infrastructure required.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management cited research showing that the number of vehicle kilometers driven will decrease by about 15% under such a mechanism. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018. Tags: Emissions Europe Infrastructure Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Policy. A hat-tip to Stefan!).

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MARCH 14, 2017

In the course of this project, experts from the Volkswagen Code Lab in San Francisco and the Volkswagen Data Lab in Munich and used data from approximately 10,000 taxis in Beijing. Data scientists and AI specialists from Volkswagen have successfully programmed an algorithm to optimize the travel time of all public taxis in the city.

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JULY 12, 2011

This facility will reduce waste transportation costs for Sonoma County’s food industry by an estimated $120,000 per year and cut greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 35,200 tons per year. South Coast Air Quality Management District ($2,600,000 - Match share $6,000,000). USA Waste of California ($489,040 - Match Share $1,051,021).

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 23, 2024

Volvo Cars worked with Swedish taxi companies to test this technology in urban settings. The company was among the first to implement advancements in electric mobility and transportation even back then. It started developing contactless charging stations for electric vehicles in 2013.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

One of the gurus of car sharing, Dr. Susan Shaheen of UC Berkeley, says we are in the age of shared mobility where new modes of alternative transportation services are making great changes. Where it used to be Hertz or Avis–or a taxi–the choices now are much more complex. But take a look at the variety of program available.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

“Hardware is hard ,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared at a tech investors’ event in 2013. Today, some 250 companies are working toward what they hope will be a revolution in urban transportation. There are so many more ways a hardware company can blow up in a nonrecoverable way.”

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NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Singapore-based TUM CREATE unveiled an electric taxi prototype designed for tropical megacities, codenamed EVA, at the Tokyo Motor Show. EVA was designed from the ground-up as an e-taxi and is a result of interdisciplinary research in the areas of energy storage, battery charging, thermal management, and lightweight materials and design.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

The California Energy Commission approved funding of more than $20 million to support low carbon transportation projects; about half went to Tesla Motors. the air district will demonstrate specially designed battery electric taxis that can use switchable batteries to give the vehicles essentially unlimited range.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

which first appeared in 2013, has had it range increased by 57% up to 233 km (145 miles) (based on the Korean approval cycle). South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare purchased 1,200 units of the car last April; the model is also popular as an EV taxi in Seoul, Daegu and Jeju Isla. The SM3 Z.E.,

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Imagine it is 2013 in New York City. The policy, intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and oil consumption, is geared to a nation where most people rely on cars for transportation. In 2008, transportation accounted for 22 percent of all city carbon emissions. million metric tons of transportation emissions in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Hyundai introduced the world’s first mass-produced fuel cell electric vehicle, the Tucson Fuel Cell in 2013, and released NEXO FCEV this year. Domestically, FCEV taxis and car-sharing services are operating on public roads in Ulsan and Gwangju.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For more than a century, Detroit has been known around the world as the leader in transportation innovation,” Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said in the release. “We The tests will focus on the road’s charging efficiency and will be used to evaluate the EV charging road’s potential for long-term public transportation use.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC, released a report assessing and comparing the fuel efficiency of airlines serving the US domestic market in 2010. Zeinali et al. Click to enlarge. It employs a new methodology, developed by a team of researchers (Zou et al. )

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MAY 13, 2013

The first assessment is expected by the end of 2013. The commercial flight with passengers from Toronto, Canada to Mexico City, combined modern aircraft technology, sustainable alternative fuels, streamlined Air Traffic Management and best practice operations such as single-engine taxiing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

Hyundai Motor, as a supplier to the LHNE project, will join the existing consortium of companies with expertise in hydrogen transport infrastructure and operation, working to establish the UK’s first hydrogen transport network covering London and south east England. Hyundai joined the LHP earlier this year. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 21, 2013

The number of available car2go vehicles will also increase from 6,100 to more than 10,000 by the end of 2013. Under test in pilot projects in Stuttgart and Berlin since 2012, moovel will be launched in numerous additional cities in 2013. An initial pilot project is scheduled to be launched in Europe in 2013. Commercial fleets.

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JUNE 13, 2013

will receive $2,999,172 to install two hydrogen fueling stations and to automate two trailer loading operations for transporting hydrogen for fueling from a production facility in Southern California. This effort builds on a productive partnership of public agencies to make progress in attaining a clean, sustainable transportation sector.

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Plug In India

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The Mahindra e2o which was launched in 2013, has LFP cells and owners still are using the battery pack even after 7 and half years of usage. Their electric vehicles have completed 250 million km, which are oil and emission fee transportation, saving 25,000 metric tons of CO2 which is very impressive.

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