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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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Using models they built and data from more than 10 million taxi trips in New York City, they found that the cost of service provided by a fleet of shared automated electric vehicles (SAEVs) would be $0.29-$0.61 per revenue mile—an order of magnitude lower than the cost of service of present-day Manhattan taxis and $0.05–$0.08/mi

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Thriev adding 20 BYD e6 electric cars to London fleet

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Part of the deal with BYD is that Thriev will equip its facility at Edgware Road, west London, with BYD’s purpose-designed charging equipment, which allows fast charging of the e6 in just two hours. Thriev , a company offering zero-emission, chauffeured cars to corporate and private users in London, is adding 20. Earlier post.).

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Finally, Tesla Confirms The Wireless Charging & A Little More On Wireless Charging of EVs

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It would make sense for the cars to be able to charge themselves without needing a person to plug them in if they were capable of driving alone. Apart from sharing this photo as part of a presentation, the company never made any comments on this Regard. For example, they have opened a test site for taxis in Vienna, Austria.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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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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BMW, Daimler moving ahead with mobility services JV following US greenlight

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The basis for this is the approval of the US antitrust authorities, which was received on 18 December 2018. All antitrust authorities involved have now given the green light for the new joint venture, which is owned in equal parts by the BMW Group and Daimler AG. More than four million customers already use these carsharing services.

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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 million customers as of July 30, 2018. The mobility joint venture with BMW is part of our mobility strategy. The number of transactions reached 95.3

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Nissan CEO announces LEAF with ProPilot autonomy; other autonomous and connected technologies & partnerships

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In his 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote, Nissan chairman of the board and chief executive officer Carlos Ghosn made five key announcements of several technologies and partnerships as part of the Nissan Intelligent Mobility blueprint for transforming how cars are driven, powered, and integrated into wider society.

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