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EVTOL Companies Are Worth Billions—Who Are the Key Players?

Cars That Think

SMG Consulting (founded by Sergio Cecutta , a former executive at Honeywell and Danaher) has been ranking eVTOL startups in its Advanced Air Mobility Reality Index since December 2020.

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Car News: 2024 Consumer Electronics Show

Clean Fleet Report

The platforms can be mounted with a pickup or van body, and even a passenger design for a taxi. Polestar and Google All Polestar vehicles have Google Built-In , but now the technology will have enhanced features. Whether it is called a Robot Taxi or Driverless Taxi, Zoox wants to stress “The Future Is For Riders…not drivers.”

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The #1 working mum’s guide to buying the perfect electric car

My Energi

to Google Play Store to purchase a digital parrot. Welcome to the world of kids, cars and parenting in the 2020’s! So let’s first set the scene; It’s a cold, wet Wednesday evening, mum’s taxi service has been summoned! Well, let’s just say daddy has offered to do the taxi-ing a lot more since owning a Tesla!

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Are Autonomous Buses the Answer for Efficient Transportation and Reducing Emissions and Fuel Consumption?

Green Car Congress

Otherwise, smaller driverless vehicles (including taxis, rideshare services and private cars) could potentially eliminate the need for public transit. Like algorithms used for Lyft and Uber, which sync carpoolers and drivers around optimized routes, so autonomous buses and taxis might offer similar operations but at greater capacity.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

Plug Me In

Adventures with public transport to EXPO 2020 Dubai Since my return in 2019, I’ve become an “ inspiring speaker ,” and in 2022, I received an invitation to speak at EXPO 2020 in Dubai. When I told a taxi driver in Marrakech that I was going there, he got angry and shouted: “No!