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This new style of electric tuk-tuk makes me want to drive a taxi in India

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But whatever it’s called, these three-wheeled taxis have used their half-bike, half-wagon design to shuttle folks around cities for decades. And now, a new era of rickshaws is seeing electric drives enabling interesting new designs. Take for instance this yellow behemoth of a bike I found while perusing Alibaba.

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New York City Taxi and Limo Commissions selects Nissan NV200 as Taxi of Tomorrow; fully-electric version possible starting in 2017

Green Car Congress

Nissan NV200 NYC Taxi. The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has selected the Nissan NV200 as the exclusive taxi of New York City for a decade, beginning in late 2013. If the pilot proves successful, the City will explore the possibility of the wider use of electric-powered taxis. Taxi of Tomorrow.

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Survey shows Americans don’t trust self-driving cars. They also don’t know you can’t buy one.

Teslarati

However, the same survey also revealed that nearly one-in-four Americans believe you can currently buy a vehicle that is designed to let drivers take their eyes off the road. The same survey showed 24 percent of consumers believed fully-autonomous vehicles are available to buy and drive right now, which simply is not true.

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Renault Unveils Electric Sedan You Cannot Actually Buy

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The Mobilize Limo is designed for mobility companies, such as ride-hailing and taxi services.

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Twitter begins hiring for ‘Everything App’

Teslarati

From this app, users would be able to use basic social media tools, purchase groceries, call a taxi, text their friends, and much much more. Most notably, Elon Musk led Twitter’s first acquisition of a company since his takeover , buying a small job site that could become a part of the everything app in the future.

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Polaris to buy Global Electric Motorcars LLC (GEM) from Chrysler

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GEM cars are used by local, state and national government agencies, resorts, master-planned communities, universities, medical and corporate campuses, as well as by sports teams, taxi-shuttle services and individual consumers. The six GEM passenger and utility models are legal on most streets with posted speeds of 35 mph or less.

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Roland Berger: demand for purpose-built vehicles for ride-sharing, many electric, to reach 2.5M cars by 2025

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In a new report, consultancy Roland Berger forecasts that one million of these specially designed vehicles, many of them electric, are set to be sold by 2020 in Europe, the United States and China alone. And it is purpose built for use as a taxi service. Demand will reach some 2.5 million by 2025, according to the report.

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