Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Los Angeles now has a fleet of low emission, compressed natural gas (CNG) Ford Transit Connect taxis to help the city upheld its State’s reputation for environmental consideration. The first of ten yellow cabs have now been delivered to the Californian city, with a further 40 set to be put into service by 2012. Ordered [.].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2010

Forty battery-electric taxis-based on BYD’s e6—officially entered service in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. Shenzhen is the first city to officially put electric taxis in operation in China, according to Hu Jianping, president of Shenzhen Bus Group (SBG) at the launch ceremony. Ltd, a joint venture of BYD and SBG.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

During rush hour, the skies over a large city, such as Dubai or Madrid or Los Angeles, would swarm with hundreds, and eventually thousands, of eVTOL “air taxis.” If I started a car service here in Washington, D.C., Even by the standards of big-money tech investment, the vision is giddily audacious.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2011

Automaker BYD is by far China's most aggressive when it comes to electric cars. It launched its F3DM sedan, the world's first production plug-in hybrid, back in December 2008--sales have been poor--and has been testing its all-electric e6 crossover with both taxi fleets in Shenzhen, China, and the Housing Authority of Los Angeles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

plans to start test-marketing the e6 battery-electric vehicle ( earlier post ) in the US next year after almost a year’s delay, and is in talks with officials in Los Angeles to supply e-buses that could eventually lead to a manufacturing plant in the city. The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s BYD Co.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

Amazon’s self-driving car unit, Zoox, is seeking to stay abreast of rival Waymo by expanding its vehicles’ testing in California and Nevada to include a wider area, higher speeds and nighttime driving. It also expanded the Las Vegas area in which the cars can travel to five miles from one mile, it said in a statement.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Waymo has announced that it will start offering fully autonomous ride-hailing services to the general public in Los Angeles starting tomorrow, March 14th, and that Austin, Texas will open up “later this year.” Autopilot, Super Cruise, etc.) count as Level 2, with only Mercedes offering a Level 3 system in the US.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Some auto companies have incorporated car sharing elements into their new business enterprises. New ideas like Tesloop keep popping up.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Travel and expense management company Certify’s Q2 analysis on business expense trends found that Uber, the popular ridesharing service, continues to grow with business travelers, comprising 55% of ground transportation receipts compared with taxi services at 43%. In Q1, Uber had 46% of receipts compared with taxis at 53%.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Finally, Electrify America will invest in DCFC stations specifically designed to serve shared mobility drivers (car share, taxis, and transportation network company (TNC) drivers) to ensure that these high mileage drivers and passengers are able to enjoy the benefits of ZEV adoption conveniently and cost effectively.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

Four of the top 15 markets are in California: San Francisco (1), Los Angeles (2), San Diego (7) and Sacramento (8). Los Angeles. Worth, which has a healthy charging infrastructure in the state that is home to NRG’s eVgo, which provides car charging services. Additionally, for the greater D.C.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. Electrify America also will invest in DCFC stations specifically targeting shared mobility drivers: car share, taxis, and transportation networking company (TNC) drivers. Electrify America will invest in these new metro areas added for Cycle 2: Riverside-San Bernardino. Santa Rosa.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim. Electrify America also will invest in DCFC stations specifically targeting shared mobility drivers: car share, taxis and transportation networking company (TNC) drivers. Santa Cruz-Watsonville. Santa Rosa. Electrify America also will continue to invest in the six Cycle 1 metros: Fresno.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

diesel cars. Electrify America has identified 5 metropolitan areas for the cycle 1 investment (Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, and Sacramento). Electrify America has identified three potential Green City initiatives on which to focus: ZEV car‐sharing, ZEV delivery fleet, and ZEV taxi fleet provider.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

The city currently serves as a public testing ground for over 500 autonomous cars being fielded by Alphabet’s Waymo and General Motors’ Cruise. This opens the door to allow Waymo to begin charging for autonomous taxi services, something Cruise was already doing there, and accelerate their respective AV programs within California.&

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Based on insurance data tabulated by LendingTree’s QuoteWizard , the cities with the worst drivers (in descending order) include Virginia Beach, VA; Dayton, OH; Riverside, CA; Indianapolis, IN; Fresno, CA; Sacramento, CA; Bakersfield, CA; Greenville, NC; Salt Lake City, UT; Los Angeles, CA; and Greensboro, NC.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2019

On Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti released his version of a Green New Deal (LAGND). The LA Green New Deal seeks to “zero out” Los Angeles’ main sources of harmful emissions: buildings, transportation, electricity, and trash. Electrify 10% of taxi fleet by 2022 and 100% by 2028.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2011

BYD all-electric e6 Taxi in service in Shenzhen. In conjunction with the one-year anniversary of its all-electric vehicle Taxi fleet test, BYD announced high-level results of several pilots of its plug-in electric vehicles—the F3DM, e6 and eBUS-12—in fleet testing across the world. Click to enlarge. million kilometers).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

Power , for instance, indicate that while 27 percent of potential car shoppers are “very likely” to consider an EV as their next purchase, only 17 percent of renters indicate the same level of interest. Even used gasoline-powered cars are averaging a monthly car payment of around $525. Consumer surveys from J.D. households.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The EV discussion groups take this up and, with huge amounts of optimism, tell us that we will soon have the ability to instantly charge our electric cars at home or on the highway. A rule of thumb would suggest that a car such as this gets about 5 miles of range for each kilowatt hour of energy taken from the battery.

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Teslarati

APRIL 24, 2024

It will increase—we actually know that it will—significantly faster than the car business, as we expected. And we’ve now turned that on for all cars with the cameras and first computer, everything from Hardware 3 on in North America, so it’s been pushed out to around 1.8 We didn’t have a choice. Martin Viecha: Thank you.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

After all, this composite-bodied two-seater isnt a vehicle that looks much like any other earthbound passenger car youre likely to encounter. The Prius engineers were celebrating a big victory when they managed to shave their cars Cd by 0.01 But dont call the Aptera a car. Cd of the 2010 Toyota Prius. What Is It?

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