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Geely raises $400M via Green Bonds sale to develop and produce TX5 range-extended electric London taxis

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The plug-in hybrid TX5 London Cab will be launched in the UK at the end of 2017 and in international markets in 2018. The global green bonds market amounted to more than US$40 billion in 2015, with issuers including the World Bank, commercial banks, corporations and municipalities. million (US$25.4 million (US$67.5-million)

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Update: SAE J2954 wireless charging validation to 11kW, Recommended Practice to enable autonomous vehicle parking and charging in 2017

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As a concept, payment could be also automated through the same communications hub with no interaction required from the customer except pre-authorizing the payment. In 2018, the vehicle and bench testing data will be used to finalize the Standard J2954 to be a basis for commercialization in 2020 for light duty chargers, stated Schneider.

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eVTOLs: The Future of Urban Air Mobility

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This technology came as a result of major advances in electric propulsion (motors, batteries, electronic controllers) and the growing need for new vehicles for urban air mobility (air taxis). They are a new type of clean, silent, and inexpensive air taxi that has the potential to completely revolutionize our cities in the coming decades.

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Air Taxis Are Safe—According to the Manufacturers

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These concepts and prototypes, representing well over a billion dollars of venture capital investment in 2020 alone , promise that sometime in the near future, point-to-point travel between suburbs and urban centers will happen by air using innovative new flying vehicles that are fast, quiet, clean, and far more affordable than a helicopter.

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Antonov Says New EV Transmission Technology Is Scalable to Wide Range of Passenger and Commercial Vehicles

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Another ideal application would be an all-electric taxi. —Simon Roberts, Antonov’s chief commercial officer. The virtues of downsizing and de-speeding in pursuit of increased mechanical efficiency apply to electrical machines just as much as internal combustion engines.

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TaxiBot: Ricardo Engineered Robotic Vehicle Concept To Reduce Aircraft Fuel Consumption and Noise on the Ground

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Taxiing to and from the airport terminal gate and runway is a major source of CO 2 emissions. The TaxiBot concept is capable of operating with both wide and narrow bodied commercial airliners; it requires no modification to the aircraft, taxiways or runways, and only minor changes to airport infrastructure. Click to enlarge.

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Hyundai Motor to establish Hyundai Mobility Global Innovation Center in Singapore

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The lab, through open innovation on multiple fronts, will explore and prove new future mobility business concepts for eventual expansion into global markets. Combining Hyundai’s open innovations efforts with Singapore’s fertile atmosphere, HMGICs will validate concepts including multi-modal mobility service.

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