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Toyota, Air Liquide and CaetanoBus partner to accelerate the development of hydrogen mobility in Europe

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Air Liquide, CaetanoBus and Toyota Motor Europe have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing integrated hydrogen solutions. Concept of hydrogen ecosystem. This will include infrastructure development and vehicle fleets to accelerate the expansion of hydrogen mobility for both light- and heavy-duty vehicles.

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7,000 Global LEVC Electric Taxi Sales, Renault Scenic Vision Concept, Bike to Work Day — EV News Updates

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Along with those special celebrations, we have news on free electric cab rides this week, fun concept cars, Volvo customers now having access to more than 270,000 charging points in Europe, growing electric taxi sales, and more. May 20th is World Bee Day, and National Bike to Work Day. Electric Cars Renault Scenic […].

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BMDV providing €20M to support fleet electrification and infrastructure

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The funding is intended to support municipal and commercial fleets such as vehicle fleets, company cars, taxis, mobility and sharing services in an accelerated switch to alternative drives. Taxis and courier services in particular have an enormously high mileage of thousands of kilometers a year—especially in our inner cities.

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Airbus unveils 2050 vision for “Smarter Skies” based on 5 operational concepts

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Already, if the Air Traffic Management (ATM) system and technology on board the aircraft were optimized, Airbus research based on recent research suggests that flights in Europe and the US could on average be around 13 minutes shorter, and flights in other parts of the world could be shorter too.

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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. Passengers, too, will benefit from the new mobility concept.

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Hypercar Company Rimac Developing Robotaxi Service

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The business is reportedly in the middle of a plot to develop robotaxi services for Europe and making some decent headway at that. The electric hypercar company was developing an autonomous taxi based around the Renault Espace minivan. Though Rimac does seem fairly serious about the concept.

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First European BYD e6 EVs to arrive in Rotterdam City

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BYD Company Ltd (BYD) and Rotterdam City entered into an agreement to deliver BYD’s all-electric e6 vehicles as part of the Netherlands’ green transportation project “75-EV-RO”; these will be the first BYD e6s in Europe. Netherlands Prince Maurits van Oranje test drives the BYD all-electric e6 in Rotterdam. Click to enlarge.

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