Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

For example, the new IDTechEx report, “Electric Buses and Taxis 2011-2021” forecasts more than 91,000 hybrid electric buses being made in 2021. All that is dependent on progressing from internal combustion engines not designed for this purpose to engines optimized for use in hybrid power trains. Second or third generation?

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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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EV Central

OCTOBER 19, 2023

READ MORE: Toyota HiLux hydrogen fuel cell prototype boasts long range and rapid 2023 Toyota HiLux REVO BEV concept. For now, to spread the message it’s a BEV believer, Toyota has allowed Aussie media the chance to drive the HiLux REVO BEV concept. As its name states, this is a concept. 2023 Toyota HiLux REVO BEV share taxi.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2017

and digitalization as the key opportunities for the future, said CEO Klaus Rosenfeld at the company’s press conference at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. The corollary of that estimate is that 70% of vehicles by 2030 will still have some form of internal combustion engine. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

Otherwise, smaller driverless vehicles (including taxis, rideshare services and private cars) could potentially eliminate the need for public transit. An emerging concept for public transit is to mimic rideshare services. These kinds of programs seek to do more than economize public transportation. Tapping into the rideshare model.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2015

A fleet of self-driving shared cars combined with high-capacity public transport could make 90% of conventional cars in mid-sized cities superfluous under certain circumstances, according to a study published by the International Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

E-Thrust is a “series hybrid” electrical distributed propulsion system concept using one gas power unit providing the electrical power for six fans for lower fuel consumption, fewer emissions and less noise. EADS is also cooperating with Rolls-Royce on a future distributed propulsion system concept (DEAP) for full-size passenger aircraft.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

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

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. The convenience and low cost of this concept alone merit attention. He holds more than 35 patents (12 of which belong to UC Davis), has published more than 100 papers, and is an internationally recognized subject matter expert.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Aerial view of the four ZE Concepts: Twizy, Kangoo, Zoe, and Fluence. From 2011, Renault will progressively roll out four electric vehicles, including two derivatives of internal-combustion vehicles. Derived from the Twizy ZE Concept, the third vehicle will target urban mobility. Twizy ZE Concept. Twizy ZE Concept.

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Baua Electric

JULY 20, 2023

When Zeekr 001 was once introduced, we concept it was once a comic story, because it was once a rebadged Lynk&Co 0 idea from any other Geely model. In the meantime, in Europe, BMW was once pushing the concept that consumers want to have a call and that they’d trade in their usual vehicles with ICE or BEV choices.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Better Place introduced its electric vehicle (EV) services platform at the Frankfurt Motor Show, in conjunction with Renault’s unveiling of the Fluence ZE Concept with Quickdrop (switchable) battery system and an expanded agreement with Renault, committing both companies to a volume of at least 100,000 electric cars in Israel and Denmark by 2016.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The Climate Change Commission has recommended setting a time limit on light vehicles with internal combustion engines entering, being manufactured, or assembled in Aotearoa as early as 2030. Concept Consulting has useful analysis on implementing an ICE ban. Concept Consulting has more information.

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