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

Green Car Congress

And it is purpose built for use as a taxi service. Passengers, too, will benefit from the new mobility concept. These vehicles offer higher levels of convenience and are also cheaper to buy and maintain because they don’t require oil changes and the brakes don’t wear out so fast, for example. —Jan-Philipp Hasenberg.

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

Green Car Congress

Another ideal application would be an all-electric taxi. Another feature of Antonov’s all-new transmission system is a novel hydraulic circuit, which has the potential of being integrated with an oil-cooled traction motor. —Simon Roberts, Antonov’s chief commercial officer.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. The convenience and low cost of this concept alone merit attention. Thus evaluation of vehicles by e-miles alone omits important consideration of annual emissions.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

Charged EVs

In most cases we need to ask permission to share our customers’ names, but I can mention one company: The Paz Group , one of the biggest, if not the biggest oil and gas company in Israel. Even in Dubai, for example, all the taxi companies need to be fully electric by 2027. They’re called Wattif.

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Renault Unveils Four Concept EVs and Quickdrop Battery Switch System; Commits to 100,000 EVs with Better Place

Green Car Congress

Aerial view of the four ZE Concepts: Twizy, Kangoo, Zoe, and Fluence. Derived from the Twizy ZE Concept, the third vehicle will target urban mobility. The fourth vehicle, which takes its inspiration from Zoe ZE Concept, will go on sale at the beginning of 2012 and will be a multi-purpose daily driver for built-up areas. .

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

In most cases we need to ask permission to share our customers’ names, but I can mention one company: The Paz Group , one of the biggest, if not the biggest oil and gas company in Israel. Even in Dubai, for example, all the taxi companies need to be fully electric by 2027. They’re called Wattif.

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Extreme E – Greenland Glacier – Legacy Programme

My Energi

Though, we get it… you’ve had a busy week at work and now the kids are off school, and so starts that great juggling act between your job and then being head chef, cleaner, taxi driver, events planner, and children’s entertainer, the list goes on!