Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2022

Curb, a ride-hailing app for licensed taxi and for-hire rides in North America, announced the execution of a strategic partnership agreement with Uber that will enable Curb-connected drivers to receive trip requests from Uber users.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2010

A prototype electric version of the Mercedes Vito Taxi designed and built in six months by a consortium of British technology companies—Zytek, Valence Technology, Penso and Mercedes-Benz UK ( earlier post )—is ready for trials.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Singapore-based TUM CREATE unveiled an electric taxi prototype designed for tropical megacities, codenamed EVA, at the Tokyo Motor Show. EVA is designed to be recharged in just 15 minutes to cover a realistic range of 200 km (124 miles) based on Singapore driving patterns. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2021

Mobilize will unveil Limo, a 4.67m four-door fully-electric sedan, specifically designed for for taxi/private hire (PHV) drivers and fleet, at Munich IAA Mobility 2021. The ride-hailing market (taxis et private hire vehicles, PHV) in Europe is booming; it is set to grow from €28 billion today, to €50 billion by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

Over a three-year period, a small fleet of fully electric Volvo XC40 Recharge cars will be used as taxis by Cabonline, the largest taxi operator in the Nordic region, and charged wirelessly at stations in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

Uber and Hyundai Motor Company announced a new partnership to develop Uber Air Taxis for a future aerial ride share network and unveiled a new full-scale aircraft concept at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). —Eric Allison, head of Uber Elevate. The Hyundai vehicle will be piloted initially, but over time they will become autonomous.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2021

Volocopter’s VoloCity air taxi for commercial UAM services. UAM is an emerging part of the aviation industry focused on aerial connectivity in and around cities. © Volocopter. The company is acquiring its long-standing, trusted partner in innovation and production, DG Flugzeugbau, a global leader in composite aircraft production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2016

China-based automaker Geely has launched Lynk & Co —a new global car brand designed and engineered in Sweden; every model will feature an electrified powertrain. Full mobile connectivity will also be standard, working in partnership with Ericsson. —Andreas Nilsson, Head of Lynk & Co design.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2010

Accumulated fuel consumption over Cenex drive cycle for standard London taxi (TX2) and DuoDrive-equipped TX2 (blue line). In recent tests, the DuoDrive taxi demonstrated a 56% improvement in fuel economy compared to a standard London Taxi (TX2), and simulations predict that an improvement of 100% is possible with further optimization.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2012

In the accident, a driver crashed a Nissan GT-R into a BYD e6 electric taxi, and then collided with a separate gasoline taxicab. After the collision, the e6 electric taxi lost control and skidded to the right front, and its rear hit a big tree on the road side leading to a serious column collision.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2017

When the policemen wave the vehicle past, the manager releases the car to continue on by itself along the designated route. SAM will also benefit companies that wish to deploy fleets of commercial autonomous vehicles, including delivery companies, taxi services and transportation systems. Autonomy for commercial services.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

BUZZ CARGO is charged by cable connection. The Crafter HyMotion was specially designed for longer journeys: the longer the daily distance covered, the greater the appeal of the hydrogen fuel cell in large commercial vehicles. The vehicle’s top speed is electronically limited to 160 km/h. The high-voltage battery of the I.D.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

In addition, it has been designed for triple redundancy: If one control unit fails there are two safeguards ensuring absolute failure safety. The technology platform of the Schaeffler Mover is designed for great flexibility, allowing for various body styles from robo-taxis through to autonomous delivery vehicles to be implemented.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Prestige GreenCab, a Dutch taxi operator with a large electric-vehicle fleet, took the initiative for the installations in Utrecht. The Terra 51 is a single-port charger designed for locations with regular traffic. ABB’s Terra stations can recharge an EV battery in as little as 15 to 30 minutes. The multi-port Terra Base Station 100.2

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Air-One is a world-first fully-operational hub for future electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft—such as cargo drones and air taxis—to be launched in Coventry (UK) later this year. The design enables Urban Air Ports to be easily moved to alternative sites, as the air-mobility sector develops.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

The first high speed taxiing tests were successfully carried out on the Rapid 200-FC aircraft between 10 to 18 December of last year. The starting up, functioning under power and taxiing tests of the aircraft were carried out along the 1,400 meter runway at the Reggio Emilia airport over the last few weeks. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Designing autonomous systems that can handle those exceptional situations could take decades, and in the meantime, we’re going to need something to fill the gap. It utilizes connected vehicle technology and a remotely located control center. It also keeps the era of cars as autonomous rolling living rooms out of reach.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 30, 2025

While this is a reductive description, we can think about EV range extenders as a sort-of oversized alternator thats connected to an engine that's exists exclusively to keep the device spun up so it can, in turn, convert liquid fuel into electricity. Among other things, ZF's electric machines were installed in a series of iconic London taxis.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

It features a new 190 kW hydrogen fuel cell system with two fuel cell systems connected in parallel, also a feature of NEXO. The fuel cell electric truck features a distinctive design. It is presented in a simple and clean design which is also aerodynamically efficient, and features a spoiler and side protector.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2018

The partners intend to offer their customers a holistic ecosystem of intelligent, seamlessly connected mobility services, available at the tap of a finger. Together, the BMW Group and Daimler AG plan to grow this new business model sustainably and enable rapid global scaling of services.

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2023

They will be flying between specially designed stations called vertiports, as well as to airports and other transportation terminals, hospitals, and cargo depots. Most of the eVTOLs being designed or flown now are intended to be flown by a pilot on board, at least for the first several years of commercial operation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

Taxi driving as a profession: what separates the driver of hackney carriages from other. Are taxi drivers operating a private business, performing a public. Taxi drivers as a community: what do cabbies think of each other? reflexive process that is integral to the Steer approach to behavior change, by connecting.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

A high-volume autonomous vehicle designed for commercial ride hailing or ride sharing, starting in North America. In Europe, Ford will put the Transit Custom plug-in hybrid on the road later this year, along with a new set of mobility services, telematics and connectivity solutions. New Services.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

ZAP Jonway plans to introduce an electric A280—the “little brother”to the A380 being used as an electric taxi. These vehicles are now being showcased and used as electric taxis at the Shanghai Expo. Click to enlarge. The new company creates an integrated worldwide sales and manufacturing operation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2018

Faurecia, a ZF partner company, particularly developed the cockpit design and the interaction concept. With its open architecture, ZF ProAI is scalable—the hardware components, connected sensor sets, evaluation software and functional modules can be adapted to the desired purpose and degree of automation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2022

BlackBerry Limited and BDStar Intelligent & Connected Vehicle Technology Co., The China-built EV is also being exported to Europe, where it will be used by Renault Group’s subscription-based Mobilize business unit as the go-to vehicle for people working in mobility services – taxis, ride-hailing, private vehicle hires and more.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The J2954 standard test stand is based on the circular topology but also provides a way to demonstrate compatibility to other topologies such as the “double D” design. The GA contains a grid-connected Power Factor Correction (PFC) converter, followed by a DC-AC inverter, a filter and impedance matching network (IMN) connected to the GA coil.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

This approach requires not just the design engineering of the vehicle, but also the development of the integrated assembly process (enabled by the MQB), plus training of personnel in the plant. In designing the motor housing unit, Volkswagen was also able to achieve an extremely low level of noise emissions. More on this below.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2020

The Lilium Jet is a five-seater, emissions-free aircraft that can take off and land vertically and is designed to provide high-speed regional connections of up to 300km in under 60 minutes. Entities around the world are developing airframes and operational systems for air taxi services. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2018

TomTom AutoStream is designed in a flexible way, allowing customers to customize the map data stream based on criteria such as sensor configuration and horizon length. TomTom and Zenuity— a joint venture of Autoliv and Volvo Cars—are collaborating on “Zenuity Connected Roadview” for autonomous vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Electrify America also will invest in DCFC stations specifically targeting shared mobility drivers: car share, taxis, and transportation networking company (TNC) drivers. This will include building new sites connecting regional destinations, such as supporting travel to the Sierra Mountain communities and destinations like Lake Havasu.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Since we built the first commercial quantum computer, D-Wave has been focused on designing systems that enable quantum application development and deliver business value. For the pilot project in Lisbon, 26 stops were selected and connected to form four bus links.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The most striking feature of the HY4 is its two fuselages, which are firmly connected to each other by the wing. This twin fuselage design allows an optimal distribution of the drive components and a higher total loading capacity. Each one can seat two occupants. The maximum weight of the HY4 is 1500 kilograms (3,300 lbs).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The B2B approach is designed especially for commuters. SPLT uses an app to connect people who share the same route to their place of work or study. Ridesharing, in which digital services and apps are used to form carpools and to organize vehicle sharing and taxis, is a growth market in the connected mobility sector.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Electrify America also will invest in DCFC stations specifically targeting shared mobility drivers: car share, taxis and transportation networking company (TNC) drivers. This will include building new sites connecting regional destinations, such as supporting travel to the Sierra Mountain communities and destinations like Lake Havasu.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Young electric water taxi service E-lixr is pivoting its previous business strategy to become the USs first operator of all-electric vessels. Here, we learned that E-lixrs initial transport solutions would include electric water taxi services in the US, beginning in Miami.

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