Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2023

In so doing, they could reduce travel times and greenhouse-gas emissions. The ground-control stations will be based at the vertiports, which will consist of clusters of helipads on rooftops equipped with the necessary infrastructure to recharge and service eVTOLs and let passengers embark and disembark.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The range-extended electric Metrocab has become the first zero-emission-capable taxi to be licensed by Transport for London to operate on a trial basis as a London Hackney Carriage. The taxi is driven by two 50 kW (peak) electric motors, range-extended with a Euro-5 1-liter gasoline engine coupled with a generator to recharge the 12.2

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2020

Drivers have a huge influence on recuperation used to recharge the batteries while driving. The locally emission-free van can be ordered in two different lengths: in the basic version with a total length of 5140 millimeters or in an extra-long version measuring 5370 millimeters.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2013

on 2011—and is also facing new challenges in providing energy efficient and low emission operations. Ground handling tractors enable large aircraft to be moved from their hangars to the passenger gate, as well as for the pushback to prepare for taxiing to the runway. billion passengers in 2012—up by 4.4%

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved Electrify America’s plan to invest its second $200 million in California Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) infrastructure and education programs. In finding that Electrify America’s Cycle 2 California ZEV Investment Plan meets or exceeds all requirements of the 2.0L

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

million gas-fueled motorcycles and tricycles are currently operating in the Philippines, typically serving as short-distance taxis, with the average tricycle driver earning less than $10 a day. Without intervention, the Philippines is on a course to almost quadruple CO 2 emissions in less than 25 years, the ADB said.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2011

PrimoveCity addresses the range and recharging constraints of electric vehicles and is intended to provide common technology for all forms of electric vehicles, including trams, buses, commercial vehicles, taxis and cars. PrimoveCity utilizes the PRIMOVE technology capable of providing power transfer for all electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Rotterdam Taxi Centre (RTC), one of the biggest taxi operators in the Netherlands, is switching to electric taxis and has put into service two BYD e6 models, following successful extensive operation with an e6 model. e6 electric taxi. This pure EV can then travel for up to 300 km (190 miles). Click to enlarge.

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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 was designed from the ground-up as an e-taxi and is a result of interdisciplinary research in the areas of energy storage, battery charging, thermal management, and lightweight materials and design.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

On the other hand, drivers of other vehicles waste considerable time making special trips to refuel their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles at the liquid fuel station or their battery electric vehicle (BEV) at the rapid recharging station. Slow Level 1 charging [ 11 ] should be used to recharge PHEVLER batteries whenever possible.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2012

plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in China by a greater than five-to-one margin during the forecast period, as the incentives and consumer demand in the country favor emissions-free driving. The HEV cars were sold mostly to individual consumers while PHEVs were sold to taxi fleets in Shenzhen and Beijing, as well as to some.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). Vehicles to be deployed include 163 CNG, the vast majority for high mileage taxis and 18 heavy-duty LNG refuse trucks. Total DOE award: $15,000,000. Greater New Haven Clean Cities Coalition, Inc.’s

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The Technology Strategy Board created the Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator competition to act as a catalyst for industry, the public sector and academia to come together to create low emission vehicles and provide solutions to powering them. The research will include a focus on domestic recharging behavior over a 12-month period.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Instead, while you recharge your battery after a long day at work, your new electric car could be recharging as well. The policy, intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and oil consumption, is geared to a nation where most people rely on cars for transportation. Would these vehicles truly help to lower carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

The EVT will collect real-world information on the use of electric vehicles in Victorian conditions, including information on the market for electric vehicles, both initially and as it matures; impacts of the use of electric vehicles on driver behavior, recharging, vehicle performance and efficiency; and. Vehicle choice.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Better Place, with support from the US Department of Transportation via the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, has committed to bring a switchable battery, electric taxi program to the Bay Area in partnership with the cities of San Francisco and San Jose. The pilot project began on 26 April, in cooperation with Nihon Kotsu Co.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2010

Better Place has extended its switchable-battery electric vehicle (EV) taxi pilot in Tokyo ( earlier post ) to operate through the end of the year. Tokyo’s largest taxi operator, and focuses on the feasibility of battery switch as means for taxis to have instant, zero emission, range extension. Average switch time 59.1

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2018

Vulnerability is created by the need for data sharing between the EV, the recharging or Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE), and the electric grid. This may be accomplished by reducing engine-out emissions to decrease the cost and energy penalty associated with emission control.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Globally, chairman Akio Toyoda has been consistent in questioning a sole focus on battery electric vehicles when it comes to lowering vehicle emissions. However, there is life in the project with further testing about to kick off in Thailand where a fleet of HiLux EVs are being pressed into service as share taxis.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

London was the natural choice to trial TNT’s first zero emission vehicle three years ago, and since then we’ve deployed them around 23 other major towns and cities. On the infrastructure side, London ultimately envisions three types of recharging points: Slow (240V, 13A single-phase). Infrastructure. Fast (240V, 32A three-phase).

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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. Click to enlarge. and 1 hour, EADS said. An on- board 24 V electrical network supplies the avionics and the radios via a converter.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. Since it can operate on 100% biofuel, it is the means for achieving new goals recently set for reducing the use of fossil fuels and cutting the net emission of CO 2 to zero. by Professor Andrew Alfonso Frank.

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Plug In India

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The person driving this change is CEO Herbert Diess, who wants electric cars to make up half of the Volkswagen Group's sales in 2030, and wants 100% of sales in major markets to be zero-emission by 2040. The technology will help VW achieve its goal of recharging a battery of 77 kWh capacity – such as that in today’s ID.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

The e-Golf is currently on sale in Germany, and will be launched late this year or early next year in the US, initially in the ZEV (zero emission vehicle regulation) states (i.e., Higher levels of regen allow the driver to slow the vehicle almost to a stop (with “B”), while recharging the battery. It is indeed quite quiet.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The vehicle, which takes seven-nine hours to fully recharge and has a 250mile range, will be made available to “government agencies, utilities, and maybe some celebrities” as the company part-owned by Warren Buffet bids to raise brand awareness. Now, BYD is set to conquer America. Home field advantage.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

A chemist and government researcher, Wang raised some $300,000 from relatives, rented about 2,000 square meters of space, and set out to manufacture rechargeable batteries to compete with imports from Sony and Sanyo. Equip those cars with electric motors, and fuel costs drop to $400 a year and emissions are reduced to about 1.5

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It was started by a chemist and government researcher named Wang Chuan-Fu in 1995 (same year as Yahoo) to make rechargeable batteries, which it learned to do very well. And if you doubt that they will learn, check out my cover story about BYD in the new issue of FORTUNE, headed to subscribers and newsstands this week.

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