Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2013

The city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) is launching an electric taxi program, through a partnership between the Rio de Janeiro City Government, Nissan do Brasil Automóveis (NBA) and Petrobras Distribuidora. In the first phase, two Nissan LEAF taxis will be available in Rio. By the end of the year, 13 more units will be added to the fleet.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2013

Nissan and New York City have launched a new electric vehicle taxi pilot with the Nissan LEAF. This pilot program, which puts six LEAF taxis into service beginning this spring, will help Nissan, the city, the taxi industry and the public understand how EVs can be integrated into future taxi fleets.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

The batteries can run for up to 155 miles of typical urban driving on the service routes with recharging requiring only four hours. SunLine Services Group regulates three taxi franchises who provide taxi services throughout the Valley. The buses seat 35 and have room for more than 60 standing passengers. million riders.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

A mid-day recharge will double this. The strategy will include vehicles from individuals, businesses, municipalities and non-profit organizations, as well as taxis and government fleet vehicles. Among other incentives, a project to “green” 525 taxis will be set up in Montreal and other Quebec regions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

These vehicles are the green machines that will provide a critical part of the renewable and sustainable society that we need for the future. [ Slow Level 1 charging [ 11 ] should be used to recharge PHEVLER batteries whenever possible. About the authors. Dr. Andrew A. BEVs have an ongoing problem with range anxiety. [

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2020

kWh/100km), electric passenger transport has also grown to meet electric mobility requirements: as a hotel shuttle, as a large taxi or vehicle for ride sharing services. For flexibility, the integrated quick charging function also ensures the battery can be recharged from 10% to 80% within approximately 25 minutes.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

Express del Futuro, a partner-operator of Transmilenio, and BYD unveiled plans for an electric bus fleet in Bogotá, Colombia. In December 2012, BYD Ltd and Praco Didacol (BYD’s Colombian distribution partner) announced that BYD e6s would being placed into Taxi service in Q1 2013 in the Colombian capital as a pilot. Earlier post.).

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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

JANUARY 3, 2017

These include EV fleet management, route planning and telematics solutions. In addition, in New York and several major US cities, Ford is testing a fleet of 20 Transit Connect hybrid taxi and van prototypes in some of the world’s most demanding traffic conditions. FordPass also can help consumers reserve charging times.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The plan also includes investments for charging stations to support ZEV bus fleets and ride hail services, as well as residential and autonomous vehicle charging. Electrify America also will invest in DCFC stations specifically targeting shared mobility drivers: car share, taxis, and transportation networking company (TNC) drivers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Awards include (ranked by amount): PHL Taxi Management LLC —$900,000 – to purchase and deploy 50 new CNG taxis in Philadelphia that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and to build a publicly accessible CNG fueling station in the city. The company intends to use natural gas in its fleet of trash and recycle trucks.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state. The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative.

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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 Cars News

JUNE 26, 2012

Hybrid taxi service Climatecars appointed Siemens to install its first charging post as the London-based firm expands its fleet to include new, rechargeable models. Two new Renault [.].

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

OorjaPac addresses low vehicle runtime and operational cost challenges facing material handling fleet managers by continuously trickle-charging the on-board battery in a material handling vehicle, regardless of whether it is operating or parked, thereby ensuring the battery never reaches a state of deep discharge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The project will include 15 Nissan cars, 10 Smith electric taxis, five Smith people carriers, a Smith executive minibus, two AVID saloon cars and two Liberty urban Range Rovers, alongside a network of charging points. The research will include a focus on domestic recharging behavior over a 12-month period.

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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

JULY 8, 2022

Personal cars and taxi fleets in China are now adopting this technology as well with ambitious targets set by companies for rolling out their own swap station networks. It could be very likely that these OEMs introduce swapping as an alternate recharging strategy there. Commercial fleets.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2012

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. Recharging infrastructure and vehicle and technical standards are lacking. and buses accounting for 27.6% (or more than 2,000 units). Municipal vehicles composed the remaining 10%.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Ford Motor Company is unveiling the all-electric version of the Ford Transit Connect at the Chicago Auto Show; the small electric van will be in fleet operators’ hands later this year, according to the company. A transportable cord that works with both types of outlets will be available for recharging at both kinds of locations.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

billion invested in 180 green-technology companies. billion invested in 180 green-technology companies worldwide in the first quarter of 2010, according to a study by the Cleantech Group and Deloitte. In 2008 the company released a test fleet of 450 Mini-E vehicles and is getting ready to announce its second phase.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The cars’ first placement is with Newcastle City Council, where they are supplementing its vehicle fleet and being allocated to staff making trips around the city, as an alternative to using fleet cars with conventional petrol or diesel engines. Tags: Latest news cenex electric Green cars north east regional smart trial.

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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

MARCH 4, 2014

The battery can be recharged overnight using a domestic 16-amp single-phase 3.3 A dedicated CHAdeMO DC 50 kW quick charger can recharge the battery from 0-80 percent in 30 minutes or less if the battery is already partially charged. Fleet operators, meanwhile, will love the low running costs. kW/32-amp supply is used.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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. 2023 Toyota HiLux REVO BEV share taxi. Toyota wasn’t able to share motor type or outputs, battery size, chemistry or recharging speed.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

UK retailer Sainsbury Online, which uses the Smith Electric Vehicles Edison electric vans for home shopping delivery in London, is ordering another 50 Smiths electric vans for its fleet. With 100 Smith Electric Vehicles electric commercial vehicles, TNT has the largest fleet of new technology electric delivery trucks in the world.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

These fuel cell vehicles will be leased to key public and private fleet users in the capital. Battery electric vehicles are a great technology but like the fax machine they are only temporary and there is a great deal of consumer resistance towards them for all manner of reasons, including range and the time it takes to recharge them.

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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. ABB’s Terra stations can recharge an EV battery in as little as 15 to 30 minutes.

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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. Tags: The Green Piece BYD China. Now, BYD is set to conquer America. Home field advantage.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The pure electric vehicles, for reserve, must carry heavy and expensive batteries—which add expense as well as weight—and must have access to high-powered recharging stations [ 1 ]. Furthermore, even the older version PHEV can recharge at a slow rate using local solar, wind, water-derived or other net zero CO 2 fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

These—including, for example, an electric version of the T2, the iconic VW van of the late 1960s and 1970s—were mostly test cars and prototype cars, but also small fleets for special purposes. Higher levels of regen allow the driver to slow the vehicle almost to a stop (with “B”), while recharging the battery.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

If we wanted to recharge this from 110V domestic service we would need to pull 10,800,000/110 = 96,000 amps. A vehicle with a 200 mile range like the Tesla Roadster would easily be able to do the trip with one recharge. Note this value is in KW not KWHrs since it represents an amount of power delivered in a 2 second burst.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. 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. Business of Green B.T.W.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The second will be an electric version of Renault Kangoo Express, intended primarily for fleet and business use. The driver has three options when it comes to recharging: standard charge, quick charge and Quickdrop. Battery exchange stations will be built to enable journeys longer than 150km, or for specific uses such as taxi fleets.

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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. Li Lu has agreed to come to FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference next week to talk about BYD. Youre already getting our newsletter. BYD is an amazing company.

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