Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2011

Nissan NV200 NYC Taxi. The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has selected the Nissan NV200 as the exclusive taxi of New York City for a decade, beginning in late 2013. If the pilot proves successful, the City will explore the possibility of the wider use of electric-powered taxis. Taxi of Tomorrow.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 7, 2012

You probably know that places like New York City and San Francisco are known for their high numbers of hybrid taxis, but a small taxi firm in Washington state has gone one step further, turning Nissan Leafs and Chevrolet Volts into taxis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

At the Marrakech Climate Change Conference (COP22), eight nations—Canada, China, France, Japan, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the US— signed a Government Fleet Declaration , pledging to increase the share of electric vehicles in their government fleets and calling for other governments to join them.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

New York City is adding 70 electric vehicles to its fleet: 50 new Chevrolet Volts, 10 fully electric Ford Transit Connect cargo vans, and 10 new fully electric Navistar E-star utility trucks. The Administration is also working towards the use of electric vehicles in the City’s fleet of more than 13,000 yellow taxis.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2016

The plug-in hybrid TX5 London Cab will be launched in the UK at the end of 2017 and in international markets in 2018. In January 2016, a consortium led by the London Taxi Company was awarded an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) grant of £17.5 The TX5 was designed with an overriding focus on the comfort of passengers and drivers.

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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). a developer and manufacture of axial flux motors, hybrid drive trains and generator sets ( earlier post ), will demonstrate a plug-in hybrid version of the iconic London Black Cab featuring EVO’s DuoDrive system at the.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 26, 2015

Back in 2011, New York City chose a new vehicle to replace the majority of its taxi fleet, then a hodgepodge of Ford Crown Victoria sedans, various hybrid models, and a few minivans. Dubbed the "Taxi of Tomorrow," that vehicle is an adapted version of the Nissan NV200 small van.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 5, 2013

Prior to the Olympic Games in 2008, Beijing was notorious as one of the world''s most polluted cities: so what would the impact be of introducing plug-in electric vehicles to its taxi fleet? The issue has been examined by researchers from the University of Michigan in the ACS journal Environmental S[.].

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 12, 2015

Several cities have experimented with electric taxis, but Montreal could soon have one of the largest fleets in operation. A company operating in the Canadian city is undertaking a plan to put 2,000 electric taxis in service by 2019.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 25, 2016

The project to build plug-in hybrid versions of the iconic London black cab is about to receive a significant new dose of funding. The company that makes the cabs, London Taxi Company (LTC), is now owned by the Chinese carmaker Geely. That company—which also owns Volvo—has already provided cash and design input.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

Ford detailed seven of the 13 new global electrified vehicles it plans to introduce in the next five years, including hybrid versions of the iconic F-150 pickup and Mustang in the US, a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) Transit Custom van in Europe and a fully electric SUV with an expected range of at least 300 miles (483 km) for customers globally.

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Blink Charging

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Typically, an EV charging station will require a dedicated circuit for every plug (though load management features may allow you to share power). The world is turning to electricity to help clean up the transportation sector, and that includes airports and airline travel. C climate-aligned future.” Currently, there are over 4.2

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2011

It launched its F3DM sedan, the world's first production plug-in hybrid, back in December 2008--sales have been poor--and has been testing its all-electric e6 crossover with both taxi fleets in Shenzhen, China, and the Housing Authority of Los Angeles. Encouraging data.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

Plug Power Inc., This $3-million project is funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and includes project partners FedEx Express, Plug Power and Smith Electric Vehicles. This $3-million project is funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and includes project partners FedEx Express, Plug Power and Smith Electric Vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 7, 2017

China's latest effort to promote electric cars focuses on taxis in its capital city of Beijing. Now the city also plans to replace its entire fleet of gasoline taxis with electric cars. The country that is now the world's largest new-car market already offers generous purchase incentives for electric cars bought by individuals.

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Electric Vehicles India

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Carzonrent India P Limited, India’s first electric vehicle mobility as a service brand Plug Mobility has partnered with Fortum Charge & Drive India Pvt. Ltd is an EV charging infrastructure service provider to build charging infrastructure for Carzonrent’s fleet of 19,000 cars.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) intends to issue a $35-million funding opportunity (FOA DE-FOA-0001224) ( earlier post ) covering a broad spectrum of its Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) portfolio with topics ranging from research and development (R&D) to demonstration and deployment projects.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Taxis make up a large part of the traffic in cities, and in the same way it's proved popular with individual owners, the Nissan Leaf electric car appears to have the favor of cabbies. The Leaf--along with the e-NV200 electric van--is becoming more common in taxi.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2012

The government of China—now the world’s largest automotive market—has made vehicle electrification central to its plan for growing the automotive market both domestically and internationally, and accordingly has created many national and local incentives for plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) purchases. Source: Pike Research.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The projects include those addressing biofuels, natural gas, and technology for hybrid and electric plug-in vehicles. —$750,000—to purchase 29 compressed natural gas ( CNG ) and electric/plug-in vehicles , and to install 10 public electric vehicle charging stations—the first of their kind in Pennsylvania. Giant Eagle Inc.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. Where it used to be Hertz or Avis–or a taxi–the choices now are much more complex. trillion in 2026.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

IDTechEx calculates that non-automotive EV sectors in 2021 demanded approximately 31 GWh globally in 2021; for reference, battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars demanded approximately 280 GWh globally in 2021. IDTechEx’s latest master electric vehicle report “ Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042 ” finds 35.7

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The upcoming SAE J2954 Recommended Practice will enable a seamless, automated standard methodology to charge for individual vehicles to fleets of autonomous vehicles and their infrastructures. Earlier post.). 7.7kW) in 2016. All of this with a specification to charge with high efficiencies over an air gap of 250mm (10 inches).

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Green Cars News

MAY 1, 2011

After introducing an all-electric vehicle taxi test fleet one year ago, BYD has now announced the results of its pilot scheme featuring the F3DM, e6 and the eBus-12.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

Permits: discounts for LEVs to operate in low emission zones and for residents; preferential permits for LEV taxis. Permits: discounts for LEVs to operate in low emission zones and for residents; preferential permits for LEV taxis. Planning: embedding consideration for LEV fuelling infrastructure into local development.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 1, 2017

General Motors officials made a bold announcement on a Thursday conference call with investors: the automaker plans to launch commercial autonomous fleet operations beginning in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2010

NESTIA will place special focus on deployment of clean energy vehicles in taxi, bus, refuse and sanitation fleets, along with the accompanying charging infrastructure. Tags: China Electric (Battery) Fleets Heavy-duty. lithium-ion battery manufacturer MGL and electric motor provider Broad Ocean.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2012

A CNG vehicle, such as a taxi, bus or small truck, can then refill its tank using a traditional fuel dispenser, much like those used for diesel or gasoline refueling. Its modular and intuitive design makes it “Plug & Play” on-site. This represents savings totaling as much as $1,500 per fleet vehicle per year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

in 2021 to create a wireless charging infrastructure with alignment communications for autonomous vehicles (for example, taxi fleets). In addition, eight OEMs have light-duty vehicle testing planned to begin in third quarter for WPT 1-3 which is scheduled to be completed in 2018. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2018

Voyage, a startup in the autonomous taxi space, entered into a long-term strategic partnership with Renovo, a mobility technology company, to license Renovo’s AWare OS for use across its global fleet of automated vehicles. Renovo built AWare specifically for fleet operators such as Voyage.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2009

The system’s “plug-and-play” modularity enables the powertrain to expand or contract depending on the vehicle type, and can be applied to vehicles using any type of fuel. This ultimately reduces emissions and operating costs for fleet vehicle users. LaSorda joined the ALTe Board as ALTe’s Lead Director and investor. Tom LaSorda.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

ALTe is targeting fleet vehicles such as delivery trucks, vans and shuttle buses and even potentially taxis and limos, in the light- to medium-duty vehicle classes—initially as conversions, but ultimately extending to an OEM basis. Earlier post.) kWh Li-ion pack from A123 Systems. —John Thomas.

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Baua Electric

JULY 17, 2023

Together with plug-in hybrids, China’s clean-car gross sales clash 5.67 By way of: Bloomberg | Up to date on: 18 Jul 2023, 08:55 AM A truck transports unutilized Tesla vehicles at its manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China. REUTERS) Beijing’s luck is breathtaking. And the generation is accelerating.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2011

BYD all-electric e6 Taxi in service in Shenzhen. In conjunction with the one-year anniversary of its all-electric vehicle Taxi fleet test, BYD announced high-level results of several pilots of its plug-in electric vehicles—the F3DM, e6 and eBUS-12—in fleet testing across the world. Click to enlarge.

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

Norway leads electric vehicle (EV) adoption, boasting the highest share of new EV purchases worldwide. In the last five months, zero-emission vehicles have made up over 50% of its overall car sales , up from 31.2% in 2018 and 42.4% So how did this largely rural Scandinavian country become the global leader in EV adoption? million tonnes per year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Thus, it enables customers and taxi fleets a way to charge without the need for human interaction. This disruptive technology changes the game for EVs by removing the need for the customer to plug in—making the act of charging not about the plug, but parking in the right spot. WPT 1-3 (3.7-11 Schneider, J.,

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Drive Electric

MARCH 29, 2022

By combining flexibility and experience with industry-leading technology, Fleet Partners offers innovative, cost-effective, tailored solutions designed to meet the needs of every business. Businesses in NZ are setting new targets for their fleets to reduce CO2 emissions and driving down fleet costs. Step 1: Your carbon strategy.

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