Electrek

JANUARY 25, 2022

Wisk Aero, the California-based eVTOL company from Google co-founder Larry Page, recently announced a $450 million funding boost from The Boeing Company to further develop its Cora, an electric VTOL aircraft that the company plans to get type-certified with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as an autonomous, all-electric, air taxi.

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EV Central

JULY 5, 2023

I have an almost disturbing and possibly dangerous love of speed – skiing, driving, roller coasters; the faster it is the more alive I feel – so it came as a slightly embarrassing surprise to find myself properly, squealingly scared at the sedate pace of 30km/h in my self-driving robo-taxi. Because America.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2022

Firefly, a fast-growing in-car and car-top mobility media company and a Google Ventures-backed startup, will collaborate with Hyundai in promoting its vehicles—including EVs—to rideshare fleets and drivers across key US cities.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 8, 2018

Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google's parent company, Alphabet, put in an order for 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans last week to put into test fleets around the country. Riders will be able to summon the vans as taxis and be whisked to their destination complete with a "driver" who isn't actually driving.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Volkswagen’s system relies on the D-Wave quantum annealer, a different kind of machine than the universal quantum computers under development by other firms, including Google. Volkswagen believes that such a traffic optimization system could be offered to public transport companies, taxi companies or fleet operators.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The company envisions a not-too-distant future when dynamic charging will support moving vehicles (from taxi queues to roadways), and autonomous vehicles and robots will charge without human intervention. WiTricity’s technology enables a hands-free and efficient charging experience for EV drivers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Volkswagen believes that such a traffic optimization system could be offered to public transport companies, taxi companies or fleet operators. Volkswagen is cooperating with its technology partners D-Wave and Google, who provide access to their computer systems. Volkswagen and quantum computing.

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2024

Waymo, the self-driving startup owned by Google parent company Alphabet, has been approved by a California agency to expand operations to Los Angeles, after previously only serving the city of San Francisco within the state. “This wouldn’t be possible without the ongoing support of our riders, community partners, and policymakers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Not long after launch though, there will also be an Android version in the Google Play Store, along with a desktop website for booking a vehicle. Meanwhile, the merger of mytaxi and Hailo recently created Europe’s largest app-based taxi booking service with a total of 100,000 drivers.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

In addition to its EV taxis , Gravity partners with building owners and parking operators to implement electric vehicle charging infrastructure to support individual drivers and large EV fleets. This technology caught the eye of Google Ventures (GV), who led a successful seed funding round for an undisclosed amount last November.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 5, 2022

Local DCFC: Factors affecting the equity of EV charging DC Fast Charging is needed in support of transportation services users (taxis, Uber, Lyft, etc…) and for local fleets used by multi-unit dwelling residents, intercity travelers, and local individual EV owners. Access both in and out should be easy, including for medium-duty EVs.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And, surprisingly for such a large movement, the funding is mostly coming from sources outside of the traditional venture-capital community—rich investors and multinational corporations.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Waymo started off as google’s self-driving car project. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has succeeded in boosting the company’s stock price by claiming that the value of the company’s vehicles will rise in the future as self-driving Robo-taxis are activated. .” Onboard for technical and safety reasons.

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EV Driver

AUGUST 29, 2018

Travelling to Loughborough from London to see family on Christmas Day is virtually impossible unless you want to fork out hundreds of pounds on a taxi. That was the case, until I discovered E-Car Club on the 23rd Google search page under “car hire for under 21s”.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2024

The platforms can be mounted with a pickup or van body, and even a passenger design for a taxi. Polestar and Google All Polestar vehicles have Google Built-In , but now the technology will have enhanced features. Whether it is called a Robot Taxi or Driverless Taxi, Zoox wants to stress “The Future Is For Riders…not drivers.”

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Where it used to be Hertz or Avis–or a taxi–the choices now are much more complex. Uber’s value proposition is that it is cheaper than using a taxi and much cheaper than using a personal car. Investors in RelayRides included Google Ventures and GM Ventures. I expect Zipcar to soon have over one million members.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2018

With car2go, moovel, mytaxi/Intelligent Apps (mytaxi, beat, Clever Taxi and Chauffeur Privé), the mobility portfolio in the segment of Daimler Financial Services counted 24.4 moovel group payment and digital wallet options with Google Pay. The Hop Fastpass app for virtual cards is available for download through the Google Play store.

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My Energi

MARCH 11, 2021

to Google Play Store to purchase a digital parrot. So let’s first set the scene; It’s a cold, wet Wednesday evening, mum’s taxi service has been summoned! Well, let’s just say daddy has offered to do the taxi-ing a lot more since owning a Tesla! A final couple of questions, we know you are mightily busy saving the planet!

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

While autonomous driving under the control of a human standby driver is quickly gaining acceptance, robotic vehicles mostly remain out of bounds, especially for car manufacturers, despite Google''s recent announcement to start prototype testing.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

Otherwise, smaller driverless vehicles (including taxis, rideshare services and private cars) could potentially eliminate the need for public transit. Like algorithms used for Lyft and Uber, which sync carpoolers and drivers around optimized routes, so autonomous buses and taxis might offer similar operations but at greater capacity.

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Plug Me In

APRIL 9, 2024

When I told a taxi driver in Marrakech that I was going there, he got angry and shouted: “No! I took a screenshot and uploaded it to Google Images, and immediately Google knew this place was Ben Amera. It stopped a few kilometres before the entrance to the port to drop off passengers, taxis were already waiting.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The initial funding has come from serious investors, including Idealab, the business incubator of entrepreneur Bill Gross, as well as google.org, the green-investments arm of Google. Ride quality is about halfway between what youd expect from a decent small car and the bounce and jounce youd expect when taxiing a small plane on a dirt runway.

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My Energi

AUGUST 12, 2021

Let’s put things into perspective, the term ‘melting ice caps’ gets an average of 2400 google searches a month whilst ‘Greenland ice caps’ gets 90 searches per month. Greenland Glacier, Racing, Melting Ice Caps… What’s it all about?

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