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JANUARY 15, 2015

the operator and developer of KuaiDi Dache, a leading mobile taxi booking app provider in China, SoftBank Internet and Media, Inc. Launched in 2012, KuaiDi Dache has grown to become one of the leading and most widely used mobile taxi booking app providers in China. Travice Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It appears that over half of Vietnamese electric vehicle startup VinFast’s sales during the first half of 2023 were to a taxi firm that’s owned by VinGroup, the automaker’s parent company. billion shares are owned by Vietnam Investment Group and Asian Star, which are also owned by Vuong. Out of the 2.3

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The Volkswagen Group is progressing with its work with quantum computers ( earlier post ). As a result, public transportation organizations, taxi companies, and transport service providers will be able to deploy their fleets considerably more efficiently while minimizing waiting times for passengers.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

New Delhi: Ola Mobility, India’s largest ride-hailing platform, introduced the “RideAhead” campaign, a transformative initiative focused on empowering women through their eBike taxi rides. The conversations offered interesting insights, which were captured and released in a short video.

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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2021

The New York Taxi and Limousine Commission’s (TLC) efforts to block the deployment of 50 Tesla Model Y taxis from electric transit startup Revel were successful. This effectively blocks Revel from launching its 50 Model Y taxis without breaking city rules. Do you have anything to share with the Teslarati Team?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

have established a partnership to provide platform services for the taxi industry. The partnership will utilize DiDi’s advanced AI technologies to build ride-hailing platforms to enhance efficiency for both taxi operators and drivers. In 2017, taxi drivers completed 1.1 In 2017, taxi drivers completed 1.1

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2016

The Japan Federation of Hire-Taxi Associations and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to study on areas for collaboration, so as to develop and introduce the Japanese taxi of the future. Toyota is now developing a next-generation taxi.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The proposal would also aid the creation of one million jobs across the continent and help the EU meet its climate goals, according to the groups. The number of publicly accessible chargers should increase in line with the number of EVs on the road, the groups also proposed.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Would you ride in Hyundai’s electric flying taxi? Hyundai’s advanced air mobility company, Supernal, unveiled its electric flying taxi at CES Tuesday. Hyundai debuts electric air taxi at CES The S-A2 is an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle that builds on its first concept that debuted at CES in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

Using models they built and data from more than 10 million taxi trips in New York City, they found that the cost of service provided by a fleet of shared automated electric vehicles (SAEVs) would be $0.29-$0.61 per revenue mile—an order of magnitude lower than the cost of service of present-day Manhattan taxis and $0.05–$0.08/mi

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Hyundai’s air mobility arm Supernal plans to put its new S-A2 aircraft into production in 2028 ahead of what it expects to be a huge increase in demand for electric aircraft as an alternative to taxis in cities. The future of our group will allow us to do much more than urban air mobility. At Hyundai we’re doing more than just cars.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2014

The Mayor confirmed his plan at Transport for London’s (TfL’s) “New Taxis for London” event, at which he met five manufacturers developing zero emission capable taxis—Frazer-Nash, Nissan, Karsan, London Taxi Company and Mercedes-Benz.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

The aspiring Model Y taxi service expected to win approval for its operations in the city because a 2018 cap on new rideshare and taxi vehicles included exemptions for electric vehicles, as well as cars that are accessible to handicapped individuals. This is a simple math issue. Do you have anything to share with the Teslarati Team?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Data compiled by Euromonitor for European research and campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) shows a surge in the number of Uber drivers (officially registered as private hire vehicles - PHV) in the past few years. Evolution of taxi drivers, PHV drivers (England), and Uber drivers (London) compared to taxi and PHV CO 2 emissions (UK).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2018

The BMW Group and Daimler AG have signed an agreement to merge their mobility services business units. 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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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. Mobilize Limo is the result of the joint venture created by Renault Group and Jiangling Motors Group Co., Ltd (JMCG) in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

Nanjing, China and Nanjing Public Transportation Group ordered more than 1,000 fully electric transit buses and taxis from BYD Company Ltd. Nanjing Jiangnan Electric Taxi Ltd. Authorities also placed an order for 400 of BYD’s all-electric e6, a 5-passenger cross-over utility vehicle, some of which have already hit the streets.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2013

BYD announced the launch of Hong Kong’s first all-electric taxi fleet using the BYD e6 electric cross-over sedan. Hongkong first pure electric taxi fleet. Hongkong first pure electric taxi fleet. BYD also announced that the e6 “Taxi version” and e6 “Premier” sedan were now officially on sale in Hong Kong.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

The City of Bogota, Colombia, has launched a pilot project to spur the use of electric vehicles in Bogota’s center-city taxi fleet. The first taxis are expected to be operational in the city in the next few months. —Jay Carson, CEO, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. 677 to support the project over a three-year period.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2021

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, a brand within the Volkswagen Group, is consistently and rapidly advancing the development and implementation of autonomous driving. In addition to the initial investment of US$1 billion, the Volkswagen Group also contributed its subsidiary AID (Autonomous Intelligent Driving) into Argo AI.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2016

China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (ZGH) has raised $400 million through the first Green Bond sale on the offshore market from a Chinese automobile company to support the design, development and production of range-extended electric vehicles by its UK subsidiary, the LondonTaxi Company (LTC), manufacturer of the iconic London Black Cab.

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InsideEVs

AUGUST 1, 2022

validation prototype is an all-electric drone with eight rotors for vertical lift and two propellers for horizontal flight.

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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 Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The Volkswagen Group and global mobility provider Gett announced their strategic partnership in May this year. A survey conducted among Gett drivers who own their taxis pinpointed drivers’ specific requirements and vehicle preferences, to ensure maximum value to Gett’s driver-partners. Earlier post.) 30 percent).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Hyundai Motor Group, which is driving a software-driven transformation for its Group brands (Hyundai, Kia and Genesis) today announced its ‘Software-defined Everything’ (SDx) strategy, which aims to transform all moving devices, fleets and ecosystems into valuable assets through advanced software and AI.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Eco City Vehicles PLC (ECV), a developer and supplier of eco-friendly commercial vehicles and the London licensed taxi, launched an all-electric prototype of the London-licensed Mercedes Vito taxi, developed by a consortium of companies including ECV’s manufacturing partner Penso, Mercedes Benz UK and Zytek Automotive. million (US$3.9-million)

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2023

Our Texas-based group is focusing on three of these issues: autonomy, communications, and standards. On the standards front, we are part of an IEEE working group, P1920.2 , developing standards for vehicle-to-vehicle communications. The working group plans to release the draft standard by the end of 2023.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Volkswagen Group and Google will partner on research in the field of quantum computing. Volkswagen Group IT wants to make progress in three development areas on the Google quantum computer. —Martin Hofmann, Chief Information Officer of the Volkswagen Group. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

For this purpose, the Group is equipping MAN buses of the public transport provider Carris with a traffic management system developed in-house. —Martin Hofmann, Volkswagen Group CIO. 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

MAY 18, 2010

Forty battery-electric taxis-based on BYD’s e6—officially entered service in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. Shenzhen is the first city to officially put electric taxis in operation in China, according to Hu Jianping, president of Shenzhen Bus Group (SBG) at the launch ceremony.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 18, 2024

By 2020, we noted , a partnership had been worked out between Jaguar , Momentum Dynamics , Nordic taxi operator Cabonline , and charging company Fortam Recharge. That group set out to outfit 25 Jaguar I-Pace electric SUVs with Momentum Dynamics’ inductive charging receivers. times that range.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In support of Supernal—an advanced air mobility company from Hyundai Motor Group ( earlier post )—BAE Systems will help define the architecture of a lightweight, fly-by-wire system for its autonomous-capable aircraft. The fly-by-wire controls will safely and efficiently control the aircraft during flight.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

A joint venture between Colombian business group Fanalca and international public transport operator Transdev used BYD’s integrated E-bus solutions to bid and successfully won the tender. BYD will co-work with Superpolo, a Colombian bus manufacturer, on the body part of the buses for such order.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Yunnan Investment Holdings Group and BYD intend to open new energy vehicle manufacturing plants in Yunnan Province, expanding BYD’s EV and new-energy businesses into southwest China and neighboring Asian countries. The BYD-Yunnan cooperation will follow three stages over the coming year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The Code notes that shutting down an engine during taxi-in operations can deliver reductions of 20 to 40% of the ground level fuel burn and CO 2 emissions, and 10 to 30% of ground emitted oxides of nitrogen (NO x ) emissions, depending on aircraft type and operator technique. Interim Departures Code of Practice.

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Baua Electric

MAY 6, 2024

For example, the newly built 128-acre Olympic and Paralympic Village , hailed by the organizers and advocacy groups as a shining example of universal design, offers accessible buildings, multisensory signage and zones for assistance dogs. And even that isn’t always enough, explained Ms.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2022

The funding is intended to support municipal and commercial fleets such as vehicle fleets, company cars, taxis, mobility and sharing services in an accelerated switch to alternative drives. Taxis and courier services in particular have an enormously high mileage of thousands of kilometers a year—especially in our inner cities.

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