Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

Uber and Hyundai Motor Company announced a new partnership to develop Uber Air Taxis for a future aerial ride share network and unveiled a new full-scale aircraft concept at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). —Eric Allison, head of Uber Elevate.

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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

JULY 5, 2012

New Energy Vehicle (NEV) Industry Development Plan (2011-2020), announced in June 2010, is targeting a domestic production capability of 1 million NEVs (with PEVs accounting for 50%) during the period of 2011 to 2015 and 5 million NEV unit sales by 2020. Recharging infrastructure and vehicle and technical standards are lacking.

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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. The battery has a more than 4,000 rated cycle life with the highest safety level in the industry.

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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

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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My Energi

MARCH 11, 2021

Firstly, I never entered this industry as an expert on cars and though I’ve learnt a lot along the way, I’m still far from an expert. I entered this industry because I wanted to make a difference, I wanted to be a successful woman, mum and do something positive to help the planet and people around me. Which Tesla model do you own?

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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.

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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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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

Similarly, in China, the sheer size of the auto industry and the country’s ambitious clean-energy goals suggest a potentially huge market for electric cars. In March, BYD chief executive officer Wang Chuanfu announced that in the first half of 2010 the company will sell only 100 e6 cars, to a taxi company in Shenzhen.

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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. The current trial is part of a program run by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). Average switch time 59.1

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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. billion in stimulus grants to the industry. In 2007, the administration announced a plan to replace the city’s 13,000 taxis with conventional hybrid cars by 2012. roads by 2015 and has provided $2.4

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2014

The aft main wheel is driven by a 6 kW electric motor, providing power for taxiing and acceleration up to 60 km/h during take-off, reducing overall electrical power consumption in day-to-day operation. New batteries with a higher energy density will be installed later on, which will increase the endurance to up to 1 hour + 15 minutes reserve.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 18, 2022

But some of the current EV models aren’t a good fit for owners who can’t wait around for hours for their batteries to charge, such as taxi drivers, delivery people, and ride-hailing services. Recharging a depleted battery takes less than 4 hours, Maluta says. One startup trying to solve this problem is ARC Ride , in Nairobi, Kenya.

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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. ABB will install two types of Terra chargers to meet the specific capacity requirements at the various BP locations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2018

The price of cobalt, a key element within an lithium-ion batteries (LiB) for stability, has nearly tripled over the past few years due to increased demand from the cell phone industry, a current materials shortage, and speculation for a future global shortage.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

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. Hyundai joined the LHP earlier this year. Earlier post.). Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle. This is especially true in air, sea, and some ground transportation as well as in industrial processes. Since some readers might read only one appendix, some information has been repeated.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 27, 2010

The firm known for its work in extending electric car recharging infrastructure, opened the station after joining in a partnership with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, and Nihon Kotsu, Tokyo’s largest taxi operator. Tokyo has more taxis than [.].

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Plug In India

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Earlier this year, Volkswagen announced a new electric car strategy through 2030, called ‘NEW AUTO’, with a focus on electric cars, ride-sharing, autonomy, and robo taxis. 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

Now, however, given all the market drivers facing the auto industry (regulations, fossil fuel availability, societal changes, etc.), Higher levels of regen allow the driver to slow the vehicle almost to a stop (with “B”), while recharging the battery. One is the five different levels of regenerative brake settings, described above.

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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. Some industrial sites are even set up with 440V 3 phase service. Not surprisingly, 80% is the target value that industrial users, like those that utilize electric fork lift trucks, use.

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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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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! ’ For centuries, travellers crossing the vast desert have come here to shelter and drink fresh water to recharge for the arduous journey. A new look that I call ‘industrial chic.’ ’ Exhausted? Absolutely.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

tech industry during the 1990s. They think BYD has a shot at becoming the worlds largest automaker, primarily by selling electric cars, as well as a leader in the fast-growing solar power industry. He is, after all, a man who shunned the booming U.S. "Too many new roads."

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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. Within a few years, BYD’s batteries were cheaper and just as reliable as those made by industry giants ony and Sanyo.

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