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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

Green Car Congress

In 2016, TNCs were 15% of all intra-San Francisco vehicle trips, which is 12 times the number of taxi trips, while in New York in 2016, TNC ridership equaled that of yellow cab and doubled annually between 2014 and 2016. TNCs and taxis deadhead to look for fares or reposition before or after a paid trip. —Erhardt.

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

We could take an Oslo taxi and charge it in a bus terminal in Wenatchee, Washington or vice versa. If batteries are not surviving the life of the vehicle, I personally find that an obscene position to be in as we drive forward with our environmentally-focused revolution. John Holland: Yes. We’re doing the same thing around the world.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

Plug Me In

When I told a taxi driver in Marrakech that I was going there, he got angry and shouted: “No! To see nothing but desert for miles as a Dutch person? It’s legal to ride this train, it’s also free. It stopped a few kilometres before the entrance to the port to drop off passengers, taxis were already waiting.