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Frost & Sullivan: carsharing membership to reach 9.8M in 2025; 19.9% CAGR

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Travel and expense management company Certify’s Q2 analysis on business expense trends found that Uber, the popular ridesharing service, continues to grow with business travelers, comprising 55% of ground transportation receipts compared with taxi services at 43%. In Q1, Uber had 46% of receipts compared with taxis at 53%.

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Barcelona: An E-Mobility Living Lab

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It is also one of the first European cities to regulate the use conditions for these types of vehicles , legalizing but restricting their use to improve user and public safety. As a very dense city, Barcelona is the ideal compact size for whizzing across on an electric scooter. Supporting Innovation. Barcelona: E-Mobility on the Rise.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

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Unfortunately, the taxi drivers weren’t so happy and they hit back.” There was no NEV legislation on the books that made it legal,” White said. “I John’s (Island) joined me in organizing a protest,” he remembered. “We That’s when we really started organizing people.” Some of my friends on (neighboring) St.

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TfL To Begin Testing of Intelligent Speed Adaptation Technology

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The unit can be disabled at the touch of a button, at which point it reverts to an advisory status where the current, legal speed limit is simply displayed as a driver aid. There is also a complete over-ride switch with disables the system entirely.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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The tokens, along with using smart contracts to reduce legal fees, would make real-time exchange and monetization feasible, he says. Alamouti began his engineering career as a part-time contract worker designing and building mobile-data protocols for taxi dispatch systems at Mobile Data International , in Vancouver. Wireless innovator.

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ATA files action against EU, calling ETS application to US airlines illegal

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The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry trade organization for the leading US airlines, brought action in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg, calling for the European Union application of an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to be dismissed and declared illegal.

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

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We could take an Oslo taxi and charge it in a bus terminal in Wenatchee, Washington or vice versa. And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits. In our Gothenburg and Oslo taxi projects, the chargers are at the taxi stands. John Holland: Yes.