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Comment on Tesla scraps plans for low-cost car amid fierce competition from Chinese EVs, report says by John Hanna

CN EV Post

Just as there are LH drive and RH drive versions of each of Tesla's models, the plan contemplates production facilities that can generate either the steering-wheel-required mass market entry model, or the no-steering-wheel version for robo-taxi use. 8 what's coming sooner than thought even a few months ago.

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Symbio targets European taxi market with fuel cell range extender in Nissan e-NV200; 500 km range

Green Car Congress

Symbio has integrated a 15 kW (net) fuel cell range extender in a Nissan e-NV200 electric van, with plans to introduce the vehicle to the European taxi market. The customized e-NV200 offers taxi drivers a similar total cost of ownership to a hybrid taxi, but with the range of an internal combustion engine.

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Archer To Unveil Its “Midnight” E-VTOL Aircraft Next Month, 250 Air Taxis by 2025

CleanTechnica EVs

Even more importantly, the low cost of operation gives more people access to aviation, even in a limited way, which saves money and saves […]. I write quite a bit about unmanned electric aircraft, and the benefits (both for people and the environment) that they come with as they replace the mission of many manned aircraft.

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Fuel Cell Plug-in Hybrid Taxi Unveiled at London’s City Hall

Green Car Congress

Intelligent Energy, Lotus Engineering, LTI Vehicles and TRW Conekt, with funding from the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board, unveiled a full performance, zero-emissions Fuel Cell Hybrid London taxi. IE’s Fuel cell taxi system offers 58% efficiency. Earlier post.). Acceleration from 0-30 mph takes 4.5 Click to enlarge. .

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Bosch to Sell Low-Cost Sensors for Flying Cars

Cars That Think

Bosch expects the first flying taxi service to take off in a major city by 2023.

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Lumotive unveils LiDAR with LCM beam-steering technology for autonomous vehicles

Green Car Congress

Lumotive, a Bill Gates-funded startup developing LiDAR systems for autonomous vehicles, introduced a beam-steering technology which will significantly improve the performance, reliability and cost of LiDAR systems for the emerging self-driving car industry.

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KIST team develops membrane reactor system to produce pure H2 from ammonia with high productivity

Green Car Congress

The research team at KIST developed a low-cost membrane material and a catalyst for decomposition of ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen. Also, using the low-cost metal membrane, it was able to produce at least 99.99% pure hydrogen without any high-cost isolation process such as pressure swing adsorption (PSA).