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Study suggests high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected

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High emitters occur as a result of breakage, mal-maintenance (performance modifications, rechipping, and/or after-treatment removal), and at end of a vehicle’s useful life. Uncertainties are standard error of the means determined from the daily samples for the west LA data and by bootstrap resampling techniques for the SeaTac measurements.

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ABI Research forecasts 400M people to rely on robotic car sharing by 2030

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The new car sharing economy happens in three phases: street rental service, ride sharing taxi service, and robotic service. Why go through the expense of purchasing a car, and then regular insurance and maintenance fees, when we can all embrace the new car sharing economy?

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Study of In-use Vehicle Activity and Emissions in Tianjin, China Yields Fleet and Emissions Profiles, Policy Implications

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Despite the fact that China has made much progress in setting up standards regulating new vehicle emissions and fuel quality, the understanding of environmental performance of in-use vehicles has been rather poor. 13% of passenger cars and 35% of taxis were still using carburetors. million miles) per day. million miles) per day.

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India’s electric four-wheeler ride-hailing fleet incentives

Electric Vehicles India

The Telangana state is also establishing a benchmark for electric vehicles adoption for s personal, shared and commercial vehicle segments, not only this it is also focusing on the charging infrastructure and a local manufacturing unit to produce electric vehicles and their components. to €115, $13.8 to €230, $13.8

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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. There’s ease of operations, ease of maintenance benefits.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

Charged EVs

The NEVI program has very clear centrally-defined requirements for charging operators, like requiring open standards that are future-proof, and requiring certain levels of availability of the service.” Even in Dubai, for example, all the taxi companies need to be fully electric by 2027. Saudi Arabia is even building a factory for EVs.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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Since it can refuel from a standard household outlet and from a gasoline station, it needs no new infrastructure. A thinking person should ask, “How did the Leaf owner travel the unaccounted miles, the ones that were not e-miles?” If PHEVs became the major form of transportation, the use of fossil fuels would be cut dramatically.

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