Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Zytek won the award for Most Economical & Environmentally Friendly Multi-Purpose electric vehicle with a 7-seat electric Mercedes Vito taxi ( earlier post ) in the first RAC Brighton to London Future Car Challenge. Its electric Mercedes Vito seven-seat taxi finished the 57-mile run with around 30% of its battery capacity to spare.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

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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Electric Vehicles India

JULY 12, 2021

Zypp Electric to launch its first electric cargo two-wheeler for last-mile delivery. The electric vehicle -based startup in last-mile delivery Zypp Electric has announced that it is all set to launch India’s first electric cargo two-wheeler for last-mile delivery. for last-mile deliveries.

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2023

More recently, other standards organizations have joined this effort, including the General Aviation Manufacturers Association and the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics. Established companies include Bell , the aerospace manufacturer, and Frequentis , an air-traffic-management service provider.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2019

ZeroAvia plans to start supplying its platform to commercial operators and aircraft manufacturers in 2022, initially targeting up to 500-mile regional flights in 10 to 20-seat fixed-wing aircraft. The solution aims to deliver the same performance as a conventional aircraft engine, and much lower operating costs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2021

Thirteen companies and one university have signed agreements with NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) project’s National Campaign to continue work towards integrating air taxis, cargo delivery aircraft and other new air vehicle concepts into the national airspace system. Joby Aviation’s all-electric prototype.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

million passengers annually in the Coachella Valley in California, has added its first all-electric buses, manufactured by BYD. The batteries can run for up to 155 miles of typical urban driving on the service routes with recharging requiring only four hours. SunLine Transit Agency, which serves more than 3.5 million riders.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

BYD is opening a new electric bus manufacturing facility in the Dalian Huayuankou Economic Zone to service the growing needs of northern China. BYD electric fleets have logged more than 175 million km (109 million miles) in revenue service). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Wisk Aero, an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) company, revealed the first self-flying, all-electric, four-passenger vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi. Range: 90 miles with reserves (~144 kilometers with reserves). Wisk’s 6 th Generation aircraft is designed with a price target of $3 per passenger, per mile.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2014

API certification marks an important step in the commercialization process and paves the way for use by motor oil manufacturers. Biosynthetic Technologies has been manufacturing limited quantities of the high oleic soybean-based synthetic oils at their plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. while conventional petroleum oils score between 4.0

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

Ford detailed seven of the 13 new global electrified vehicles it plans to introduce in the next five years, including hybrid versions of the iconic F-150 pickup and Mustang in the US, a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) Transit Custom van in Europe and a fully electric SUV with an expected range of at least 300 miles (483 km) for customers globally.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2016

Kreisel Electric, an Austrian developer and manufacturer of high-performance battery packs for electric mobility and stationary energy storage systems, is expanding its production capacity to 800,000 kWh per year with the construction of a new battery plant. from 120 to 267 miles. Kreisel has also swapped out VW’s 24.2

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2011

The project to deliver a fleet of the zero emission taxis to the streets of London in time for 2012 is on track, according to project fuel cell provider Intelligent Energy, with the first Fuel Cell Black Cabs covering a combined total of more than 8,000 miles in road and test track testing conditions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Electric Air Taxis/ Electric Vertical Take-off & Landing (eVTOL) - The future of electric air taxis, or electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL), is perhaps the most uncertain due to high regulatory barriers as well as technical. Battery Demand From Non-automotive EV Sectors in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2010

Accumulated fuel consumption over Cenex drive cycle for standard London taxi (TX2) and DuoDrive-equipped TX2 (blue line). a developer and manufacture of axial flux motors, hybrid drive trains and generator sets ( earlier post ), will demonstrate a plug-in hybrid version of the iconic London Black Cab featuring EVO’s DuoDrive system at the.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2012

The first batch of cars will become taxis in the Stavropol region in the near future. EL LADA is based on the LADA Kalina, and can accelerate to 130 km/h (81 mph), has a range of 150 km (93 miles), and can be charged from home outlets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2011

The GEM e2 two-passenger vehicle features six 12-volt flooded electrolyte batteries and a range of up to 35 miles on a charge. will acquire low-speed electric vehicle manufacturer Global Electric Motorcars LLC (GEM), a wholly-owned Fargo, N.D.-based To date, GEM cars have driven more than 450 million emission-free miles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Depending on velocity, altitude and load, a range of between 750 and 1500 kilometers (466 to 932 miles) is possible. Our goal is to use aircraft such as the HY4 as an Electric Air Taxi to connect destinations more flexibly and offer faster alternatives to existing routes and means of transport. —Josef Kallo.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2014

Additional funding of £50 million (US$84 million) will also be available for local areas to invest in cleaner taxis and buses. The government will invest £100 million (US$168 million) in research and development in ULEV, with the intention of the country emerging as a world leader in the development, design and manufacture of green vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

(Sit-down counterbalanced trucks are most commonly used in high-volume manufacturing and high-throughput warehousing and distribution operations. Currently, electric delivery trucks are limited to traveling about 80 miles per charge. Counterbalanced trucks serve general purpose and carry the heaviest loads.)

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Qnovo

MARCH 2, 2021

At a market capitalization exceeding $700 billion, Tesla enjoys a unique financial position among all auto manufacturers to expand its investments in electric vehicles and infrastructure. Most cells makers also provide the pack assembly, though some auto manufacturers, namely Tesla and the German auto makers, favor building their own packs.

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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). Hyundai is our first vehicle partner with experience of manufacturing passenger cars on a global scale.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The SAE Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) and Alignment Taskforce is working to ensure that electric vehicle wireless power transfer systems from diverse manufacturers will interoperate seamlessly with each other to prepare for commercialization in 2020. —Jesse Schneider. to be able to autonomously charge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

SAE International is working to ensure that electric vehicle wireless power transfer systems from diverse manufacturers will interoperate seamlessly with each other to prepare for commercialization in 2020. in 2021 to create a wireless charging infrastructure with alignment communications for autonomous vehicles (for example, taxi fleets).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The new model is designed, engineered and manufactured at LEVC’s plant in Ansty, Coventry—the UK’s only dedicated electric vehicle factory. As with ‘TX’ for taxi, the same technical and functional nomenclature strategy has been followed. LEVC’s manufacturing facility is a fully digitalized smart 4.0 With up to 5.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A new white paper published by the Argonne National Laboratory Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) outlines a clear set of battery requirements and research and development needs to accelerate the commercialization of electric propulsion for aviation—from air taxis in the near term to 737 class aircraft in the long term.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 23, 2021

With an increase in shared mobility such as metros, monorails, and BRT systems, last-mile connectivity has already acquired the importance of never before. For last-mile connectivity is three-wheelers which are more suitable. Bicycles and electric three-wheelers can fit this sector. 6 lakh three-wheelers sold in India.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The 2011 Transit Connect Electric will use a Force Drive electric powertrain manufactured and integrated by specialty upfitter Azure Dynamics. Ford also announced that the Ford Transit Connect Taxi will go into production and arrive in dealerships later this year as a 2011 model. Ford Transit Connect Taxi. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2020

Mahindra & Mahindra and REE Automotive signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore development and manufacturing of electric commercial vehicles for global markets. This will be coupled with Mahindra’s well-established vehicle design, engineering, sourcing capability and manufacturing assets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

1 ] The average daily driving distance in the USA is 30 miles (48 km), so PHEVLERs are vehicles with at least 60 miles (97 km) of electric range. The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. 3 ] PHEVLER - EAA-PHEV Wiki. [ MIT News 15 Jan 2015. [

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2024

This left an untapped market for smaller, fit-for-purpose electric vans and trucks that will be not only used for last mile delivery, but longer range transportation of goods. The platforms can be mounted with a pickup or van body, and even a passenger design for a taxi. The PV5 should be the first to be released.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

BPEI first estimated the energy required to manufacture silicon carbide vs. traditional silicon chips, and then evaluated EV energy consumption, using each type of chip, over a lifetime of use. The ESOI gain is even greater for fleet vehicles, such as taxis and delivery vans, with higher duty cycles and 500,000 estimated lifetime miles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The information gained from this project will contribute to the future plans of manufacturers and their partners to develop low carbon vehicles for the mass market. The vehicles will have a range of 80 to 100 miles on a full recharge and will be capable of recharging from domestic or commercial power supply.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2016

has a single-charge range of up to 135 km (84 miles). was selected as both Korea’s official government vehicle and Seoul EV taxi. is manufactured in RSM’s Busan plant. The only mid-sized EV in Korea, RSM SM3 Z.E. In 2015, SM3 Z.E.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Kia has revealed much more about its Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) strategy for providing modular vehicles for last-mile delivery and other uses, potentially around the globe. It kicks off with the Kia PV5, a versatile, van-like vehicle positioned for ride-hailing and last-mile delivery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

Nissan’s Barcelona plant is responsible not only for the manufacturing of the vehicle, but also the assembly of the new 40kWh battery packs, in a specialist facility. Nissan Barcelona Plant has been the global manufacturing location for the e-NV200 since 2014, which was the best-selling electric van in Europe last year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

Combining AI, Internet of Things (IoT) and other advanced technologies, the lab will create a human-centered smart manufacturing platform that will be validated through a small pilot EV production facility. The lab also will test a service using multiple modes of transport, as well as on-demand shuttle and last-mile mobility via e-scooter.

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