Baua Electric

MARCH 15, 2024

The Zoox vehicles will also drive in light rain and at night, the company said, critical for gathering additional data. Amazon’s self-driving car unit, Zoox, is seeking to stay abreast of rival Waymo by expanding its vehicles’ testing in California and Nevada to include a wider area, higher speeds and nighttime driving.

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Electric Auto Association

JUNE 1, 2021

Like nearly everyone else with an electric vehicle (EV) on Saint Thomas, Doug White, co-founder of Virgin Islands Electric Vehicle Association , drives a Nissan LEAF. I was at a trade fair and I saw this little neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV). It was a Polaris GEM , it ran at 25 miles per hour (mph).

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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). Both parties are collaborating on infrastructure concepts to support take-off and landing for this new class of vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

A box-type vehicle will operate at 20 km/h (12 mph) on the track to generate electricity using the forces of air resistance and the speed of the train. On commercial rail tracks, lift motors will be used at multiple places to move the train up slopes to gain potential energy using the same principal as a roller coaster.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Renault Samsung Motors (RSM) is loaning ten SM3 Z.E. earlier post ) sedans to Seoul City for free so that members of the Seoul Taxi Association and their passengers can discover the benefits of using an electric vehicle for taxi work. Free use of the cars is just part of the campaign, which runs until April 2015.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 22, 2021

seconds to reach 0-60 MPH. It’s the first time all- electric vehicles have been added to the fleet since Waymo’s custom-designed EVs were phased out to make space for the Pacificas. The Cruise which is owned by General Motors has stated that it will begin accepting passengers soon. It takes only 4.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

Zero-emission car sharing service BeeZero, run by a newly founded subsidiary of The Linde Group, will feature 50 Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell electric vehicles for public use. In December 2015, Hyundai delivered five ix35 Fuel Cell vehicles to the Paris-based electric taxi start-up STEP (Société du Taxi Electrique Parisien).

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Teslarati

APRIL 8, 2023

General Motors’ (GM) self-driving taxi unit, Cruise, has “recalled” its fleet of vehicles following a viral crash with a bus earlier this week. For GM, that comes in the form of its level 3 autonomous taxis serving the San Francisco area under the brand name Cruise.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2010

The electric Milano Taxi concept. Volkswagen unveiled the Milano Taxi, an electric MPV concept tailored to the needs of taxi drivers and their passengers. Volkswagen has announced that it will launch its first production electric vehicles in 2013. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

The ix35 Fuel Cell is Hyundai’s fourth-generation fuel cell vehicle, and its first to enter production. The LHNE project, a government-backed initiative co-funded by the Technology Strategy Board, will put hydrogen-fueled vehicles into daily business use and deliver the refueling infrastructure to support their operation.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 16, 2024

CES 2024 was no different with several concept and new vehicle reveals, and technological advancements that will be part of new cars in the coming years. Remote controlled valet parking allows drivers to leave their vehicle at a defined drop off point. The O Series, pronounced ‘zero,’ are all-electric vehicles launching in 2026.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Ford Motor Company is unveiling the all-electric version of the Ford Transit Connect at the Chicago Auto Show; the small electric van will be in fleet operators’ hands later this year, according to the company. The vehicle is powered by a liquid-cooled 28 kWh lithium-ion battery pack from Johnson Controls-Saft. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2009

Korea-based Leo Motors , Inc. earlier post ) has completed testing of an electric vehicle (EV) conversion solution on Kia’s “Morning” car model. The converted Kia achieved speeds of 100 mph and a range of 150 miles on a single charge, going from zero to sixty mph in six seconds.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2013

Hyundai Motor Company has joined the London Hydrogen Partnership (LHP). The LHP has initiated more than £50 million (US$76 million) worth of hydrogen projects, attracting and rolling-out new hydrogen buses, taxis, scooters, refueling stations, materials handling vehicles and fuel cell Combined Heat and Power units to London.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It is my aim that London’s minicabs and taxis will be zero-emission by 2020, which will have a major impact on air quality. Encouraging many more electric vehicles is a key part of this transformation, so it is great news that greentomatocars has committed to operating 50 of these super clean machines from next year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2010

Oerlikon Graziano is highlighting its and Vocis Driveline Control’s (in which Oerlikon Graziano holds a majority share) development of the gearbox for the battery electric e-Vito Taxi ( earlier post ). The gearbox ratio was developed to permit a maxim vehicle speed of 120 km/h (75 mph) at a maximum motor speed of 8,000 rpm.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mass transit and a surplus of taxi services also help to mitigate drunk driving after the sun goes down. But that doesn’t seem sufficient to account for the overall differences, especially considering how many dents you tend to see on vehicles parked in NYC vs. Los Angeles. As with any study, there are some highly probable blind spots.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

The e-Golf (“Das e-Auto” earlier post ), the Volkswagen brand’s second series production battery-electric vehicle after the e-up!, The e-Golf is currently on sale in Germany, and will be launched late this year or early next year in the US, initially in the ZEV (zero emission vehicle regulation) states (i.e., The e-Golf.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2013

EADS has also engineered together with Diamond Aircraft and Siemens an updated series hybrid electric motor glider, the Diamond Aircraft DA36 E-Star 2. E-Fan propulsion is provided by two electric motors with a combined power of 60 kW, each driving a ducted, variable pitch fan.

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Charged EVs

JULY 19, 2023

While the production vehicle isn’t as striking as the Electric Streamliner concept first shown in January 2022, the arched window line and dropped tail of the Ioniq 6 still turn plenty of heads. Ioniq 6 is a new entry in a battery-electric sedan category that’s essentially been dominated by one vehicle: the Tesla Model 3.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2009

At the Geneva Motor Show, Ford introduced a new concept Ford Tourneo Connect equipped with a conceptual but fully operational Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) powertrain developed in collaboration with Smith Electric Vehicles. Earlier post.) Smith is also working with Ford on a US BEV version of the Transit. Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Wearing a black jacket, she could be a cop, alerted by nosy neighbors to the funny-looking vehicle tearing around the suburban streets. She certainly is staring at us intensely as we pilot the bright-white three-wheeled craft down the street, gingerly depressing the brake pedal to make sure were under the 30-mph speed limit.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

At the Frankfurt Motor Show, Renault unveiled four Lithium-ion battery electric concept vehicles that provide a preview of Renault’s range of production electric vehicles to be released from 2011 on: Twizy ZE Concept (city car); Zoe ZE Concept (compact car); Fluence ZE Concept (5 passenger sedan); and Kangoo ZE Concept (electric van).

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Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

The result of those efforts is the HX-1, Doroni’s flagship “flying car,” better known as an electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicle. For instance, Doroni designed the H1-X as a two-seat personal aircraft rather than the larger cabins designed for air taxi services many other companies are working on.

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