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Will Baidu Apollo Go Be The 1st Profitable Robotaxi Service?

July 20, 2024 admin apollo go, autonomous vehicles, baidu, China, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, robotaxis, Taxis, wuhan

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:22:23 +0000

In the USA, naturally, most discussion of robotaxis centers around Waymo, Cruise, and Tesla. And perhaps increasingly Zoox. However, on the other side of the world, there’s a different robotaxi service making a lot of progress and getting a lot of attention. That would be Baidu Apollo Go. For those … [continued]

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No More Fossil-Powered Taxis In Hamburg Soon

February 21, 2023 admin cars, clean transport, electric cars, electric taxis, Electric vehicles, GERMANY, Hamburg, Taxis

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 14:31:06 +0000

A handful of years ago, countries were climbing over each other to announce the year they’d stop selling fossil-powered cars. Things have been quiet on that level in recent years, even as EV market share has surged across the world, but the big first steps on that topic are really conducted by other jurisdictions — […]

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First Minibus Electric Taxis Are Coming To South Africa

July 6, 2022 admin clean transport, electric buses, electric taxis, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit, South Africa, Taxis

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 16:05:05 +0000

In most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, private operators of small buses usually carrying between 16 to 25 passengers and in some cases, up to 35 passengers, are the main commuter transport providers. These minibuses usually run on informal schedules, and sometimes, their routes are also not fixed. These ubiquitous privately-owned minibus taxis in sub-Saharan Africa […]

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First Electric Minibus Taxis Coming To South Africa

July 6, 2022 admin clean transport, electric buses, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit, South Africa, Taxis

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 16:05:05 +0000

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Sony Electric Car … Australian Fire Insanity … Zombie Solar Energy Storage System — CleanTechnica Top 20

January 14, 2020 admin batteries, cars, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica top 20, Coal, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev sales, Fossil Fuels, hybrid electric cars, lithium-ion batteries, market research, natural gas, Oil, phev, police, policy & politics, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar power plants, Taxis, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model y, top cleantech news, US, us solar, us solar energy, Volkswagen, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:00:24 +0000

The biggest, hottest, most enticing CleanTechnica stories last week were led by Sony unveiling an electric car, the impossible-to-comprehend scale of this month’s Australian wildfires, and a solar energy storage device from the 1980s that has come back to life. You may have noticed something unusual by now — there wasn’t a single Tesla story in the top 3! That’s the first time in a long time, and ironic considering that Tesla stock [TSLA] went bonkers last week (and is still going bonkers)

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Current Taxi (Get It? Current As In Electrical Current) Is Hiring In Canada

January 13, 2020 admin autonomous vehicles, Canada, cars, clean transport, consumer technology, current taxi, electric cars, electric taxis, Electric vehicles, kelowna, Taxis, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model s, tesla model x, tesla taxis, victoria

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 01:33:43 +0000

There is a taxi company in Canada called Current Taxi. It has an all-electric fleet, or should we say, an all-Tesla fleet. The company is now hiring drivers. One of the perks, of course, is that you get to drive a Tesla. Current Taxi’s goals is to change the way of the taxi industry one ride at a time

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Las Vegas Taxi Company Orders Hundreds Of Teslas

January 6, 2020 admin autonomous vehicles, cars, clean transport, consumer technology, electric cars, electric taxis, Electric vehicles, green economy, kaptyn, LAS VEGAS, mccarran international airport, nevada, Taxis, tesla model 3, tesla model 3 taxis, tesla taxis

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 03:34:03 +0000

Kaptyn, a Transportations as a Service (TaaS) technology company in Las Vegas, today launched 30 Teslas in its on-demand transportation (i.e., taxi) service in Vegas. Initially, I thought, “That’s a big order. We should probably cover that.” As I jumped into the story, though, I saw it was about much more than 30 Teslas

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The Future Is Now In Indonesia As BYD Lands Order For 200 Electric Taxis For Jakarta & Bali

December 10, 2019 admin air quality, Bali, blue bird, byd, cars, clean transport, electric cars, electric vans, Electric vehicles, ev charging, indonesia, Jakarta, kupang, liu xueliang, mass transit / public transit, Taxis

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:13:20 +0000

BYD is electrifying Bali and Jakarta with a new order for a fleet of 200 of BYD’s fully electric T3 vans from the operator of the largest taxi network in Indonesia, PT Blue Bird Tbk. The new order is the largest order for fully electric taxis in history in Indonesia and also sets a new record for BYD for its electric vans outside of China