I was walking down the street in Queens last week and saw something that I thought I would never see again: A brand new Fisker Ocean. Paper rear plate, no inspection or registration sticker ever attached, fresh from inventory. This isn’t the first Ocean that I have seen on the … [continued]
Spiro operates the largest battery swapping infrastructure network for electric motorcycles in Africa, and now has a presence in 8 countries. Motorcycles are a really big deal in a lot of African countries, with most of them deployed as taxis. Close to 30 million motorcycles on the continent are used … [continued]
“M’Bay” means to cultivate in Wolof, the main language in Senegal. The aptly named “Mbay Mobility” wants to help cultivate and grow the green mobility sector in West Africa, starting in Dakar Senegal. Mbay wants to play a key role in the transition to electric mobility by being the first … [continued]
The Green Cab taxi company in Madison, Wisconsin, announced today that it is converting its fleet of taxis to electric vehicles. When complete, the move will make Green Cab the first in the nation to operate a fleet of fully electric taxis.
BYD will be expanding its EV leasing deal with the London-based private-car service Thriev, according to recent reports. The Chinese car manufacturer will now be delivering a further 200 of its e6 electric cars to Thriev by April 2015. The agreement marks what is now the largest overseas rental agreement … [continued]
Indeed, I may very well have OCD. Rather than pick 10 like any normal blogger, I went ahead and picked 100 top EV stories for this end-of-year wrap up. And these follow the 33 I highlighted at the end of May. Incidentally, I didn’t aim for 100 but just happened … [continued]
One of the cool cleantech programs I found out about on my trip last week to Ukraine* was an electric vehicle (EV) taxi program that is supposed to start there very soon. It seems that a few final bureaucratic details need to be confirmed, but once they are, 200 EV taxis … [continued]
China car maker BYD is set to provide 46 of its e6 electric vehicles (EVs) to Bogotá, Colombia’s taxi fleet, making it the first South American all-EV fleet. according to Green Autoblog. Meanwhile, three other e6 EVs will go to the Bogotá Technology, Science and Innovation administration, as all 49 cars … [continued]
Electric vehicles may not be all over the place yet, but a new taxi company in the DC area is looking to help change that. Chris DeMorro of Gas2 writes: “a new millennium calls for new answers to transportation, and a Virginia taxi company wants to be on the cutting edge. … [continued]
