From the Hyundai IONIQ 5 now being built in the US, to the CEO of Volvo Cars saying the best car he’s ever driven is an EV, to Chinese ride-hailing platform Didi bringing 200,000 electric cars to Mexico, we’ve got a lot of fun EV stories to highlight in this … [continued]
CATL and Didi Chuxing have entered into an agreement to make EVOGO battery swapping stations available to ride hailing drivers.
Waymo and Cruise have been growing incrementally, especially in San Francisco, where they’ve been given the opportunity to operate 24/7 across the city. However, there was a potential robotaxi story outside of the US recently that caught my attention more than any other. Let’s start with Waymo, though. After getting … [continued]
Lack of charging infrastructure can give a Tesla Uber driver the blues. By Adam Nelson, as told to David Waterworth For over 6 years, I have provided transportation services for Uber, Didi, Ola, and my own business, while accepting various other rideshare bookings. Last year, I purchased a Tesla Model … [continued]
Five years ago, in a blogging competition about “what will be the most important technological development over the next 10 years that will have the greatest impact in reducing climate change risks,” I concluded that the answer was robotaxis. If true robotaxis, broadly available and deployed in cities around the … [continued]
The 2020s will see the electric vehicle market explode in terms of sales, but it feels like last decade was the decade of electric vehicles. That’s when the foundation was laid, when the true breakthrough happened, when the automotive world was turned on its head by electric vehicles — and, … [continued]
Transportation network company (TNC) fleets, like Uber and Lyft in America, Didi in China, and Ola in India, may account for a relatively small share of the number of total automobiles on the road globally. But don’t let that fool you. Electrifying ridehailing has outsized potential to reduce emissions and catalyze electrification in other transportation sectors.
I cover self-driving vehicles and robotaxis quite frequently as part of this job. In fact, I think we were using the term “robotaxi” before I saw it used by any other media outlet, and certainly before it had become an industry norm.
Didi Chuxing (DiDi), a new mobility company focused on providing people with “app-based transportation and life services,” has just launched a robotaxi service.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, there’s a lot of news in the auto industry about autonomous vehicles. Here are 7 recent stories that couldn’t quite catch their own headline here on CleanTechnica but which seemed worth noting.
