Cluj-Napoca, the second largest city in Romania, just announced a plan to require all new Taxi Licenses to be for electric taxi’s. The plan does not affect the current taxi licenses in Cluj, but new Taxi licenses that are planned to be granted during 2020. Currently there are 2469 taxi…
Can electric cars be successful as a Taxi? Taxi’s seem to drive lots of miles a day, which would be many more than the 70-100ish mile range of typical electric cars. Where New York City has launched use of Nissan Leaf as taxi’s ahead of deploying the electric e-NV200 minivan,…
The California Energy Commission just announced $20 million in grants for clean transportation programs in California. The programs include manufacturing expansions at Tesla Motors and Zero Motorcycles, as well as a long-delayed project for an electric taxi system demonstration in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project is to be…
The NV200 is Nissan’s flexible multi-purpose vehicle, with the e-NV200 slated to be its zero emission electric model starting in 2017. Nissan’s e-NV200 electric “multi-usage vehicle” (a.k.a. commercial van) was unveiled today in Detroit at the North American International Auto Show. It is an all electric version of Nissan’s popular…
In the first time in over 110 years since electric taxi’s were last used in New York, Nissan and NYC are working together to develop the Taxi of the Future starting with a fleet of Nissan LEAF’s. Beginning in the Spring of 2012, New York City plans to deploy six…
