electric taxi Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:18:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Nissan NV200 Electric Taxi for London Cabbies by 2015 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nissan-nv200-electric-taxi-london-cabbies-2015-20140111/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nissan-nv200-electric-taxi-london-cabbies-2015-20140111/#respond Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:08:36 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45086 Cleaning up the streets of London will be much easier, now that Nissan has designed a new electric taxi that appeals to Britons. The iconic Checker Taxi, which produced a distinctive checkerboard taxicabs from about the turn of the century to 1982, or Yellow Cab, which is almost universally-known and used, signifies “Taxi” to Americans […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nissan-nv200-electric-taxi-london-cabbies-2015-20140111/feed/ 0 45086 Has the Tesla Model S Got What it Takes to be a Taxi? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/has-the-tesla-model-s-got-what-it-takes-to-be-a-taxi-20130430/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/has-the-tesla-model-s-got-what-it-takes-to-be-a-taxi-20130430/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:14:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=36760 With maintenance and refueling costs on the rise, electric vehicles could make sense as taxis, but the limited range of most puts them out of the running. Tesla Model S, on the other hand, could be the perfect replacement taxi. Part of the problem with electric vehicle [EV] range when used as a taxi is […]

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