Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her 70th year on the throne and UK-based automakers have special treats for the occasion. After McLaren unveiled a new paint and Jaguar Land Rover organized a 26-vehicle parade, it is LEVC’s turn to present their “gift”. The maker of the famous London taxi revealed a trio of electric TX […]
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Hyundai is ramping up marketing activities to promote its self-driving Ioniq 5 Robotaxi ahead of the vehicle transporting public passengers starting in 2023. For many taxi users the idea of being ferried around by a car with no driver is even more worrying than being driven by an actual person who could well be a […]
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Mexican company Vemo placed an order of 1,000 electric vehicles from BYD to expand its EV taxi fleet. The vehicle in question is the BYD D1, which was unveiled back in 2020 as an electric minivan exclusively designed for ride-hailing. According to BYD, the Mexican fleet of D1s will be the largest EV taxi fleet outside China. […]
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New Yorkers looking for taxi rides will soon be able to use the Uber app, in a first for the U.S. The San Francisco startup has reached a deal with the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission’s tech partners, Creative Mobile Technologies and Curb Mobile, to list the city’s yellow taxis on its app. […]
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Spy shot stories featuring autonomous shuttles are something new but we will definitely see more of them in the near future. Our photographers caught a camouflaged prototype of the Zeekr Robotaxi in Scandinavia, previewing the model that is going to be deployed in the US by Waymo for autonomous ride-hailing services. Zeekr’s R&D center is located in […]
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