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0Ford Transit Connect CNG taxis starting to swing into action across U.S. 1315659720
The next time you hail a cab in Los Angeles, CA you could be jumping into the back seat of a vehicle that's fueled by clean-burning compressed natural gas (CNG). That's because California Yellow Cab of Orange County has become the state's first taxi company to put CNG-fueled Ford Transit Connect ...
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Ford Transit Connect CNG taxis headed to LA, Chicago, Las Vegas and St. Louis 1308611040
Ford Transit Connect compressed natural gas taxi – Click above for high-res image galleryThe next time you hail a cab in Chicago, IL or Los Angeles, CA you could be jumping into the back seat of a vehicle that's fueled by compressed natural gas (CNG). That's because in Chicago, Taxi ...
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Supreme Court strikes down Bloomberg's hybrid taxi plan for NYC 1299417660
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has fought long and hard to uphold a local law requiring all city cab companies to replace their gas-guzzling Ford Crown Victoria sedans with more efficient livery vehicles. A noble goal, no doubt, but the Supreme Court is having none of it. The New York Post ...
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Turkish taxi of tomorrow design beats Nissan, Ford proposals among New Yorkers [w/video] 1297797600
Karsan V1 New York City Taxi – Click above for high-res image galleryThe people of New York City have spoken, and they've found the taxi designs from both Ford and Nissan lacking. You may remember that the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission recently set about polling residents ... -
Volkswagen crafts a London Black Taxi for the future 1292504460
Volkswagen London Taxi Concept – Click above for high-res image galleryVolkswagen is putting it's own unique spin on a London icon. The VW London Taxi Concept, which is built upon the Up! city car platform, is an electric cab with an estimated range of 186 miles. Though the overall length ... -
Report: Nissan Leaf to taxi into Mexico in mid-2011 1291312860
2011 Nissan Leaf – Click above for high-res image galleryBack in November of 2009, Nissan announced that its battery-powered Leaf would head south of the border, landing in Mexico City in 2011, a year or so ahead of its scheduled global launch. The deal laid out plans to have the Mexican ... -
San Francisco's green taxi fleet and how it got there 1288026000
San Francisco is leading the way in reducing taxi greenhouse gas emissions, and part of the movement was spearheaded not by a politician, but by a taxi driver. Thirteen years ago, Paul Gillespie was the first cabbie to occupy the seat allocated to a driver in the newly formed 7-person San ...
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Go Green Eco Taxi transports passengers in "chic electric style" 1284328140
Go Green Eco TaxiPlug In America member Sara Bissig and her husband Jimmy operate Go Green Eco Taxi, located in the Woodlands community north of Houston, TX. Go Green Eco Taxi is quite different from your-run-of-the-mill taxi service because the company delivers passengers to-and-fro in ... -
Surprise! New York cabbies prefer Crown Vics to hybrids 1280444340
If it weren't for the somewhat obsessive and frankly narrow-minded love by taxi drivers and police officers for the body-on-frame Ford Crown Victoria, we'd imagine the old Panther platform would have been put out to pasture a very long time ago. As it stands, though, New York cabbies especially ...
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Volkswagen unveils electric Milano Taxi concept 1271686740
Volkswagen Milano Taxi concept – Click above for high-res image galleryVolkswagen is unveiling a new compact battery-powered taxi concept called the Milano at the Hanover Trade Show in Germany this week. The styling draws heavily on the Space Up! Blue concept that debuted at the 2007 LA ...
