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Baltimore's Yellow Taxis Going Green

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by walt, Apr 19, 2008.

  1. walt

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    City's Yellow taxis going green -- baltimoresun.com

    Since assuming the city's highest office, Mayor Sheila Dixon is usually driven around town in a bulky Ford Expedition, a bodyguard at the wheel. And yet there she was yesterday in the back of a taxi. A cost-cutting measure?

    Not quite. The cab was unusual, the first of its kind. It was a green-and-yellow Toyota Prius taxi, an environmentally friendly, fuel-efficient, gas-and-electric compact vehicle that is to be one of many such cabs on Baltimore's streets.
     
    #1 walt, Apr 19, 2008
  2. Rokeby

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    Walt,

    thanks for starting this thread. I saw the story on WJZ just before I went out
    the door to go to work this morning. I was planning to post the story when I
    got home -- just a few minutes ago.

    Ballamer fights plushin, hon. Whoda thunkit?
     
    #2 Rokeby, Apr 19, 2008
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    New York's Taxi fleet is also changing to all hybrids.

    In the past year, on several visits to the city, I have seen at least 2 Prius cabs, several Ford Escape Hybrids, and about 2 months ago a Nissan hybrid.
     
    #3 Norm611, Apr 21, 2008
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