Official: Nissan wins bid to be next New York City taxi

Price ?

The NYC economic model is broken -- or corrupt, depending on your point of view. The fleet owners care about car purchase price, and leave the operators to foot the fuel bill.

 

Damn, Prius v would have been a better choice and it gets 40 MPG. $30k per car would be a realistic price also.

 

Bad news for USA.
One day, justice is done...the day after, environment/health fell behind costs.
And when referred to running costs, OMG.

ICE conventional powertrains should be banned from urban taxi service at this stage, and not turning mandatory!!...

Sad

[edit: a friend of mine told me there is a chance of some being electric, but I really don't believe]

 

I kinda aesthetically liked Karsan more

 

Yea, I read that it'll go full electric in 2017. Testing to begin in 2012.

I just don't see EV Taxi happening. Recharging time means loss income. If the battery can be swapped, then it will be a better solution.

 

Is this the ONLY taxi to be allowed in New York?

If so, I'm never a fan of restricting a market to one vehicle. They do it in London with the dreadful London Taxi. Much better to allow the market to choose.

Also, the new Nissan New Yorker looks surprisingly like the Peugeot E7 Taxi that has been available in the UK for years. In fact an electric version has been out for about 3 years but at £40k/$66k there haven't been many takers.

E7 electric taxi to debut at British International Motor Show — Autoblog Green

 

Hmm. In the center of the capitalist economy, the taxi service is subject to central planning and purchasing. I wonder how they handle it in Moscow...

 

Grumpy, Yes that design will be the only car for yellow taxis. In NYC there are taxi cabs which are for the most part flagged down for fares or wait in taxi waiting areas, think airports, for fares. NYC also has livery cars, or "car service" which are "for hire" car services. A customer would call a base and request a car to take them from point A to point B. Customers could also call teh base to arrange pickup at another time, i.e take me to the airport tomorrow morning. The livery cars will not be limited to this car model. Hope that helped. Ryan

 

Sounds just like London. The iconic London Taxi for sitting on ranks and hailing in the street and the 'mini cab' (which is pretty much any suitable sized vehicle) private hire service booked via telephone, internet, hotels etc. I'm one of the latter with my Prius though based 200 miles north of London.

 

If we're ever 200 miles north from London we'll hire you. My kids would LOVE being in a Prius taxi.

 

oops. Yes they seem to be restricting taxis to one choice as they are replaced.