News and Events ElectriCab Technologies Unveils 700-mile-per-day Electric Taxi Solution Sacramento, CA, USA (MMD Newswire)  December 31, 2009 -- ElectriCab Technologies is an award-winning California corporation with a clear mission: to deliver a sustainable, zero-emission solution to the taxi industry. The solution is based on full-sized vehicles, extended range batteries, rapid charging infrastructure, and dramatically reduced cost of ownership. To contrast with other recent headlines: -This is not a low-speed hyper-miling stunt, nor is it a month-long cross-country tour constrained by overnight charging and 2-3 hours per day on the freeway. -Nor is this a story about “convenient household outlets” posing as charging infrastructure for 40-mile Plug-in-Hybrid commuters. -It isn’t about street-legal golf carts, or electric “taxis” in name only that charge overnight, quit after a few miles and require never-ending flatbed assistance. -Nor is it about sophisticated battery swapping robots or unproven business models courting a tremendously difficult marketplace. This is a mainstream solution to electrify the taxi industry, seven years in the making, delivered by a company with a single focus. ElectriCab’s electrified conversion of a popular minivan has served as its development prototype since 2002, and has seen major upgrades to motor, controller, and of course, batteries. Capable of freeway speeds and laying 30 feet of rubber, the electric taxi provides a one-of-a-kind customer experience, powerfully packaged in a zero-emission platform. “We engineer our own battery packs,” states Robert Kittell, P.E., a licensed professional engineer and Chairman of ElectriCab. “Beginning at the cell level, our designs are optimized around safety, thermal management, life cycle costing and total daily range. These are the cornerstones of our solution for the taxi industry. Plus, our Design-for-Disassembly approach further enhances our environmental impact by promoting the re-use of key battery module components.” With 65kW-hrs of energy on board and an off-board rapid charger, the modified vehicle has been designed to deliver 700-800 miles in total daily range. Real world driving has achieved as much as 142 miles on a single charge, along with multiple rapid charge cycles per day. An ElectriCab driver has already logged 428 miles in one day during the worst December weather Northern California has to offer. The company will be scheduling a sanctioned event to officially demonstrate 700 miles in total daily range in early 2010. ElectriCab has continually validated its taxi solution in the marketplace, having placed its first full-sized electric taxi in service in 2003. Calibrated, inspected & insured, ElectriCab is able to offer the lowest rates in the city of Sacramento. “Our energy costs are 40% lower than a gasoline version of the same vehicle… and this includes battery pack replacement provisions. We are in a position to pass these savings on to the consumer.” As a gesture to community, ElectriCab will be providing free service to the Sacramento market through the Holiday season. ElectriCab’s plans for 2010 include construction of new production prototypes for an electric town car and foreign-market electric taxi, a Level 4 charging station (700 amps), and a high voltage version of their converted minivan. “We are very excited at our prospects of delivering these four initiatives, plus expanding our service into several key markets in 2010. 20-minute recharging is our next target, as is 1,000 miles total daily range.” 2010 New Year's Eve Demonstration & Free Electric Taxi Service, Hilton Hotel, Sacramento, CA Dec. 31, 2009 2009 Electric Taxi Airport Demonstration, Norman A. Mineta International Airport, San Jose, CA  Dec. 22, 2009   2009 ZEV Symposium Workshop, Cal/EPA Headquarters, Sept. 21-22, 2009 Electric Taxi Demonstration & Free Transportation 2009 Kitsap County, WA, Electric Taxi Demonstration, June 10, 2009 2004 EPA National Ombudsman Conference ElectriCab director Robert Kittell, P.E.,  delivered the following address as invited speaker and Small Business panel member: “Private Sector Environmental Stewardship and Economic Prosperity” (excerpt) “Our mission at the ElectriCab Company is to deliver world class fare-based urban transportation that is clearly distinguished by the use of zero-emission vehicles.  Our mission is to do so profitably as an on-going enterprise, and to incubate and dominate a new kind of transportation marketplace. “I am not here to applaud our polluters for not polluting as much this year as they did last, or to give credit-for-effort to demonstration programs or e-mail campaigns that will fade away and be forgotten.  I am not here to dream about technologies-of-tomorrow or bridges-to-the-future.  I am here to talk about impact, about clean air solutions for today, about zero emission transportation.  I am here to talk about environmental stewardship and economic prosperity.  I am here to talk turkey about financing, and processes to enable the true innovators of our society, small business, to deliver environmental solutions at a time and place where they are desperately needed." 2003 Pollution Preventions Award  ElectriCab is the proud recipient of the 2003 "Pollution Prevention Award" from the Sacramento County Business Environmental Resource Center (BERC).  Based on the company's "outstanding pollution prevention efforts," ElectriCab was honored by the following Federal, State, County and City organizations:  United States Senate, Senator Barbara Boxer  California State Assembly, Darrell Steinberg  California State Senate, Deborah Ortiz  Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, Illa Collin  Sacramento City Council, Mayor Heather Fargo  ElectriCab director, Robert Kittell, P.E., accepts 2003 PPA award  Home