Taxi Operators

Ride-hailing services provider Ola has decided to shut down operations in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and will continue to focus on India business, its promoter ANI Technologies said today.

Delhi's transport department has been directed to ban app-based taxis "in accordance with the Supreme Court's orders" on Wednesday the city's Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on Wednesday. The Supreme Court asked the Delhi government to consider allowing only locally registered taxis to ply on the city's roads earlier this week.

New Delhi city authorities will start impounding the bike taxis of companies such as Uber and local rival Ola if they do not cease operations in line with a court order backing a ban on them, a senior government official told Reuters on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the High Court order by which it had essentially allowed bike-taxi aggregators Rapido and Uber to operate in the national capital by asking the Delhi government not to take any coercive action against them till a new policy was formulated. A vacation bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Rajesh Bindal granted liber...

11 drone operating and delivery companies were involved in tests and experimental flights throughout Israel last week.

Rapido has moved the Supreme Court challenging an order of the Bombay High Court directing the bike, taxi, and auto aggregator service to stop operations in Maharashtra as it did not have a license to operate bike, taxi, or rickshaw services. The apex court is set to hear the platform's plea on January 23.

A group of 100 American tourists who arrived at Mormugao Port in Goa could not proceed on a sight-seeing trip of the coastal state after irate taxi operators stopped them from boarding designated buses, following which police began a probe.

China has drafted rules to regulate the self-driving industry, and said that the country should adopt autonomous vehicles in passenger transport with care. The country's Ministry of Transportation said it will encourage the use of autonomous vehicles like taxis in easily controlled scenarios, such as low traffic areas, and has sought public advice ...

Tata Motors and BluSmart has signed an agreement on the World Environment Day, under which Tata has received an order for 10,000 XPRES-T EVs. The electric vehicles will be used by BluSmart for its expansion plan in Delhi & NCR and other metros.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it had shifted course on its approach to approving pilots of future electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) but does not expect it would delay certification or operational approvals.

VEMO, the new energy transport operator in Mexico, purchased 1000 units of D1 electric MPV from BYD Mexico, out of which 200 units have already been added to its fleet, and are operational.

The Toyota backed robotaxi service will operate 100 self driving vehicles in the Naasha district of Guangzhou and will later expand the service to other parts of the city.

A pop-up urban port for delivery drones -- and one day, potentially flying taxis -- launched Monday in Britain, lifting a box of prosecco for a brief celebratory test flight hailed as groundbreaking. Developed by UK firm Urban-Air Port, the port is named Air-One.

Pony.ai, a self-driving tech company has obtained a taxi licence in China to operate some of its driverless electric vehicles and charge fares. The company also won approval last year to run paid driverless taxi services in Beijing, China.

Bike taxi platform Rapido on Friday said it has raised $180 million (over Rs 1,370 crore) in a Series D round of funding led by new investor Swiggy

Ride-hailing services provider Ola has decided to shut down operations in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and will continue to focus on India business, its promoter ANI Technologies said today.

Delhi's transport department has been directed to ban app-based taxis "in accordance with the Supreme Court's orders" on Wednesday the city's Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on Wednesday. The Supreme Court asked the Delhi government to consider allowing only locally registered taxis to ply on the city's roads earlier this week.

New Delhi city authorities will start impounding the bike taxis of companies such as Uber and local rival Ola if they do not cease operations in line with a court order backing a ban on them, a senior government official told Reuters on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the High Court order by which it had essentially allowed bike-taxi aggregators Rapido and Uber to operate in the national capital by asking the Delhi government not to take any coercive action against them till a new policy was formulated. A vacation bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Rajesh Bindal granted liber...

11 drone operating and delivery companies were involved in tests and experimental flights throughout Israel last week.

Rapido has moved the Supreme Court challenging an order of the Bombay High Court directing the bike, taxi, and auto aggregator service to stop operations in Maharashtra as it did not have a license to operate bike, taxi, or rickshaw services. The apex court is set to hear the platform's plea on January 23.

A group of 100 American tourists who arrived at Mormugao Port in Goa could not proceed on a sight-seeing trip of the coastal state after irate taxi operators stopped them from boarding designated buses, following which police began a probe.

China has drafted rules to regulate the self-driving industry, and said that the country should adopt autonomous vehicles in passenger transport with care. The country's Ministry of Transportation said it will encourage the use of autonomous vehicles like taxis in easily controlled scenarios, such as low traffic areas, and has sought public advice ...

Tata Motors and BluSmart has signed an agreement on the World Environment Day, under which Tata has received an order for 10,000 XPRES-T EVs. The electric vehicles will be used by BluSmart for its expansion plan in Delhi & NCR and other metros.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it had shifted course on its approach to approving pilots of future electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) but does not expect it would delay certification or operational approvals.

VEMO, the new energy transport operator in Mexico, purchased 1000 units of D1 electric MPV from BYD Mexico, out of which 200 units have already been added to its fleet, and are operational.

The Toyota backed robotaxi service will operate 100 self driving vehicles in the Naasha district of Guangzhou and will later expand the service to other parts of the city.

A pop-up urban port for delivery drones -- and one day, potentially flying taxis -- launched Monday in Britain, lifting a box of prosecco for a brief celebratory test flight hailed as groundbreaking. Developed by UK firm Urban-Air Port, the port is named Air-One.

Pony.ai, a self-driving tech company has obtained a taxi licence in China to operate some of its driverless electric vehicles and charge fares. The company also won approval last year to run paid driverless taxi services in Beijing, China.

Bike taxi platform Rapido on Friday said it has raised $180 million (over Rs 1,370 crore) in a Series D round of funding led by new investor Swiggy