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The Greening of the Yellow Fleet
What is Toyota's response?
So practically speaking, all taxis will have to be hybrid by 2012, and at currently 83% of the hybrids are Escapes.There are 13,150 taxi medallions on New York City streets, and 1,020 (or about 7.8 percent) are on hybrids. The first hybrids entered the fleet in October 2005. ...
By 2012, all of New York’s approximately 13,000 taxis will have to get at least 30 miles a gallon on the city’s streets. Because hybrids are about the only vehicles able to meet that target, most of the gas-only cabs in the city’s fleet are expected to disappear during the next five years.
There are 1,020 hybrid taxis roaming New York’s streets, about 7.8 percent of the fleet. Of those hybrids, 83 percent are Ford Escapes
What is Toyota's response?
Toyota said that the Prius taxis were holding up well, but that the company did not help to convert cars into taxis because they were not intended to be driven so heavily.
“Our engineers are nervous about it because they were not designed for commercial use,” said Wade Hoyt, a Toyota spokesman....