Converting 200,000 NA taxis to hybrid Priuses would save $50B by 2016 in fuel

Posted Saturday, August 8th, 2009 by admin Filed under Blog

My latest column in Friday’s National Post (Aug 7): If all 200,000 taxis in North America were Prius cabs — or got the same fuel efficiency — the industry would save more than $50 billion in fuel between now and 2016 — that’s more than $US11,000 a year per taxi. See http://bit.ly/5iLrCQ for the full story.

Tags: cab, energy security, fuel efficiency, Prius, public policy, taxi

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One Response to “Converting 200,000 NA taxis to hybrid Priuses would save $50B by 2016 in fuel”

Josie Scurr

August 14, 2009 at 8:00 pm

But where does the electrical power come from to recharge all those hybrid vehicles? It makes financial and environmental sense that the largest number of hybrid taxis is in Victoria and Vancouver as BC has hydro-electricity. In other jurisdictions where power may be thermal-coal generated then the cost-analysis and emissions arguments may not wash.