{"id":2306,"date":"2021-06-25T01:42:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T01:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2021-06-25T01:42:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T01:42:33","slug":"electric-taxis-no-vote-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/electric-taxis-no-vote-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Taxis. No Vote in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? New York City\u2019s Taxi and Limousine Commission voted to block the issuance of new for-hire vehicle licenses for electric vehicles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? EVs are currently exempted from existing caps in NYC rules. This vote knocks that exemption out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? The board members took aim at Revel, for wanting to disrupt, the industry. A board member said, &#8221; \u201cThis is one of the moments for which the cap was created \u2014 to provide a check and balance for businesses whose strategy is to disrupt the system, adding to congestion and putting profits and growth before the City\u2019s welfare,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/6\/23\/22546955\/nyc-tlc-electric-vehicle-license-taxi-vote-revel-tesla\">The Verge | New York City votes to block new licenses for electric taxis, snubbing Revel\u2019s Tesla plans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? New York City\u2019s Taxi and Limousine Commission voted to block the issuance of new for-hire vehicle licenses for electric vehicles Why is this important? EVs are currently exempted from existing caps in NYC rules. This vote knocks that exemption out. How will this be important? The board members took aim at Revel, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}