Arlington officials warn against all-electric taxi fleet

Published November 2, 2012 4:00am ET



Arlington officials are warning that the county should not become home to the nation’s first all-electric fleet of taxi cabs and called on the County Board to reject the upstart cab company.

The technologies behind electric cars have not advanced far enough to guarantee that the electric cabs will always make it to their final destinations without stranding passengers because the cabs’ batteries died, the Arlington Transportation Committee concluded.

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