New Prius Taxi in San Antonio, TX

According to the article, the gentelman that bought the Prius is an owner operator contractor, so he own the vehicle that he drives. In other words the taxi company employes people that own their own cars.

 

here in the greater Vancouver area including the north shore I'd estimate at least 30 Prius taxis. One in SA? where's the rest of them?

 

Many years ago at Lackland AFB,

pretty nice to see a young man that is responsible.

I'm a severly disabled veteran that is waiting for his 2006 Prius. No, I'm not unamerican. I've earned my disability pay the hard way. very hard. I want to be responsible and I don't want to pay these oil companies any more money. I've got better things to do with my $.

Thankyou, for this post. You are great. We have to cut off this oil money ASAP.

Gary in Minnesota.

 

A few weeks ago, I spotted a Prius taxi in Ljubljana, Slovenia, well after midnight.

Snagged a picture with my phone camera:
Prius Taxi in Ljubljana

It's bright yellow. The sign mounted on the roof must harm the aerodynamics in a major way

On another visit there, I spotted another Prius taxi at the Ljubljana airport. That one was also bright yellow, and has 'HIBRID' in huge letters on the rear bumper.

I checked for it on the web, and here it is:
Prius Taxi Ljubljana website

Their website allows you to call to be picked up specifically by the Prius, and you get a discount for web-based ordering.

Solar Hydro

 

Also i Norway we now have several Prius Taxis around Oslo and in other locations.

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A friend that visited Teneriffe, an island outside West Africa belonging to Spain, was met by a Prius Taxi as he got outside the terminal

 

I edited my posting on the Ljubljana Prius taxi, because, on closer inspection (of the roof-mounted taxi signs and the bumpers), I concluded that there must be more than one Prius taxi...

I added a picture.

Solar Hydro

 

I wonder how its holding up. Roads in the old Soviet Union are not known for being well maintained and in many cases are brick or stone. A friend of mine travels to Bulgaria every year and he told me that its unlikely my Prius would hold up well in the Balkin countries because of the poor state of road repair.

 

The roads in Ljubljana and to/from airport were MacAdam (as we say in my country), seemed to be of good quality and looked very well maintained, and Slovenia WAS NOT in the old Soviet Union.

Solar Hydro

 

Short geography lesson:
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and it was NEVER a part of the Soviet Union. It was part of former Jugoslavia though.
I bet 99% of Americans have no clue about it because it's a very small (but beatiful) country with nice people.
Even George W. Bush had a problem distinguishing betwwen Slovenia and Slovakia.

Cheers!

 

I'm away from Winnipeg on business until 1st week in Jan, but AFAIK a local cab co "Duffy's" has 7 Prius cars, and seem happy with them.

http://www.autonet.ca/News/Story.cfm?Story...152498-sun.html

I think they're ordering more too. True they'll take a big hit in city fuel economy at -40, but so does the Ford Crown Vic.

 

True, it was part of communist Yugoslavia.

 

The City of San Antonio just bougth 20 Prius to add to their fleet of Honda Civic Hybrids.

They use them for the code compliance officers to drive.

I just took delivery on a 2005 and I have a 2006 on the way next year in September.

I got white because of the Texas heat waves we have all the time.

I am seeing more on the roads in San Antonio everyday. It is just a good decision to get a hybrid when you drive over 100 miles a day.

 

the prius taxi in san antonio in is just one because as a owner operator in yellow /checker you can just own one cab only......the whole project was funded by myself with the company blessing...so far car has working great customer love it and thats what counts.... mileage varies from 47-51 mpg..the car has been online since 1 dec 05 and currently has 3900 miles

 

Welcome to Priuschat and thank you very much for your imput. We would love as many details as you have time and are willing to share on this.

 

not a problem greenMachine and thank you for for the welcome...i've been working on this for 6 month's my dream has finally come true....my old cab was a 05 dodge carvan....i was putting $190 a week in gas with my prius i'm now putting $60 dollors a week in gas that going to give me a saving of about $6800 per year
on my new cab which will pay for it self in a little over 3 years

 

Great! Wow, at this rate you will put on around 84,000 miles per year.

How many hours a day are you driving the car? Are you going to use a synthetic oil? Have you had any complaints about head room in the rear seat?

 

i drive 5 days a week 10-12 hours a day........no complaints yet had one guy 6'2 and he said had plenty of room