Téo Taxi electric cab fleet hits the streets of downtown Montreal

Fifty electric cabs hit the streets of downtown Montreal today as Téo Taxi, Montreal’s first e-taxi service, launched for a select group of customers.

The first group of 500 beta testers signed up for the app-based service before the taxis were even on the road.

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No one is more excited about the launch than the company’s founder Alexandre Taillefer.

“When I started working on this project, I heard from friends, investors, and the community, ‘You’re crazy. It will never work,'” said Taillefer, managing partner at XPND Capital and a former “dragon” from Radio-Canada’s version of the program Dragons’ Den.

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