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New Technology Can Reduce Toxic Emissions In UK’s London Cabs

Published

6 years ago

March 5, 2020

16 percent of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in central London are caused by taxis. They are also responsible for 26 percent of the particulate matter in central London’s air. Both emissions come with a bevy of hazards to human and environmental health. However, a German company called HJS has developed a solution: a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) system that can be retrofitted to old taxis. If the system works as advertised, taxi engines will not only be cleaner, but they will last longer and reduce costs.

SCR Does Not Affect Performance

According to HJS, the system that they hope to install in London cabs does not impact their performance or engine control unit. It works independently from the engine to remove nitrogen oxides and other contaminants from the exhaust. HJS estimates that SCR will reduce NOx by 75 percent compared to Euro 5 diesel taxis. This means that, by adopting an SCR system, Euro 5 taxis can become Euro 6.

Euro 5 Versus Euro 6

There are approximately 4,400 cabs in London with Euro 5 certification. Euro 5 denotes a vehicle whose engine emissions are higher than ideal – 0.18 g/km of NOx to be exact (for diesel). In comparing cars by their eco-friendliness, those that are certified Euro 6 win by a landslide. Euro 6 vehicles with diesel engines must emit no more than 0.08 g/km of NOx. If all outdated taxis were to adopt SCR, the entire fleet of London cabs would operate at an acceptable emissions level. For this to happen, the technology would likely need government approval.

Lifespan Extension On London Taxis

London law states that, starting in 2022, Euro 5 taxis will be forced to retire after 12 years of operation. This is where the Euro 6 advantage for taxi companies and drivers is most palpable. Cabs that have Euro 6 certification can drive for 15 years before retirement. That’s three extra years. A lot of fares can be collected in three years, and a lot of money can be saved on taxis if the old ones can be replaced every 15 years instead of every 12. SCR is, therefore, a cost-effective technology that should benefit the drivers themselves. Hidden costs, of course, may remain.

If SCR is approved and implemented, it could signal the end of energy-inefficient taxis – not only in London, but the world over. Electric power will claim whatever vehicles SCR misses. Diesel cabs are just another casualty in the war for sustainability.

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My Main AI Turns Complex Workflows into Simple, Voice-Driven Conversations

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1 week ago

February 9, 2026

Jonathan Grilli

Photo Courtesy of My Main AI Inc.

By: Chelsie Carvajal

Managing modern workflows often means juggling dashboards, documents, and long email threads before a single task is complete. My Main AI Inc, an AI technology platform that spans text, image, voice, and video, has built a system where many of those steps can be handled through spoken or written prompts instead of manual clicks.

Turning Tasks Into Conversations

My Main AI groups several automation tools around a voice and chat layer so users can move through work by giving instructions rather than configuring each step. The platform lists AI Web Chat, AI Realtime Voice Chat, AI Speech‑to‑Text Pro, and AI Text‑to‑Speech engines from providers such as Lemonfox, Speechify, and IBM Watson, creating a loop between spoken input and generated output.

Speech‑to‑text tools support accurate transcription of audio content in multiple languages, with options to translate those recordings into English. That capability gives businesses a way to record meetings, calls, or field conversations, then convert the results into text that can be summarized, edited, and turned into documents or scripts. Text‑to‑speech tools, including multi‑voice synthesis with up to 20 voices and SSML controls, take written content in the other direction, producing voiceovers for training, marketing, and support material.

Chat assistants extend the same pattern to files and websites. My Main AI lists AI Chat PDF, AI Chat CSV, and AI Web Chat, which allow users to ask questions of documents or site content through natural language prompts. Instead of sorting through long reports, a user can query a file, receive concise answers, and then send follow‑up requests to generate emails, briefs, or summaries in the same environment.

From Content Pipelines to Voice‑Led Workflows

The company reports that its platform connects to more than 100 models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI, Amazon Bedrock and Nova, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Flux, Nano Banana, Google Veo, and Stable Diffusion 3.5 Flash. Public materials state that these models support text, image, voice, and video generation in more than 53 languages, giving the voice‑driven tools reach across several regions and markets.

Content creation sits at the center of many of these workflows. My Main AI offers modules for blog posts, email campaigns, ad copy, social captions, video scripts, and structured frameworks such as AIDA, PAS, BAB, and PPPP. A user can dictate key points or paste a brief into the chat, receive draft text, ask the assistant to adjust tone or length, and then pass the result into voice synthesis to create a narrated version.

Visual tools fit into the same flow. DALL·E 3 HD, Stable Image Ultra, and an AI Photo Studio support image creation, product mock‑ups, background changes, and multiple variations from a single upload. AI Image to Video and text‑to‑video connections with engines such as Sora and Google Veo, alongside an AI Avatar feature labeled “coming soon,” make it possible to turn a spoken or typed brief into images, then into short clips that accompany the newly generated audio.

Why Businesses See Conversation as Infrastructure

Company data shared with partners cites more than 77,000 customers worldwide, annual revenue near 3 million dollars, and monthly revenue growth around 250,000 dollars, driven largely by subscription sales. The 49‑dollar plan is described as the best‑selling tier, with My Main AI presenting it as the entry point to the broader suite of conversational and automation tools.

Business‑oriented features show how these voice‑driven workflows connect to operations. The platform lists payment gateways such as AWDpay and Coinremitter, integrations with Stripe, Xero, HubSpot, and Mailchimp, and tools for SEO, finance analytics, dynamic pricing, wallet systems, and referrals. A manager can ask a chat assistant to pull figures, draft a report, and prepare customer messages, then move directly into sending campaigns or reviewing payments through linked services.

Company communications describe ongoing work on proprietary models, expanded training flows from text, PDFs, and URLs, and deeper tools for chat, analytics, and video. That roadmap suggests that My Main AI views conversation—spoken or typed—as a central control surface for complex workflows, with automation stepping in behind the scenes so users can focus on clear instructions rather than manual configuration.