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Boston's Taxi Fleet to Go Hybrid by 2015. BGlobe, August 29, 2008. “All Boston taxis will be required to be hybrids by the year 2015, the mayor and police commissioner announced on Friday. Mayor Thomas Menino said in a statement that requiring taxis to go hybrid will be ‘an essential step’ in improving air quality.Marckinson Charles, president of the Independent Taxi Operators Association, said, We're not ready for this... If by 2015, we all have to have hybrids, we have a problem’...The mayor's office said the new standards that would go into effect in January would require, among other things, that every cab be equipped for credit card payments, and would ban non-essential cellphone use by drivers.”