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Media Watch:
The Silent Vroom
Forbes
April 9, 2010
--Technology for electric cars has existed longer than gas-powered counterparts. Between steam and gasoline at the start of the twentieth century, electric transport was in vogue. Widespread availability of electricity from 1912, smooth ride and easy maintenance and operation contributed to the electric vehicle's popularity.
Bannon Automotive
Constructs $30 Million Electric Car Plant in New York
Fabricating & Metalworking
April 8, 2010
--Bannon Automotive, LLC, in a joint venture with REVA Electric Car Company, is moving forward in constructing a $30 million electric-car manufacturing plant in Clay, NY. Bannon received a state package of grants and tax incentives worth close to $7 million to build the plant, which will churn out electric plug-in hatchbacks.
UPS Deploys 200 Hybrid
Electric Vehicles
Business Fleet
April 8, 2010
--UPS announced Tuesday that its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles had expanded with the deployment of 200 hybrid-electric delivery trucks in eight U.S. cities.
Want Electric Cars en Masse?
Rethink Warranties
Business Week
April 8, 2010
--For an electric vehicle owner and a utility, a dream scenario for charging vehicles at the lowest possible cost might go something like this: EV batteries draw juice from the grid when demand and electricity rates are low and feed energy back into the grid when demand peaks. That give-and-take could deliver lower electricity bills for consumers and a more stable grid for the utility.
Nissan's electric car
coming soon
Florida Today
April 8, 2010
--The fully electric Nissan Leaf is expected to roll, pollution free, into showrooms and garages in December. The arrival of the economical -- by electric car standards-- is heavily anticipated in Brevard County.
North East carmakers
will benefit from electric alliance
Northeast Business Journal (UK)
April 8, 2010
--The development of electric cars in the North East is set to benefit
from an international deal between Nissan, its French partner Renault and
German motor giant Daimler.
Enel, Renault To Sign
Electricity Deal For Cars
The Wall Street Journal
April 8, 2010
--Italy's Enel SpA and France's
Renault SA will sign a deal Friday for the supply of electricity to power
cars.
Story Here
Spain To Invest EUR 590
Million In Electric Cars
RTT News
April 7, 2010
--Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has announced that his government will invest EUR 590 million in promoting and developing the production of electric cars over the next two years.
Mercedes, Nissan and
Renault will partner to produce electric cars and batteries
Washington Examiner
April 7, 2010
--Mercedes-Benz, Nissan and Renault are entering a wide-ranging partnership that includes joint development of vehicles and sharing technology on batteries, electric cars and powertrains. The joint effort will include small cars such as the Smart developed by Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler, and the Twingo, developed by Renault.
Automaker executives draw roadmap for electric
cars
Consumer Reports
April 7, 2010
--For electric cars to succeed, and for America to reduce its addiction to foreign oil, consumers are going to have to be more selective about their vehicle needs. That seemed to be the growing consensus of electric-car experts at a symposium hosted by the Japan Society of New York last week, as a prelude to the New York auto show.
Moses Lake, Wash., selected for BMW parts
plant
The Washington Post
April 6, 2010
--Drawn by cheap and sustainable hydropower, a joint venture to manufacture carbon fiber parts for a new BMW electric car will be built in Moses Lake, the heart of central Washington's potato country.
Your packages: Delivered by electric trucks
Los Angeles Times
April 6, 2010
--At least some of the boxes and envelopes delivered by FedEx Express in L.A. will arrive at their desinations in all-electric trucks. Beginning in late May, Los Angeles will serve as the U.S. pilot for the global delivery service when FedEx adds four electric delivery trucks to its local fleet of 600 vehicles.