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Nissan Selects Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Network to Provide Complete Public Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Nissan Selects Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Network to Provide Complete Public Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA) today selected Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Network to provide comprehensive electric vehicle public charging infrastructure locations for Nissan LEAF drivers. Nissan North America is the first automaker to seamlessly integrate with ChargePoint Network, the largest network of indepe ... Continue reading

New Lincoln MKS: Refinements Signal Direction for Brand Today, Tomorrow +VIDEO

New Lincoln MKS: Refinements Signal Direction for Brand Today, Tomorrow +VIDEO

Better handling, increased power, improved fuel efficiency, additional standard equipment, more refinement and new technologies that help drivers reduce accident risks provide luxury customers with important new reasons to consider Lincoln and its flagship sedan, the new MKS. The full-size Lincoln MKS sports an updated ... Continue reading

BAE Systems Delivers Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus for SunLine Transit

BAE Systems Delivers Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus for SunLine Transit

BAE Systems has delivered a zero-emissions bus for SunLine Transit, a Southern California regional transit agency, this week. Under a project aimed at leveraging improvements from previous programs to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of fuel cell technology, BAE Systems has served as the prime integrator to deliv ... Continue reading

T3 Electric Vehicle Makes Cameo Appearance on NCIS Television Series on CBS

T3 Electric Vehicle Makes Cameo Appearance on NCIS Television Series on CBS

T3 Motion, Inc. a producer of clean/green technology, announced that a T3 Series Electric Stand-up Vehicle (ESV) made a cameo on-screen appearance in the NCIS episode entitled "Devils Triangle" that aired November 1, 2011. The T3 ESV was featured as a security vehicle at a high-technology facility where the show's dete ... Continue reading

Research and Markets: A 2011 Deployment Roadmap for Connected Electric Vehicles Considers Market Trends, Major Players and Future Outlook

Research and Markets: A 2011 Deployment Roadmap for Connected Electric Vehicles Considers Market Trends, Major Players and Future Outlook

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "A Deployment Roadmap for Connected Electric Vehicles" report to their offering. Deployment Roadmap for Connected Electric Vehicles A comprehensive analysis of the connected Electric Vehicle value chain in China, the USA and Western Europe As vehicle manufacturers ... Continue reading

Pearson Fuels is First in Alternative Fuels Industry with Educational Animated Video

Pearson Fuels is First in Alternative Fuels Industry with Educational Animated Video

Pearson Fuels has launched their new educational animated short, “Fuel Better in Sixty Seconds. The video is available at http://www.pearsonfuels.com/fuelbetter. With the election season ramping up and daily conversations occurring in the media around budget cuts and tax policy, it is important that the public be educ ... Continue reading

Consumer Reports Poll: Large Majority of Consumers Support Stronger Fuel Economy Standards to Save Money, Lower Fuel Costs

Consumer Reports Poll: Large Majority of Consumers Support Stronger Fuel Economy Standards to Save Money, Lower Fuel Costs

Over Three-Fourths Say Government Should Increase, Enforce Higher Standards. An overwhelming majority of consumers believe that fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks should be improved, according to a new poll by the Consumer Reports National Research Center. Nearly all respondents (93 percent) support increase ... Continue reading

Smith Electric Vehicles Announces Appointment of Thomas Stallkamp, Robert Druten to Its Board of Directors, Smith CEO Bryan Hansel as Chairman

Smith Electric Vehicles Announces Appointment of Thomas Stallkamp, Robert Druten to Its Board of Directors, Smith CEO Bryan Hansel as Chairman

Smith Electric Vehicles Corp. (Smith), a leader in all-electric commercial vehicles, today announced the appointment, effective Nov. 4, 2011, of Thomas T. Stallkamp and Robert J. Druten to its board of directors, and Bryan Hansel, Smith's current president and chief executive officer, as chairman. Mr. Stallkamp brings ... Continue reading

KCP&L Begins Electric Vehicle Charging Pilot Program Using Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Network

KCP&L Begins Electric Vehicle Charging Pilot Program Using Coulomb Technologies ChargePoint Network

Coulomb Technologies today announced that KCP&L, an investor-owned utility headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., is using Coulomb's ChargePoint Network to access essential electric vehicle (EV) charging station data collected for a three-year pilot program in and around the Kansas City region. The program consists of eigh ... Continue reading

Clean Energy Partners with Quarles Petroleum to Add Natural Gas Fueling Service at Quarles Fleet Fueling Stations in the Mid-Atlantic Region

Clean Energy Partners with Quarles Petroleum to Add Natural Gas Fueling Service at Quarles Fleet Fueling Stations in the Mid-Atlantic Region

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has partnered with Quarles Petroleum, Inc., a major Mid-Atlantic fleet fuel station operator, to add natural gas fueling services at selected Quarles station locations. Many of our customers are interested in natural gas-powered vehicles for their fleets. In response, we have partnered with Cle ... Continue reading

Nissan, Sumitomo Bring Low-Cost Electric-Car Quick Charger to U.S. Market

Nissan, Sumitomo Bring Low-Cost Electric-Car Quick Charger to U.S. Market

Nissan North America Inc. (NNA) today announced that it is bringing an innovative, low-cost DC quick charger for electric cars to the U.S. market. The DC quick charger is being launched as part of a global collaboration with Sumitomo Corporation, with the first installations planned for early 2012. Nissan and Sumitomo ... Continue reading

Niyato Industries Presents The First American-Built Consumer Electric Vehicle under $50,000

Niyato Industries Presents The First American-Built Consumer Electric Vehicle under $50,000

Niyato Industries Inc. announces that it will be the first American automobile company to convert new 5-passenger gasoline sedans for the American people to an all-electric powered vehicle for under $50,000. We at Niyato Industries Inc. are all Americans and we have created Niyato Industries to put Americans to work. N ... Continue reading

First Electric Vehicle Wireless Charging Trial Announced for London

First Electric Vehicle Wireless Charging Trial Announced for London

Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the first Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging (WEVC) trial for London in what is a UK and industry-leading initiative. Qualcomm is collaborating with the UK Government, as well as the Mayor of London's office and Transport for London (TfL) to deliver the trial. The pre-commercial tr ... Continue reading

Bay Area Leaders Announce Formation of 'EV Strategic Council' and $5M+ for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure

Bay Area Leaders Announce Formation of 'EV Strategic Council' and $5M+ for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure

Bay Area elected and business leaders announced today the launch of a CEO-level “EV Strategic Council" along with $5 million+ in new funding -- to ensure that the Bay Area becomes the “EV Capital of the U.S." Led by the region's big city Mayors, regional officials and clean tech industry executives, the Bay Area EV S ... Continue reading

Alcoa Develops New All-Aluminum Design for New BYD Electric Bus

Alcoa Develops New All-Aluminum Design for New BYD Electric Bus

Alcoa today announced it has developed a new all-aluminum space frame and bus design for BYD that has reduced the weight of the new BYD Electric Bus body by 40 percent, or nearly one ton, versus steel options. The first two BYD Electric Bus prototypes were launched this week in Changsha City, Hunan Province, China. ... Continue reading

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