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FactCheck.Org: Playing Politics with Gasoline Prices

FactCheck.Org: Playing Politics with Gasoline Prices

FactCheck.org says Democrats and Republicans disagree on energy policy, but this they share: Both shade the facts on the complex issue for political advantage. ■Republicans say repealing oil industry tax breaks will drive up costs at the pump. However, nonpartisan congressional analysts and industry experts say hig ... Continue reading

Eco-Smart I Electric Bus Averages Up to 30 miles Per Gallon

Eco-Smart I Electric Bus Averages Up to 30 miles Per Gallon

DesignLine Corporation, the leading designer and manufacturer of electric drive systems for the commercial bus market, announced yet another milestone today with its all electric bus, the Eco-Smart I, averaging up to 30 miles per gallon (diesel equivalent) in actual, daily passenger service while maintaining 100% up-ti ... Continue reading

Designing the Li-ion Inizio, World's Fastest All Electric Supercar - In-Depth Engineering Video

Designing the Li-ion Inizio, World's Fastest All Electric Supercar - In-Depth Engineering Video

Designing the World's Fastest All Electric Supercar-In Depth Engineering Video Inizio-170 MPH, 0-60 in 3.4 Seconds, up to 200 miles on a single $5 charge. Available to the media Inizio - Worlds Fastest, All Electric, Zero Emission Supercar 170 MPH, 0-60 in 3.4 Sec, up to 200 miles on single charge Take a look for yours ... Continue reading

AAA Goes Electric

AAA Goes Electric

America's largest motor club demonstrates leadership in electric vehicle industry with announcement of nation's first ready-for-deployment mobile EV charging solution. ... Continue reading

Research and Markets: Light Electric Vehicles 2011-2021

Research and Markets: Light Electric Vehicles 2011-2021

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Light Electric Vehicles 2011-2021" report to their offering. Written by the world's leading expert on LEVs, with the longest track record, this LEV report looks closely at global trends in their technology, manufacture and market drivers such as legislation. IDTec ... Continue reading

What's New With EVs and Other Green Vehicles? Not Much!

What's New With EVs and Other Green Vehicles? Not Much!

Not much, say experts at Automotive News conference this week By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau We spent a couple days this week talking about electric cars, and listening to experts and advocates talk about the future of automotive electrification as well as many other kinds of environmentally friendly ... Continue reading

Solar Carport at GE Campus

Solar Carport at GE Campus

Solaire Generation unveiled its patent pending Premium F2 Solar Carport Structure at a GE facility in Plainville, Conn., as part of GE's largest Electric-Vehicle (EV) charging station installation in North America. Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, Luis Ramirez, CEO of GE Energy Industrial Solutions, and Laurence Mac ... Continue reading

Brazil Orders Volvo Hybrid Buses

Brazil Orders Volvo Hybrid Buses

Other exhaust emissions decline by 80-90% compared with current levels in South America. Volvo Buses has received its largest hybrid bus order to date. The city of Curitiba in Brazil has ordered 60 buses that generate up to 35% less fuel consumption. ... Continue reading

Electric Utility Fleet Managers Conference Will Show Quantum F-150 Plug In Hybrid

Electric Utility Fleet Managers Conference Will Show Quantum F-150 Plug In Hybrid

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. announced today that it will exhibit its F-150 Plug-in Hybrid Electric (PHEV) pickup truck at the Electric Utility Fleet Managers Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, June 19-22, 2011. The Ford F-150 PHEV is powered by Quantum's "F-Drive" hybrid drive system which is a ... Continue reading

Pike Research Predicts That A Fleet of 695,000 Neighborhood Electric Vehicles to be on the Road by 2017

Pike Research Predicts That A Fleet of 695,000 Neighborhood Electric Vehicles to be on the Road by 2017

Neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs), also known as low-speed electric vehicles, were one of the original “electric vehicle" categories and have been on the market for a number of years. NEVs are street legal with a top speed of 25 miles per hour. Originally conceived as a way to fulfill the California Air Resources ... Continue reading

EV Charging Stations Among the Vineyards: HALL Wines Installs Blink

EV Charging Stations Among the Vineyards: HALL Wines Installs Blink

ECOtality, Inc. , leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, announces HALL Wines as the first vineyard and winery to install an ECOtality electric charging vehicle station, as part of The Electronic Vehicle (EV) Project, the largest deployment of EV Charging infrastructure in history. Beginning ... Continue reading

First ANSI Electric Vehicles Standards Panel Will Take Place June 20-21

First ANSI Electric Vehicles Standards Panel Will Take Place June 20-21

Electric Vehicles Standards Panel to Host First Plenary June 20-21 in Detroit All Interested Parties Encouraged to Help Drive Safe Implementation of Electric Vehicles in the U.S. New York, The first plenary meeting of the ANSI Electric Vehicles Standards Panel (EVSP) will take place on June 20-21, 2011, in Detroit to i ... Continue reading

ENN Group and Duke Energy Helped the Environment and Won Asia Society Washington's International Business Award

ENN Group and Duke Energy Helped the Environment and Won Asia Society Washington's International Business Award

The Asia Society of Washington D.C. will recognize two energy industry executives at its annual awards ceremony on June 15th at the Washington Ritz-Carlton. Chinese entrepreneur Wang Yusuo, Chairman of ENN Group (Langfang, Hebei Province), and Duke Energy President and CEO Jim Rogers (Charlotte, N.C.) are jointly recei ... Continue reading

3,000 New Energy Vehicles in Jinhua, China by Kandi Technologies

3,000 New Energy Vehicles in Jinhua, China by Kandi Technologies

Kandi Technologies, Corp. , a leading Chinese supplier of off-road vehicles and developer of pure electric vehicles (EV), today reported that the company has received formal provincial government approval on the application of the new energy vehicle pilot program in Jinhua City, located in the Zhejiang Province. ... Continue reading

Honda Demonstrates Zero Emission EV-neo Motor Scooter in Europe - VIDEO ENHANCED

Honda Demonstrates Zero Emission EV-neo Motor Scooter in Europe - VIDEO ENHANCED

BARCELONA - June 15, 2011: Honda announced today that the EV-neo electric scooter will make its European debut. A Demonstration Programme in conjunction with Barcelona City Council will get underway from the beginning of July 2011. EV-neo is a battery electric scooter with zero in-use CO2 emissions. Representing a sign ... Continue reading

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