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Smith Electric Vehicles US Selects Kansas City for Electric Truck Assembly Plant; Newton Model to Be First

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Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation ( SEV US ) has selected Kansas City as the site for its US assembly plant. The new assembly plant will be located at a portion of an airline overhaul base at Kansas City International (KCI) Airport and is expected to create 120 jobs by 2010. Earlier post.)

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Westinghouse and Ameren Missouri form NexStart SMR Alliance for rapid licensing and deployment of Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor technology; targeting operation in 2022

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The Empire District Electric Company; and Kansas City Power and Light Company. Westinghouse Electric Company is a group company of Toshiba Corporation. Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives, Inc.; Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for approximately one-half of the world’s operating nuclear plants.

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Ford and Smith Terminate Partnership on Electric Transit Connect Project for US; Ford Now Partnering with Azure Dynamics to Deliver the Vehicle in 2010; Smith Partnering with AM General on Electric Vans for USPS

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SEV US has commenced production of the Smith Newton electric truck platform at its assembly facility in Kansas City, Missouri, and currently has an order book of 255 trucks. The Transit Connect BEV will be built on Ford’s global commercial vehicle platform as part of the company’s One Ford global product vision. Ford and Azure.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Kansas City Power & Light. Loan guarantees can be an important tool to commercialize innovative technologies because these projects may be unable to obtain full commercial financing due to the perceived risks associated with technology that has never been deployed at commercial scale in the United States.

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Ford and Smith scrap electric Transit plans

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What’s more is that proceeding with the Transit Connect would have meant limiting the working capital available to support the growth of the Newton, which has already commenced production at the assembly facility in Kansas City, Missouri, and has an order book of 255 trucks.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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General Motors Corporation. General Motors Corporation. Expansion of manufacturing for existing electric drive power electronics components for both passenger and commercial vehicles. Expansion of manufacturing for existing electric drive power electronics components for both passenger and commercial vehicles. Kokomo, IN.

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