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Ford opens E-Transit Registration site for commercial customers; new pricing

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It will be built alongside the Transit at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Missouri. The zero-emission E-Transit was designed with insight from 30 million miles of customer telematics data showing that the average commercial van drives 74 miles per day.

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Smith Telemetry for EVs Launches at CV Operator Show

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For the fleet manager, this system delivers unprecedented real time information on each electric vehicle’s location and state of charge —Kevin Harkin, Sales Director for Smith Electric Vehicles. Edison can typically achieve 80 miles on a full charge, and can be fully recharged in as little as three hours.

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Argonne Study Examines Impact of Real World Drive Cycles on Efficiency and Cost of Different PHEV Configurations

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For drive cycles, the Argonne team used the Kansas City data collected in 2005 by the US EPA, which instrumented more than 100 drivers and collected their driving statistics for one day. Here the controller drives as long as possible using battery energy, depleting the state of charge (SOC) from 90% to 30%. Load engine power strategy.

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Smith Electric trucks go stateside

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Coca-Cola, Staples, Frito-Lay, AT&T, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) are the first Newton customers in the USA. It can be recharged in six hours. It is produced in North America by Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation, based in Kansas City, Missouri.

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New Ford F-150 offering full hybrid powertrain option

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It is targeting an EPA-estimated range of approximately 700 miles on a single tank of gas and will deliver at least 12,000 pounds of available maximum towing. The electric motor applies regenerative braking energy capture to help recharge the 1.5 The system even provides power on the move to charge tool batteries in between jobs.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). The project will include 27 alternative fuel stations (16 CNG, 7 B20/E85, one B20, three Electric Charging) and deploy 373 alternative fuel and advance technology vehicles (235 CNG, 58 HEV, two LPG, two EV).

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Smith Delivers First Electric Trucks to Major US Corporations

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Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L). The Smith Newton electric truck is powered by lithium-ion batteries from Valence Technology and a 120 kW induction motor for a range of more than 100 miles on a single charge. The on-board battery charger can achieve a full battery system recharge in as little as 6 hours.