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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. The SEV US Newton. Click to enlarge.

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Smith Electric Vehicles withdraws IPO

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Smith produces zero-emission vehicles that are designed to be an alternative to traditional diesel trucks, providing higher efficiency and lower total cost of ownership. The company operates manufacturing facilities in Kansas City, Mo., and outside of Newcastle, U.K.

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Enova Announces Incremental 100 System Order from Smith Electric Vehicles

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The order for 100 Enova 120kW drive systems will be installed into Smith Newton trucks in Kansas City, MO. The $32-million grant is being used to offset the cost of future vehicle development and to incentivize customers to participate in a vehicle demonstration program.

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Smith Electric Vehicles Orders 50 Enova Drive Systems

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This order follows two from earlier in the year, totaling 120 units year-to-date, and will be installed into Smith Newton trucks manufactured in Kansas City. The order puts Enova on track to culminate in a total order of more than 250 by year end.

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Tesla Model Y welcomed by Kansas PD, expected to give cost savings

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Captain Kirt Yoder, the agency’s project manager, noted that Tesla Kansas had been quite helpful. Tesla-Kansas City was great. Apart from being a green vehicle, the Model Y is also expected to give the Leawood Police Department substantial cost savings. This estimate was based on the 2021 cost of $0.08

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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. Cost benefit analysis. Based on the results, Argonne also modeled out the cost-benefit of the different configurations.

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Smith Electric Vehicles to open manufacturing facility in Chicago

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Chicago will be Smith’s third location in the United States, joining the headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., and a manufacturing facility in New York City. The City is also considering additional incentives such as preferential loading zones and decreased registration costs to complement the voucher program.

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