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The unique role some Tribal nations are taking in the EV transition

Plug in America

With an initial focus on 26 Tribes in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota, the Upper Midwest Inter-Tribal EV Charging Community Network has quickly doubled the number of Native lands and states covered, having a long-term goal of connecting as many of the 574 sovereign Tribal nations in this country as possible.

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7-state Midwest EVOLVE project to promote electric vehicles; Ford, GM, Nissan initial automotive partners

Green Car Congress

The American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest announced the launch of Midwest EVOLVE , a three-year project to promote electric vehicles in seven Midwestern states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. The first events will be held in the spring of 2017.

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Eaton Cummins JV unveils 12-speed automated transmission

Green Car Congress

The making of Endurant included valuable input from specially formed Customer Councils, Driver Councils and Service Councils—a diverse list of fleet customers in various locations with different wants and needs in a transmission. This testing regimen resulted in more than two million equivalent field test miles.

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Green Motorsports: Subaru Hits the Track To Improve the Breed

Clean Fleet Report

Subaru Motorsports USA’s Motorsports Manager William Stokes told us that Subaru has supported the series since inception and through expansion from one motorsports course to this year’s stops at five courses in Utah, Minnesota, Arizona, California and Florida. Brand Enhancement.

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ARPA-E awards $32M to 10 new projects to improve connected and automated vehicle efficiency

Green Car Congress

By integrating these systems with data from emerging CAV technologies, vehicles will be able to predict future driving conditions and events such as changing road grade or the interactions with other vehicles merging from multiple intersections. University of Minnesota.

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Ford contributing 20 vehicles to simTD V2X trials

Green Car Congress

to alert for an out-of-sight braking event, e.g., smaller car in front of larger van as illustrated) as part of the sim TD trials. The sim TD project is fielding a fleet of 120 vehicles to to test 20 experimental driver assistance technologies. Click to enlarge. Earlier post , earlier post.)

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

The Plug-In Partners campaign has now surpassed 6,000 fleet orders. Soft” fleet orders are a critical component of the Plug-In Partners goal of demonstrating to automakers that a market exists for flexible fuel plug-in hybrids. As fleet orders increase, city governments around the country also continue to join the coalition.