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Balqon debuts new medium duty electric truck, the Mule M100

National Green Transportation

Electric vehicles don't have to be tiny boring golf carts. Balqon, the Los Angeles based. They can be big trucks hauling significant cargo loads, with the potential to significantly reduce diesel exhaust concentrations around ports facilities.

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Feature: Are Electric Fire Trucks in the Near Future?

Clean Fleet Report

Now, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) is showing off North America’s first electric fire engine from Austria-based Rosenbauer Group. Various other companies are currently designing and developing fleets of fully electric emergency vehicles, including golf carts for police and ATVs for search-and-rescue operations.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

A very low cost EV is taking a golf cart transaxle or whole GC rear/seat and weld, ect a MC front end, frame, title to it, change the batteries from 6vdc to 12vdc to double the voltage and use larger dia VW Rabbit tires and you can have a nice 1- 3 person MC trike that goes 45-55mph and 50+ mile range.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time. You guys go ahead and buy your 40 mile per charge GM golf cart. Then he just about crapped in his pants when the friggin thing kept running out of a charge at the most inoportune time. Oh, and it looks wayyyyy cooler than the Volt.

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