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Daimler Trucks E-Mobility Group starts global initiative for electric-truck charging infrastructure

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The initial focus is on charging stations installed at the depots of truck customers. The E-Mobility Group is set up globally with employees working in various locations throughout the company's worldwide development network, i.e. in Portland (US), Stuttgart (Germany) and Kawasaki (Japan).

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The Growing List of EVmatch Partners

EV Match

EVmatch and Silicon Valley Clean Energy are working together to install charging stations at multi-family properties in Santa Clara County, California. BED offers an additional $500 per installed charger to help cover the installation costs of each station if the owner agrees to make it publicly available from 9am – 5pm.

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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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Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. Portland General Electric. The partnership will also work to enhance workplace charging efforts at public power utilities, study the impacts of EVs in public power communities, and share insights regarding infrastructure installation and EV interaction with the modern grid. Kansas City Power & Light.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

Cars That Think

Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., Fast Untethered Soft Robotic Crawler with Elastic Instability,” by Zechen Xiong, Yufeng Su, and Hod Lipson from Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Dorobantu, and Aaron D.

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"Spirit of DC" PHEV All Around America Update. from EVJerry back in DC with the "Spirit" Hanging out at the Beach!

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Note: the Green Train leave on its six week venture from Portland and is en route to DC. Robb Protheroe, PluginSupply, is game to install the set of Li-ion NCM batteries and set the settings on the "Spirit." DPS will donate a battery pack of 6kwh ~ 7kwh with a 1500W charger.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Contact Toronto Atmospheric Fund Office for Resource Efficiency Escape by Hybrids Plus , Jan 16, 2008, (USA). Portland General Electric, Toyota Prius by Hymotion, November 2008 (Portland, OR) Rick Durst Tom Heywood, 2005 Prius, by Galpin Motors Van Nuys, CA, December 2008 (Solana Beach, CA), contact jthomasheywood@yahoo.com 858-805-5779.

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