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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

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This service allows users to pick up and drop off a vehicle at any legal public parking spot, including metered locations, within a 13 sq. This future-proof charging technology will meet the needs of all electric vehicles available today and the advanced EVs expected as early as 2020. mile “Home Zone.”

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The technology behind Ford’s Lightweight Concept Vehicle; prospects for Mach-II with 50% mass reduction difficult

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Matt Zaluzec, Ford technical leader, Global Materials and Manufacturing Research, was the use of technologies that are targeting the use of mixed materials and that are available today. This will be street legal, but that’s it. [It] I think you will see a lot of smaller cars find weight savings with advanced high strength steel.

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