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Ford begins production of 2012 Focus Electric at Michigan Assembly, C-MAX models on deck

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A limited number of Focus Electrics will first be available in California and the New York/New Jersey areas. Availability of the Focus Electric will expand in 2012 to the remaining 15 launch markets as production ramps up. Seattle; and Washington, D.C. Seattle; and Washington, D.C. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Portland, Ore.;

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Proterra Catalyst electric bus sets records at Altoona in efficiency, gradeability, weight and acceleration

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The full public Altoona report is available here. grade, unprecedented in this test by an electric bus, making it an option to serve metropolitan areas with challenging topography in West Coast cities, including San Francisco and Seattle. While conventional diesel buses average 3.86 MPGe (equivalent to 10.7 l/100 km) (1.70

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Transitioning the fleet to all electric will eliminate emissions from diesel buses and emissions from shipping diesel fuel by barge 900 miles from Seattle. The City of Seneca and Oconee County will purchase 35' Proterra Catalyst zero-emission extended-range battery electric buses to the nation's first all-electric transit bus system.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Establishing dealer network.

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