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Baltimore welcomes electric car sharing scheme

Green Cars News

Urban residents in Baltimore, Maryland, have a chance to go green at the city’s Inner Harbour, as manufacturer Electrovaya launched the country’s first electric car sharing programme. Electrovaya has labelled the fleet of emission-free cars a “game changer&# in urban transportation.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

As a senior in high school, Smith entered an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Enginners (IEEE) competition in Baltimore describing a project on computers and small EVs. You could buy an LEV, but you could only get it serviced at the store you bought it from. His presentation won him an engineering scholarship to Duke University.

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Plug In Auto Nation

Plug In Partners

We believe Americans will buy these vehicles , which is why we want to sell them. The coalition is working with its partners to generate "soft" fleet orders to demonstrate the potential market for plug-in hybrid vehicles. Mike Jackson certainly knows what type of vehicles that Americans will buy.

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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.

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Campaign Begins

Plug In Partners

For example, an area pest control company has pledged to buy up to 150 light weight plug-in trucks, once they are produced. EV world NATIONAL COALITION LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO URGE AUTOMAKERS TO PRODUCE PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLES WASHINGTON, D.C.—January