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New fleet customers for XL Hybrid’s plug-in hybrid upfit for Ford F-150 pickups

Green Car Congress

.; Southern California Edison (SCE); and Tampa Electric (TECO). The XLP technology will be installed in MY17 and MY18 Ford F-150 pickups with the 2.7L Installation of the XLP PHEV system can be completed in just hours on half-ton pickup trucks as a Ford ship-thru upfit. EcoBoost engine and Ford’s Auto Stop-Start technology.

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BoostEV is an on-demand mobile EV charging network, like UberEats for hungry EVs

Charged EVs

So, right now, if you said, “Well, Josh, how quickly can you expand to the Tampa/St Pete, Florida area?” If Charged wanted to service EV owners in the Tampa Bay area (the location of Charged HQ), I could have your unit tomorrow, and then Tampa Bay is on the map. Now Tampa Bay EV owners can start getting range delivered.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Battery Based On Advanced Metal Hydrides A project team from the University of Utah will develop an advanced metal hydride-based compact hot and cold battery. vehicles (EVs) without draining the electric battery, in effect, extending the driving range of EVs per electric charge. Florida, Tampa). battery for EVs.

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Florida has no wind turbines but it’s going to ban them anyway

Baua Electric

The Tampa Bay Times reports that House Speaker Paul Renner (R-Palm Coast) said: I think it’s very similar to offshore drilling. And state Senator Jay Collins (R-Tampa) had this to say about the impending wind turbine ban: I think there are many causes [to climate change] and I think our weather patterns are cyclic. …

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