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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Battery Booster Pack?

The Truth About Cars

.& & Busted hoopties often have dead batteries, making the modern booster pack something of a must-have around these parts. Besides, that other car probably has a dead battery, too. & & Of course, one needn’t lug around a heavy battery pack these days, not with the myriad of compact 12V jump starter units on the market.

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Smith Electric Vehicles, Altec and PGE Partner on All-Electric Utility Truck

Green Car Congress

The truck is a battery-powered, all-electric Smith Newton produced by SEV US and SEV UK with an aerial bucket integrated by Altec Industries Inc. The Smith Newton is the world’s largest battery-electric-powered truck. Full battery recharge requires 6-8 hours. Tags: Electric (Battery) Heavy-duty. Earlier post.).

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Smith Telemetry for EVs Launches at CV Operator Show

Green Car Congress

Smith Telemetry collates and interprets more than 1,800 data sets from an electric vehicle’s driveline controller and Battery Management System (BMS), along with a GPS tracker. Based on the Ford Transit, the Smith Edison is powered by a 90 kW electric motor and lithium-ion battery pack. Tags: Electric (Battery) Fleets.

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New Ford F-150 offering full hybrid powertrain option

Green Car Congress

The new F-150 targets the most towing, payload, torque and horsepower of any light-duty full-size pickup, introduces all-new features to increase customer productivity, has new connected vehicle innovations such as over-the-air updates, and offers an available all-new 3.5-liter kWh lithium-ion battery. liter EcoBoost V6.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

These projects put more than 9,000 alternative fuel and energy-efficient light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles on the road, and establish 542 refueling locations across the country. The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG).

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Smith Electric trucks go stateside

Green Cars News

Coca-Cola, Staples, Frito-Lay, AT&T, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) are the first Newton customers in the USA. It can be recharged in six hours. It is produced in North America by Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation, based in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition. Keene, N.H.,