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Bright Automotive Launches Bright eSolutions; US Army Hybrid Vehicle Contract

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Bright Automotive, Inc., the developer of the purpose-built, plug-in hybrid IDEA ( earlier post ) launched of Bright eSolutions to support automotive customers worldwide to accelerate vehicle electrification, lightweighting, and overall platform efficiency. As part of the $1.4 IDEA performance upgrade.

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Electrification Coalition Roadmap Calls for 75% of Light-Duty Vehicle Miles Traveled in the US to Be Electric by 2040

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Achieving this will require a minimum of 25% of new light-duty vehicles purchased in the US to be grid-enabled vehicles (GEV) by 2020. This is defined as the point at which grid-enabled vehicles represent 25 percent of new LDV purchases. Extend consumer tax credits for home charging equipment. Source: Electrification Roadmap.

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US Army commits to a Bright future

Green Cars News

Bright Automotive Inc has launched eSolutions in an effort to accelerate worldwide electrification and overall platform efficiency and at the heart of the new programme is a newly announced contract from the US Army TACOM to conduct a demonstration project on a low-cost plug-in hybrid electric solution for non-tactical military vehicles.

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GM looking to combination of internal R&D and external investments for new technology; focus on five key areas; the importance of generational change

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Systems for charging, cooling, etc. But there is reason to be optimistic that battery technology—which by far casts the longest shadow on grid-centric vehicles—there is reason to believe it will improve quite significantly in the future. That’s very useful,” note Lauckner. Scale or generational change. —John Lauckner.

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Are You Plugged In?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Bright Automotive. Coda Automotive. Fisker Automotive. Fisker Automotive. Bright Automotive. And Reuben Munger, former managing partner at investment firm Baupost Group LLC, is a founder and chairman of Bright, which developed a fully electric delivery van called Idea. Fisker Automotive.

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Yeah, I Got Your Chevy Volt, Right Here. Day 2 @ Plug-In 2009

Creative Greenius

Get to know Coulomb they make the CHARGEPOINT charging stations and they make them good. Their chargers were all over the exhibit floor charging every EV there. Coulomb offers a family of products and services that provide a plug-in vehicle charging infrastructure. May I charge your EV sir? Check the oil? there is no oil.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Establishing dealer network.

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