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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport adds two BYD electric buses

Green Car Congress

Kansas City International Airport has four 30-foot BYD battery-electric K7s, and BYD’s largest airport customer to date, Los Angeles World Airports, has ordered 20 of BYD’s 60-foot articulated K11Ms. The vehicles carry 22 passengers and luggage; the vehicles they replaced only carried 14 passengers.

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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

Kansas City EAA chapter members challenge government regulation as part of their efforts to support clean energy. You buy your own solar panels, you power your house and your car, and the utility wants to get paid for your doing that.” They’re just putting up one more barrier to make sure people keep buying gas guzzlers.”

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US DOE Awards Additional $22M to Smith Electric Vehicles US Corp; $32M Total

Green Car Congress

Smith’s Kansas City assembly plant and corporate office currently employ approximately 50 people. Smith will continue expansion in Kansas City at the company’s corporate headquarters staff, through its research and development group and the assembly plant team. Tanfield also wholly owns Smith Electric Vehicles in the UK.

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After 50 Years, Digital Voices Speak Again

Cars That Think

“Ali Baba knew how men buy lime.”. Cass approached me with this question because I work at the Linda Hall Library (LHL), an independent research library in Kansas City, Missouri that collects materials related to science, technology, engineering, and their histories. The beach is dry and shallow at low tide.”.

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NYC's Duane Reade buys electric trucks from Smith Electric Vehicles

National Green Transportation

Duane Reade announced yesterday a partnership with Kansas City based electric truck manufacturer, Smith Electric Vehicles. This pilot program makes Duane Reade the first U.S. retail pharmacy to adopt vehicle electrification for delivery vehicles.

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Smith Electric Vehicles US buys out Smith Electric Vehicles UK

National Green Transportation

The electric truck maker based in Kansas City, Smith Electric Vehicles (SEVUS), was the US branch of a British company with a long history of electric truck manufacturing. Do you like this story? In Feb 2009 the conglomerate, Tanfield Group, entered the US market.

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Non-stop car insider 

Electric Auto Association

Now, conversations with people are less about ‘if you will buy’ and more about ‘when will you buy.’” The first trip we took together was from Kansas City to Orlando. Elaine’s car was carried on a car hauler for an ECI event we did in Kansas City. After that, up to New York we went.