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Ferguson collaborates with Ford on F550 Fuel Cell Prototype

Green Car Congress

Ferguson Enterprises is collaborating with Ford Motor Company to place a first-of-its-kind F550 Fuel Cell Prototype Chassis Work Truck in service within Ferguson’s daily fleet operations for six months.

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Gadget’s New World

Revenge of the Electric Car

Gadget runs an electric car conversion company called Left Coast Electric. Late last year, Gadget’s workshop was destroyed in a fire. Most people would have been knocked flat by such a turn of events, but the fire seems to have made Gadget and his wife, Charlotte, even more determined to push for a plug-in future.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Green Car Congress

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). Framatome Inc.

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BMW Announces National Adaptive EV Charging System Expansion

The Truth About Cars

& The above also means enrollment can be done entirely online without a dealership needing to install anything to your vehicle and the company has said that ChargeForward will be a completely free service. There’s also an incentive scheme that rewards users for running with the concept. & There are certainly some good ideas here.

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