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Volvo Trucks and Bucher collaborate to electrify sewer cleaner trucks

Green Car Congress

To meet this demand, Bucher Municipal, a leading supplier of municipal vehicles such as street sweepers, winter maintenance equipment, refuse vehicles, and sewer cleaning trucks, has joined forces with Volvo Trucks to develop an all-electric sewer cleaner built on the Volvo FL Electric truck.

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London Calling: Congestion Charge Recharges Electric Cars

Plugs and Cars

Norway's Th!nk Mitsubishi could be the first with cars for sale if the UK distributor has its way. There is a market for cool and clean at the low and high end. Despite being low-speed vehicles about which safety concerns have been raised, they have months long waiting lists. nk City in 2008.

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Think to resume electric car production

Green Cars News

The company continues to be backed by a very loyal group of investors, made up of some individual Norwegian investors as well as leading venture capital and clean-tech investment firms from the USA and the UK. . nk city EV and ran a business leasing program in Norway with plans for a similar scheme in the UK.

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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Chevrolet S-10 :Jim Coates very clean conversion Chevrolet S-10 :Mark Brueggemanns neat project, and more. FordExpress : Svein Medhus has the first EV conversion in Norway. PlymouthHorizon : RLewits Home Page, car was for sale but he sold it. Chevrolet S-10 :Brian has a new and very nice conversion. Porsche911T : D.

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I wish the thing was for sale as-is. Well they did give brief bursts of acceleration through the parking lot to show that it does have some Roadster goodness to it. But yes, there was no slalom to see how it handles the twisties. It is probably a real rocket compared to the Daimler version that will eventually show up.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The trouble is you then have to stop right away, which brings about some pretty strong regenerative braking action, something that Chrysler needs to work on before making the Circuit available for sale. Keep reading about the EVs good and bad qualities after the jump. The combined electrical storage efficiency of charger and batteries is 85%.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia GM is committed to putting the system in the Chevrolet Volt for sale by 2010, Lutz said.

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