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Why Fleet Owners Are Electrifying Their Vehicles This Year

Blink Charging

The best time to transition your business vehicle fleet from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to electric vehicles (EV) is now. Thanks to new tax credits for EVs and EV charging stations as well as lower fuel and maintenance costs for EVs, fleet managers can now save money while setting an example for other organizations.

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3 Reasons an Electric Vehicle is the Perfect Present

EV Match

It’s hard to miss the corny holiday car commercials this time of year. The fact that car companies air these commercials year-after-year means they’re at least somewhat effective. So if you’re finding yourself persuaded to buy a car this holiday season, let it be electric. Credit: Tesla.

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Cash for Volts?

Revenge of the Electric Car

More details at: Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. to offer tax credits for buying all-electric plug-in vehicles as part of a $128 billion program to get seven million such cars on the road by 2018. UPDATE:Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use. by Judith Burns for Dow Jones.

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Expert panel report finds achieving 1M plug-in vehicles in US by 2015 would require concentrated action to overcome barriers

Green Car Congress

Because [Ford] can provide the hardware, but ultimately, our country has to decide is this where we really want to go and if so, how are we going to really develop the smart grid in a way that works and allows the utilities to actually speak to each other and trade power, ubiquity of charging and all those things. —John D.

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Ford Investing $550M to Retool SUV Plant to Produce Focus Small Car and EV

Green Car Congress

The zero-emission Focus battery-electric vehicle, which is being developed in partnership with Magna International, features a high-voltage electric motor powered by a high-capacity lithium-ion battery pack and charged by plugging in to a 110-volt or 220-volt outlet.

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AMP heavy-duty electric step van passes initial testing

Green Car Congress

The delivery of the van marks AMP’s first step in its development deal with Navistar for large commercial EVs built for the urban delivery market. The electric vehicles built under this agreement are designed for 100 miles of range on a single charge and have a maximum gross vehicle weight of 19,500 lbs. AMP Holding, Inc.,

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BMW’s Sebastian Mackensen: BEVs will pressure call for longer term

Baua Electric

The $7,500 clean commercial vehicle tax credit has] undoubtedly affected the per 30 days hire worth from a client point of view. We’re signaling to our world colleagues our call for and looking to get the fitting automobiles to this marketplace. Electrical automobiles wish to get charged.