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King County, Washington, Purchases 24 Azure Dynamics Balance Hybrid Electric Buses

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Azure Dynamics Corporation announced the sale of 24 Balance Hybrid Electric buses to King County, Washington for its Access Transportation services. StarTrans Bus, a Supreme Corporation company, provided the 22-foot shuttle bus bodies with a capacity of up to 12 seated passengers plus two wheelchair positions.

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Materials Company EnerG2 Breaks Ground on Plant for Ultracap Electrode Materials

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Seattle, Washington-based EnerG2 , a seven-year-old company focused on introducing advanced nano-structured materials for next-generation energy storage, broke ground on its first facility dedicated to the commercial-scale production of synthetic high-performance carbon electrode material for use in ultracapacitor energy storage devices.

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Underwriters Laboratories Named Exclusive Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory for The EV Project

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The company signed a memorandum of understanding with Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), a wholly owned subsidiary of ECOtality, Inc. to test and certify eTec’s vehicle charging stations that will be used in the project. Manufacturers work with UL to develop safer products and increase consumer confidence.

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Chrysler Unveils Four All-Electric Minivan Prototypes to USPS; Applying for Grant for Nationwide Demo

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Chrysler unveiled four all-electric Chrysler Town & Country minivan concepts to the US Postal Service (USPS) in Washington, DC, as part of the USPS Earth Day celebration.

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3 Years Of Painful Cuts Sets Oil Markets Up For Serious Supply Crunch

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Oil companies are making painful cuts to spending, which will translate into much lower production than expected in the years ahead. It might be that we see quite a dramatic reduction in replacing the capacity and of course that will have an impact, eventually, on price.”.

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

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The charge stations and installations were paid for with federal stimulus and California Energy Commission grants won by Coulomb. If you are a business in a program area, you can get the same deal - free charge stations paid for by stimulus money. ChargePoint America is looking for hosts for charge stations.

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Pike Research forecasts 37% CAGR for EV charging equipment, with 2.4 million units sold in 2020; wireless charging to show strong growth

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Pike anticipates more than 135,000 PEVs will be sold globally in 2012; the past year accordingly has also seen a major uptick in EVSE deployments, in the number of companies competing in this space, and in the number and types of EVSE on the market. The EVSE market will rise from below 200,000 units sold in 2012 to almost 2.4

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