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Smith Electric Vehicles to open manufacturing facility in Chicago

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Smith Electric Vehicles announced that Smith will open an electric vehicle manufacturing facility in Chicago. Chicago will be Smith’s third location in the United States, joining the headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., and a manufacturing facility in New York City.

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Ford opens E-Transit Registration site for commercial customers; new pricing

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To date, more than 450 commercial customers in North America, including 200 top fleets and fleet management companies, have said they’re interested in purchasing the E-Transit. It will be built alongside the Transit at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Missouri.

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Smith Electric Vehicles expands US manufacturing with facility in South Bronx; New York state incentive program for commercial fleet EVs

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Smith Electric Vehicles Corp. Smith will manufacture the battery electric Newton, its medium-duty vehicle with a range of up to 150 miles at the new facility beginning in 2012. A package of city and state incentives of approximately $11 million will augment Smith’s private investment. New York Gov.

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Ram Promaster EV brings Detroit’s third maker into electric vans

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It’s long been known that urban and suburban deliveries are one of the best duty cycles for battery-electric vehicles. Detroit automakers to offer a battery-electric van for the delivery fleets found throughout the US. liter V6 gasoline engine, but the new EV is still quite pricey.

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Ram Promaster EV brings Detroit’s third maker into electric vans – Charged EVs

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It’s long been known that urban and suburban deliveries are one of the best duty cycles for battery-electric vehicles. Detroit automakers to offer a battery-electric van for the delivery fleets found throughout the US. liter V6 gasoline engine, but the new EV is still quite pricey.

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Enova Systems Shows Ze, Outlines Planned Improvements in School Bus Plug-in Hybrid Drive

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48 per mile in a comparable diesel vehicle. Enova is supplying drive systems to Smith Electric Vehicles, and recently announced a major contract with First Auto Works (FAW) in China for hybrid buses. Enova can provide the Ze system either as a turnkey solution for new vehicles or as a conversion or retrofit.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state. The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative.