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Ground breaks on Washington West Coast Electric Highway

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Mayor Dan Pike; and local businesses including Starbucks and REI, celebrated the ground breaking of the state’s first DC fast charger and its segment of the West Coast Electric Highway. The state’s first public DC fast-charging station is located in the Bellingham’s Sehome Village Shopping Center. Earlier post.)

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Mitsubishi bringing 2018 Outlander PHEV to US in December

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The 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) will arrive in dealerships in December 2017 with an MSRP of $34,595. It is also the only PHEV with DC Fast Charging capability (CHAdeMO). US fuel consumption and electric range figures are still to come. Equipped with a 2.0-liter Equipped with a 2.0-liter

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Coulomb Technologies and Aker Wade Partner on Level III Networked Fast Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles

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Coulomb Technologies and Aker Wade Power Technologies have agreed to deploy Level III networked fast charging stations for electric vehicles worldwide. The Level III charging stations will be capable of fully charging battery electric vehicles in less than one hour. This is the tipping point for electric vehicles.

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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning First Drive: Ford’s most valued model is now electric

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The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck may be the first real mass-market electric vehicle sold in the US. Ford rolled out a full team of managers and executives who’d created its first electric pickup, but the truck itself was the focus for dozens of reporters, analysts and reviewers. The F-150 Lightning is good.

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Mitsubishi to begin offering customers test drives of North American spec i-MiEV in November

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North American spec i-MiEV. Mitsubishi is positioning the North American i-MiEV electric vehicle as the most affordably-priced mass-produced EV available in the US. A redesigned center console featuring improved materials will also feature prominently on the new North American Mitsubishi i-MiEV.

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Mitsubishi Motors Begins Production of i-MiEV; Targeting 1,400 Units in Fiscal 2009

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The i-MiEV system configuration. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) unveiled the production version of the i-MiEV electric vehicle on World Environment Day in Tokyo. Calculated in-house based on the average of electric energy frameworks in Japan). The production i-MiEV. Click to enlarge.

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Mitsubishi Motors develops next-generation MIVEC engine and improved Idle-stop System

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liter gasoline engine incorporating a new version of the company’s MIVEC (Mitsubishi Innovative Valve timing Electronic Control) variable valve timing system; and the latest version of the company’s Auto Stop & Go (AS&G) idle-stop technology.