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Another electric vehicle alliance in China

Green Cars News

Just a week after we looked at China’s potential to be the new electric car super power (see article) another alliance has formed for the deployment of electric vehicles in the country.

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Eaton to introduce at-home natural gas refuelling

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It was just last week that we told you how GE had received funding from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) MOVE project to work on an at-home natural gas refuelling station (see article): and now the Eaton Corporation is set to follow suit. Eaton’s efforts have been part funded [.].

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Numerous electric vehicle charging announcements

Green Cars News

As the large scale introduction of electric vehicles edges ever closer, this week’s Plug-in 2010 conference and exhibition in San Jose, California, saw several infrastructure companies appear prominently and make announcements.

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News in brief: Mercedes hybrid truck on way

Green Cars News

We’re a step closer to the introduction of a Mercedes-Benz hybrid truck after the Eaton Corporation supplied key power technology for the Mercedes-Benz BlueTec Atego Hybrid. The vehicle will be part of a new range of Mercedes-Benz Atego trucks and is the first hybrid truck in Europe to gain European Type Approval.

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Refuse trucks to get green makeover

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Think green and the last vehicle you’re likely to picture is a refuse truck – not only do they tend to be big, ugly and smelly, but they are renowned gas guzzlers too. However, now the vehicles that take away our trash may be about to undergo a green makeover with diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation [.].

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DAF Trucks presents new hybrid truck

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The vehicle, which will enter production at the end of this year, was developed in collaboration with Eindhoven University of Technology, Leyland Trucks Ltd and Eaton, and is [.]. One of the biggest, figuratively and literally, debuts at the IAA 2010 in Hanover was the arrival of a 12-tonne LF45 parallel hybrid truck from DAF Trucks.

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UPS expands hybrid delivery fleet

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The company has expanded its fleet of alternative fuel vehicles with 200 next generation hybrid electric delivery trucks spread across eight US cities – Austin, Chicago, Houston, Long [.]. Some big name businesses are pushing to cut costs and do their bit for the environment – but few can boast about their efforts like delivery firm UPS.

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