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

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The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. The project will deploy 502 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles through 119 public and private fleets throughout the state. Total DOE award: $15,000,000.

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Smith Electric Vehicles, Altec and PGE Partner on All-Electric Utility Truck

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The partners inroduced the prototype at the Electric Utility Fleet Managers Conference in Williamsburg, Va. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will add the first test unit to its fleet to conduct routine and emergency overhead line work in PG&E’s northern and central California service area.

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Smith Electric powers ahead with utility truck

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The partners, who introduced the prototype at the Electric Utility Fleet Managers Conference in Williamsburg Virginia, will send the first test unit to the fleet of the Pacific Gas and Electricity Company to conduct routine and emergency overhead line work in the northern and central California service area.

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Smith Electric trucks go stateside

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Coca-Cola, Staples, Frito-Lay, AT&T, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) are the first Newton customers in the USA. It can be recharged in six hours. It is produced in North America by Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation, based in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Summer Update

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The Plug-In Partners campaign has now surpassed 6,000 fleet orders. Soft” fleet orders are a critical component of the Plug-In Partners goal of demonstrating to automakers that a market exists for flexible fuel plug-in hybrids. As fleet orders increase, city governments around the country also continue to join the coalition.

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Smith Delivers First Electric Trucks to Major US Corporations

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First recipients include: Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L). The on-board battery charger can achieve a full battery system recharge in as little as 6 hours. Smith Electric Vehicles US, a Delaware corporation headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., Earlier post.).