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Frito-Lay boosts electric fleet; 275 electric trucks by the end of 2012

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In May of this year, Frito-Lay reached a milestone of one million all-electric miles driven. The new all-electric trucks will operate from distribution centers located throughout California: Alameda, City of Industry, La Mirada, Manteca, San Diego, San Jose and Torrance.

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GM Will Apply Plug-in Hybrid Technology To One of Its Remaining Four Core Brands, Delivery Still in 2011

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Prototype Saturn Vue PHEV plugging in to a Coulomb Chargepoint ( earlier post ) in San Jose, CA. In a post on GM’s FastLane blog, Vice Chairman Tom Stephens said that the company will apply plug-in hybrid technology to one of the four core brands remaining after the restructuring: Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC.

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Velodyne launches VLS-128, the world’s highest resolution LiDAR for autonomous vehicles; successor to the HDL-64

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Founder and CEO David Hall invented the 360-degree solid-state hybrid LiDAR ten years ago to use and sell in the DARPA Grand Challenge. The first autonomous cars that successfully drove cross-country and another million miles were equipped with the HDL-64. Velodyne LiDAR, Inc.

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Azure Dynamics announces sales of 29 Transit Connect Electrics

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Azure is a provider of electric drive technology for light to medium-duty commercial fleet vehicles in North America and is the first authorized provider of electric and hybrid electric solutions on Ford’s light-and medium-duty commercial vehicles. Mission Valley Ford in San Jose, CA (2 units). Hawk Ford in Oak Lawn, IL.

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Ford Anticipates 10-25% Of Its Global Fleet to Be Electrified by 2020

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Currently (2010), electrified products (only hybrids at this point) represent 1% of Ford’s global fleet. Currently (2010), electrified products (only hybrids at this point) represent 1% of Ford’s global fleet. However, she noted, that assumes that a 100-mile range is acceptable to the customers. Meeting the transportation need.

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Navigant forecasts annual plug-in electric vehicle sales in N America to exceed 1.1M by 2024

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Navigant expects metro areas in California to show the largest PEV population growth, as the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, and San Diego areas are all within the top 10 metro markets for PEV sales. Other ZEV Program participating states are expected to see similar growth.

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CA Energy Commission awarding Wrightspeed $5.789M grant for retrofit range-extended electric powertrain for medium-duty commercial vehicles

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With its conventional diesel powertrain, the NPR averaged about 12 miles per gallon in testing with a metro drive cycle. With the Route Range-extended Electric Vehicle (REV) powertrain, under the same test conditions, Wrightspeed measured 25-40 miles per gallon (on a cost equivalent basis, drive cycle-dependent).

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