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Mitsubishi Fuso Delivering Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid Trucks Outside of Japan for FIrst Time; Orders in Europe and Australia

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Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corporation (MFTBC) has sold ten Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid ( earlier post ) trucks to Ireland’s leading utility company, the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), in Dublin. ESB plans to use the vehicles for customer service and for infrastructure maintenance in Ireland.

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Siemens increases stake in ocean power specialist Marine Current Turbines to 45%

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The SeaGen turbine can be lifted to the surface for maintenance. MCT has already successfully implemented its first commercial-scale demonstrator project SeaGen in Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland. MW have been feeding power into the grid to supply about 1500 homes. Source: Marine Current Turbines. Click to enlarge.

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Ford Transit Custom Plug-In Hybrid available for order in Europe, deliveries by year-end

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hours using a domestic 240-volt 10-amp power supply, or 2.7 EV mode indicators, maintenance alerts and a warning when the vehicle is plugged into a charging point, appear on the instrument display cluster. A charging port located within the front bumper enables the new Transit Custom Plug-In Hybrid to be charged in 4.3

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

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The message above was sent through the first transatlantic telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Ireland, way back in 1858. million km of submarine cables (Figure 1) in service, ranging from a short 131 km cable between Ireland and the U.K. Installation and maintenance is easier to accomplish in shallow waters.

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Renault-Nissan Alliances Forms EV Partnership in Phoenix Metro Area; Beginning of a Phoenix-Tucson EV Charging Corridor

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MAG will provide a forum for Nissan and ECOtality to promote the deployment, operation and maintenance of the charging network. The Renault-Nissan Alliance has begun ZEV initiatives in Kanagawa Prefecture and Yokohama in Japan, as well as in Israel, Denmark, Portugal, Monaco, the UK, France, Switzerland and Ireland.

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Nissan forms partnership in Seattle

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Under the terms of the agreement, the partnership will develop plans to promote a charging infrastructure for electric vehicles as well as the deployment, operation and maintenance of a charging network. Nissan has agreed to supply electric vehicles in and around the Seattle metropolitan area.

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Nissan Forms Partnership in Raleigh, NC for EV Charging Network

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As part of the agreement, Nissan and its partners will develop plans to promote a charging infrastructure for EVs, as well as the deployment, operation and maintenance of a charging network. Nissan also has agreed to make available a supply of EVs to Progress Energy. and Seattle.

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