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Valence Technology, Wrightbus Sign Multi-Year Li-ion Battery Supply Agreement

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has signed a multi-year supply agreement with Wrightbus, the United Kingdom’s leading independent supplier of hybrid buses for public transportation systems. With multiple Valence-powered Wrightbus hybrid buses already on roads in the UK and Ireland, this new agreement secures the relationship between the two companies through 2016.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

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And with that EV story— so last time I was home in Ireland, one of the stories was— so they had bought this fleet of buses to put in Dublin to replace these double-decker buses, electric double-deck, to help Ireland hit its carbon targets. volts is pretty common—and really sipping microamps of power through these circuits.

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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 Ford also recently announced it will partner with six leading energy suppliers across Europe to provide home charging wall box installation services and green energy tariffs for the UK and Ireland. hours using a commercial type-2 AC vehicle charger.

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Renault-Nissan Alliance and Electromotive to Collaborate on Charging Infrastructure

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The Alliance and Elektromotive signed a Memorandum of Understanding on studying ways to promote the use of electric vehicles and will share information on EV development and energy supply on a global scale. The Brighton-based company also exports Elektrobays to Sweden, Holland, Germany and Ireland.