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Smith Electric Vehicles Providing 10 Electric Vans to Ford of Europe for German Trials

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The Smith Edison is a pure electric version of the Ford Transit van, powered by lithium-ion batteries. Ford of Europe will deliver the final vehicles to all these clients and is responsible for their technical maintenance and service during the project. Tags: Brief. Ford is one of four partners in the colognE-mobil project.

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KLM Testing MDI AirPod Compressed Air Cars at Schiphol; UC Berkeley Study Finds Compressed Air Cars Significantly Less Efficient than Battery Electric Vehicles

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One of the AirPods is a cargo version adapted to transport parts and maintenance equipment at Schiphol-Center and the other is for personnel transport at Schiphol-Oost. The core of MDI’s work is a piston engine powered by the expansion of electronically injected compressed air. Earlier post.). Video of the AirPod at Schiphol.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Newsweek ).

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