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Half a Dozen More

Half a Dozen More

Half a Dozen Operators with a Million Trucks Join DoE’s National Clean Fleets Partnership Coca-Cola, Enterprise, General Electric, Ryder, Staples and Sylvania have signed on as members of the U.S. Energy Department’s National Clean Fleets Partnership,...
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300 Car2go eSmarts in San Diego

300 Car2go eSmarts in San Diego

‘Free-Floating’ EVs Daimler Car2Go e-Smart at Windansea Beach, La Jolla community, San Diego Daimler is roaring into the U.S. with its battery electric Smart cars, pledging to deploy 300 Fortwo vehicles this year as...
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Toshiba’s New 32-Bit Microcontrollers

Toshiba America Electronic Components is promoting 32-bit microcontrollers that are complaint with the new ISO 26262 safety standard. TAEC’s ARM Cortex brand TMPM350FDTFG and TMPM354F10TFG units are described as core-based devices “designed for use in automotive electronic...
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CrushShield for High Voltage Cables

CrushShield for High Voltage Cables

Federal-Mogul is promoting a product called CrushShield for high voltage cables, designed to help protect occupants of electric and hybrid electric vehicles in the event of a crash. CrushShield antishocker by Federal-Mogul The product “encases...
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Cow Product, Cow Power

Cow Product, Cow Power

42-Truck Indiana Over-the-Road CNG Fleet Will Haul Milk Using Biomethane from Cows A long-awaited, DoE ARRA-backed project using Indiana dairy-derived biomethane to fuel over-the-road trucks hauling milk – 90 million gallons per year – has come...
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Quantum PHEVs for Florida

Quantum PHEVs for Florida

Quantum Fuel Systems (NASDAQ:QTWW) has reported an $8.65 million purchase contract from Florida Power & Light, received on April 19, for its new Ford F150-based plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Quantum Technologies Ford F-150 PHEV drivetrain “The...
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Volume Rebates from Propel

Volume Rebates from Propel

Hard-charging Propel Fuels is launching a Volume Rebate Program for renewable ethanol and biodiesel it says is the first in the nation, with VRP-enrolled fleets earning tiered rebates for monthly purchases of 500 gallons or more....
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Smaller, Thus Bigger

Smaller, Thus Bigger

Westport, Long a Leader with Partner Cummins in Heavy NGVs, Stakes Out Position in Small Engines, Most Recently Via GM Pact Westport Innovations (Toronto:WPT), the acknowledged leader with joint venture partner Cummins in large engines for heavy...
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This Ain’t No Ponzi

This Ain’t No Ponzi

Shale Gas Boosters Fire Back at New York Times After Articles Say Claims for Methane Overblown The New York Times raised the ire of shale gas advocates as investigative pieces citing named and many unnamed sources,...
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Better Place Charges we mean FORGES Ahead

Better Place Charges we mean FORGES Ahead

Better Place has opened its first battery switch station in Denmark, where it plans to have 20 within the next nine months. “We have overcome the last barrier to the electric car’s commercial...
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