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Mayor Bloomberg announces the addition of 70 newelectric vehicles. NewYorkCity is adding 70 electric vehicles to its fleet: 50 new Chevrolet Volts, 10 fully electric Ford Transit Connect cargo vans, and 10 new fully electric Navistar E-star utility trucks. Click to enlarge.
Chevrolet will join with Con Edison as part of a development and demonstration program to introduce electric vehicles to NewYorkCity. The arrangement will be announced at the NewYork Auto Show, where the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle with extended range will be on display.
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NewYork Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced a $19-million NewYork Truck Voucher Incentive Program to encourage the purchase of battery-electric commercial trucks as well as other energy-efficient transportation, including hybrid and CNG (compressed natural gas) trucks.
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Con Edison has begun using the batteries on five Lion Electricelectric school buses to provide power to its customers, marking the first time in NewYork State that electricity has flowed from buses into a utility’s grid. The upfront cost of electric school buses is higher than diesel buses. Earlier post.).
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Smith Electric Vehicles announced that Smith will open an electric vehicle manufacturing facility in Chicago. Chicago will be Smith’s third location in the United States, joining the headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., and a manufacturing facility in NewYorkCity.
Chevrolet plans to produce 10,000 Volt extended range electric vehicles by the end of the 2011 calendar year, and an additional 30,000 Volts during the 2012 calendar year, according to Volt Marketing Director Tony DiSalle, who made the announcements during a live video webcast 1 July. Tags: Electric (Battery) Hybrids. Earlier post.).
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in cooperation with FedEx Express, will carry out real-world driving tests of the battery-electric commercial vehicle, e-NV200, in the Yokohama area beginning in mid-July. in Japan and British Gas in Europe. It was chosen as the base vehicle for NewYork’s Taxi of Tomorrow—the exclusive taxi of NewYorkCity.
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Revel CEO Frank Reig called out “shortsighted bureaucracy and entrenched interests” for blocking the Tesla Model Y NewYorkCity taxi fleet that the company planned to launch. Tesla CEO Elon Musk also responded to the NYC TLC’s decision to block Revel’s all-electric taxi fleet.
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East Coast metropolitan statistical areas (J), with a larger map of NewYork metropolitan area (K, outer line) and NewYorkCity (K, inner line) highlight the consistent pattern of relatively low GHG urban core cities and high GHG suburbs. Credit: ACS, Jones and Kammen. Click to enlarge.
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