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New York City adding 70 electric vehicles to fleet; launches EV educational push

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Mayor Bloomberg announces the addition of 70 new electric vehicles. New York City 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. Earlier post.)

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Ioxus Introduces 1,000-, 3,000- and 5,000-Farad Ultracapacitor Cells with Higher Power Densities

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Ioxus sees this series as serving smaller, golf-cart type vehicles and utility vehicles, as well as for engine starting, Hall said. The 3,000F unit has a volume 17% less than that of competitive products, with ESR again at part with higher capacitance products. Leakage current is 5% lower than competitive products.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

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The experiments we’re undertaking today will lead to an all-new model of transportation and mobility within the next 10 years and beyond. Fourteen of the 25 experiments are Ford-led research projects, and 11 are part of the company’s Innovate Mobility Challenge Series. Dynamic Social Shuttle, New York and London.

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National Drive Electric Week 2023 Recap: Let’s Give Them Something To Talk About

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Disappointed but undeterred, we went to work and launched National Drive Elect ric Week (originally called National Plug In Day), thinking we would have had a better chance of coverage h ad our parade been part of a nationwide observance. But, some good news comes via Consumer Reports: CR’s largest-ever national survey of U.S.

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Russian soldiers are turning to electric scooters in failed assaults againt Ukraine

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Dmytro Pavlenko-Kryzheshevskyi explained to the New York Times. For its part, Russia has also employed non-conventional vehicles, though to much lesser effect. For example, its golf cart-mounted soldiers fared much worse when attempting to storm Ukrainian positions last year. Its becoming a more common scene, Lt.

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How Ukraine assassinated a Russian general with an electric scooter

Baua Electric

He was reportedly responsible for the use ofthe poison gas chloropicrinduring Russias war with Ukraine, which the New York Times noted is classified as a war crime by the Chemical Weapons Convention. For its part, Russia has also employed non-conventional vehicles, though to much lesser effect.

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You Haven’t Seen Blue Until You’ve Seen San Andres

Baua Electric

Connecting with history The archipelago of San Andres and Providencia is more than 400 miles north of the mainland of Colombia, and closer to 100 miles east of Nicaragua, but thanks to a historical wrinkle that is still being ironed out, it is part of Colombia. I’d never driven a golf cart any significant distance, so when Ms.