Ride sharing firm Opoli Technologies has joined hands with BYD Motors, a Chinese automobile, IT and new energy firm, for deploying 50 zero-emission e6 electric vehicles for its fleet in San Diego, US. Aimed to reduce traffic congestion as ...
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Zero-emission battery-electric buses firm Proterra has bagged the order for Proterra Catalyst buses from the twin Californian Central Valley cities - Stockton and Porterville - in the US, funded by San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution ...
Transportation for London (TFL) has commissioned China-based automobile maker BYD Company to replace the city's famous red double-decker buses with battery-powered electric versions. Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: "Many believed that ...
US-based regulated public utility firm San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) will put in place electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at up to 550 business and multi-family sites in the Californian region under its pilot program Electric ...
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Control systems maker Motiv Power Systems has opened a new manufacturing plant in Hayward, California, and recireceived $8.1m in grant from California Energy Commission (CEC) to commercialize its all-electric powertrain. With an annual ...
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The Renault-Nissan Alliance will supply a fleet of 200 electric vehicles (EVs) for the United Nation's COP21 climate conference to be held in Paris this November. The fleet, including Renault ZOE, Renault Fluence Z.E. sedan, Nissan Leaf, ...
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Ford Motor Company will begin making its London-based GoDrive car-sharing service available to the public, offering flexible, practical and affordable access to a fleet of cars for one-way journeys with easy parking throughout the city. ...
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Automobile manufacturers Nissan and BMW have joined hands for building a grid for charging stations to be used by electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) across South Africa. As part of the Memorandum of Understanding ...
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US-based Sentry Equipment has launched a new cap design to protect workers from exposure to poisonous gases and fluids in the petrochemical, chemical and nuclear industries. The new Sentry No-e's cap-on-cap design provides an ...
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Audi has announced its plans to launch an all-electric family-friendly zero-emission SUV in 2018. After launching its first all electric R8 e-tron car at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show, Audi Engineering chief Dr Ulrich Hackenberg revealed the ...
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Nissan has joined forces with Japan-based trading company Kanematsu to work with Japanese R&D management organization, New Energy Industrial Technology and Development Organization (NEDO) to encourage electric vehicles use in Northern ...
Renault Nissan Alliance CEO Carlos Ghosn has announced at the Mobile World Congress 2015 that company’s autonomous drive technology could be introduced by 2016. According to Ghosn, the first wave of autonomous drive technology will ...
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China, the world's largest new-car market, is expected to surpass the United States to become the world's largest market for electric vehicles with its dramatically increased sales since the second half of 2014, according to an expert at ...
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Zero-emission vehicle maker Proterra has announced an extended range battery system for its electric bus. With the launch of the TerraVolt XR extended-range battery, the buses can be configured to travel up to 180 miles between ...
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Nissan’s North American unit has entered into a five-year research and development partnership with NASA to develop autonomous vehicle systems for commercial application. Researchers from the car maker's Silicon Valley Research ...
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