This years conference runs from January 25th to the 28th at the Washington DC Convention center. EDTA’s Conference & Annual Meeting features industry leaders who are building the advanced vehicles and fueling infrastructure of an electrified transportation sector. The conference will offer the industry’s roadmap for an electric drive future; distinguished speakers will provide insight [...]
Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), a subsidiary of ECOtality, Inc., a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, announced that it has officially signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy for a grant of exactly $99.8 million to undertake the largest deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructure in history.
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Nissan
Dept. of Energy Grant Helps Ready Markets for Zero Emissions
The U.S. Department of Energy today announced a grant for the largest deployment of electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructure ever undertaken. Nissan is supporting the lead grant applicant, Electric Transportation Engineering Corp. (eTec), by pledging to make available up to 1,000 Nissan LEAF zero-emission [...]
Daimler Bus
Daimler Buses North America announced today that they have recently received orders for more than 300 transit buses, motorcoaches, and shuttle buses. The biggest contract was awarded by the mass transit company King County Metro in Seattle, which ordered 93 of the extremely environmentally friendly Orion VII diesel-electric hybrid buses for delivery in [...]
TGI
Breakthrough could reduce cost for algal fuel production
SEATTLE (July 27, 2009) Bioscience firm Targeted Growth (TGI) today announced it has developed a way to increase the lipid content of cyanobacteria by approximately 400 percent. This discovery will dramatically increase the oil yield per acre, decreasing the cost of algae production and helping algae based [...]
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