MASON, OHIO - Cintas Corp. recently ordered 100 hybrid electric walk-in Ford vans, its first large-scale deployment of green technology, for use in its California vehicle fleet.
Read More →WHITE PLAINS, NY - Taking place June 2, the event is designed as a shared county service to keep local municipalities informed about vehicle safety, green and new technology, the latest equipment, and important operational and maintenance issues.
Read More →LOS ANGELES - During a recent press event, Governor Schwarzenegger sat in the i-MiEV and later spoke to a panel of reporters about the battery electric vehicle being representative of the technology necessary to tackle the sustainable transportation challenges facing California.
Read More →BEIJING, CHINA - BYD Co. Ltd. and Daimler AG on May 27 signed a contract creating a research and technology joint venture that will develop an electric vehicle for China.
Read More →SIOUX FALLS, SD - An executive with South Dakota-based ethanol producer POET is set to detail breakthroughs in cellulosic ethanol technology at the Sino-US Advanced Biofuels Forum in Beijing on Thursday, May 27.
Read More →WARREN, MI - More than half of the 1,300 patents filed by General Motors in 2009 are green innovations, illustrating the company's shifting emphasis in its research and development efforts.
Read More →WASHINGTON - The Department of Energy's Clean Cities initiative won the Golden Bullet Award on May 11 in recognition of its success in deploying alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Read More →VALENCIA, SPAIN - Ford Motor Co. said its Valencia plant in Spain will build the company's first hybrid models for European customers. The automaker will produce two advanced technology derivatives of the all-new five-seat Ford C-MAX compact model -- a full hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) and a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV).
Read More →PORTLAND, OR - Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) has secured more than 10,000 orders for new vehicles equipped with Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) emissions technology.
Read More →CHICAGO - With the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf set to hit dealer lots, 40 percent of consumers still feel they don't know enough about the technology to consider an electric vehicle for their next purchase, according to a new poll from Cars.com.
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