Boulder Electric Vehicle, which makes electric delivery trucks and work utility vehicles, leased a 28,000-square-foot facility and is tooling up the plant to eventually produce about 1,000 electric battery trucks per year, according to the mayor. The plant is expected to support 30 jobs in the first year. Chatsworth is a suburb of Los Angeles [...]
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NRG’s electric car charging network creating new jobs in California
May 1st, 2012 
Meme When California and NRG agreed to build new electric car charging infrastructure, it meant new jobs, new careers, and new job training programs, geared to training the workforce required to build and maintain infrastructure to support electric cars. Pinboard (MacAaron:tnev)
EVI Inc announces initiative to sell over 500 electric delivery trucks in California
March 31st, 2012 Meme Electric Vehicles International (EVI-INC) announced today a goal of deploying 500 electric delivery trucks in California over the next two years, piggy-backing on Gov. Jerry Brown’s executive order last week calling for the expansion of electric truck and car usage. Pinboard (MacAaron:tnev)
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Comments OffCalifornia settles energy crisis lawsuit, enabling NRG to build electric car charging network
March 24th, 2012 Meme California’s Gov. Jerry Brown today announced a settlement with NRG over its role in the California Energy Crisis, in turn NRG gets to own and operate a massive electric car charging network. Pinboard (MacAaron:tnev)
Ford Focus Electric approved for California HOV lane, $2,500 rebate
March 14th, 2012 Meme Two weeks ago, we brought you the news that the EPA certified the 2012 Ford Focus Electric as achieving an MPGe rating of a whopping 105 miles per gallon – making the Focus Electric one of most efficient vehicles sold in the US while also earning owners the right to drive alone in the California [...]
Posted in EV Meme Tags: $2500, approved, California, electric, Focus, ford, lane, rebate 2 Comments »California Testing Heavy-Duty Hybrid Earth Movers
January 29th, 2012 Meme California is readying emission testing for six heavy-duty diesel hybrids next year in a study to be conducted by the University of California Riverside. The state is looking to see how these hybrid construction machines save on emissions. The study will put half a dozen earth movers from Caterpillar and Komatsu (both pioneering hybrid systems [...]
