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Nissan Unveils 100% Electric Reefer

Posted by Benji Jerew in Electric Vehicles on January 25, 2013

In order to get goods from place to place, especially temperature sensitive goods such as food items, delivery drivers use refrigerated trucks, reefers, to get the job done. Various manufacturers have turned to electrification to reduce emissions of some of their local delivery vehicles, typically pure electric trucks, which only drive a limited route and [...]

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VIA Motors’ Big Hybrid Truck Lineup Revealed at 2013 NAIAS

Posted by Benji Jerew in Hybrid vehicles on January 16, 2013

Bob Lutz, General Motors [GM] ex-vice chairman, is now heading up efforts to produce a series of extended-range electric vehicles [eREV] that are nothing like the Chevy Volt he championed whilst in the GM circle. Recently, he mentioned he should have started bigger, and bigger is what he’s done at VIA Motors. No one disputes [...]

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Bob Lutz – VIA Motors’ Full Size X-Truck Gets 100 MPGe, “Makes Prius Look Like a Gas-Guzzler”

Posted by Benji Jerew in Electric Vehicles on January 13, 2013

Would we ever have expected to hear the words “monster truck” and “100 MPGe” used in the same article, much less describing one vehicle? Apparently this kind of comparison is perfectly fine for Bob Lutz, former General Motors Vice Chairman, and he used it in a video sneaking a peak at the new VIA Motors [...]

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Siemens to Test eHighway, an Electric Heavy Truck Powering System in California

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles on May 17, 2012

Siemens has been prototyping lately something that’s not new, but which can ultimately do to highways what electric buses (also called trolleys) have done to European cities – cleaning them of dirty diesel smoke. The company is converting heavy trucks into hybrid and putting an overhead power line along the highway so that they can [...]

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Via Motors and PG&E Unveiling Extended-Range Electric Trucks, Vans and SUVs

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles on January 10, 2012

GM seems to have hit the right button when it comes to electric cars, or, at least, extended range EVs. Or so thinks Bob Lutz, former GM executive, who now joined VIA Motors, a company whose aim is to rebuild America’s most loved trucks, SUVs and vans, but propel them by an electric motor instead [...]

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Nissan e-NT400 Atlas Concept: a 2-Ton Electric Truck Using The Leaf Drivetrain

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles on November 1, 2011

An interesting application for EVs and, generally speaking, electric motors is that of heavy transportation. For that purpose, Nissan has equipped a 2-ton truck (the Atlas F24) with the electric drivetrain currently found on the Leaf EV. The results have been pretty amazing. The e-NT400 Atlas Concept, as they called it, managed to accelerate faster [...]

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Posts Tagged electric truck

Nissan Unveils 100% Electric Reefer

VIA Motors’ Big Hybrid Truck Lineup Revealed at 2013 NAIAS

Bob Lutz – VIA Motors’ Full Size X-Truck Gets 100 MPGe, “Makes Prius Look Like a Gas-Guzzler”

Siemens to Test eHighway, an Electric Heavy Truck Powering System in California

Via Motors and PG&E Unveiling Extended-Range Electric Trucks, Vans and SUVs

Nissan e-NT400 Atlas Concept: a 2-Ton Electric Truck Using The Leaf Drivetrain

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