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After hooking up with Enova Systems for an electric drivetrain and with Tesla Motors for a battery pack, Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) has now teamed with Morgan Olson to create an appropriate walk-in van (WIV) body to wrap the entire package in. Dubbed the MT-EV, the new clean ...

A couple weeks ago, Remy International chief executive officer John Weber offered up his one-sided opinion regarding the shift towards in-house production of vital hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) components. As a discouraged Weber previously remarked:

That Daimler deal with Tesla Motors is defying early skepticism and starting to bear fruit in the shape of a boxy walk-in-van (WIV). The all-electric truck chassis we told you their subsidiary Freightliner ...

It seems as though the entry of newcomers Modec and Smith Electric Vehicles (and maybe even Boulder Electric Vehicles) into the North American electric truck market has prompted Freightliner to set about putting their own all-electric chassis together. To help speed things along, they have ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Plug_in_Hybrid_school_bus_gets_70_reduction_in_fuel_use'; Enova Systems has been collaborating with IC Bus for the past couple of years to build a series of plug-in hybrid school buses for testing purposes. Enova recently had an independent CARB-certified ...

Two of the first 19 hybrid school buses have just been delivered to Manatee County, Florida as part of the Plug-In Hybrid Electric School Bus Project. Designed to test the viability of the new buses, a hybrid and a control bus will travel the same route, alternating every two weeks, for a period of ...

Inside the Enova Hawaii garage. Click to enter gallery.Enova Systems, based in Torrance, California, is known for converting heavy-duty vans and buses to using fuel cell and hybrid powertrains (read previous ABG stories on Enova). In Hawaii, the Enova branch is also working on all-electric ...

Inside the E Vehicles garage. Click to enter high-resolution photo gallery.Hawaii has lots of sun for solar power generation, not a lot of long roads (except for on the aptly named Big Island, also known as the Island of Hawaii), and an environmentally conscious population. These are just a few of ...

Norway-based Th!nk Electric Vehicles was bought by Ford during Ford's mid-nineties buying spree and sold off a couple of years ago. Th!nk is still around and is working on new electric vehicles. Enova Systems has that they are partnering with Th!nk to supply the power control units (PCU) for the ...

IC Corporation is the largest manufacturer of commercial and school buses in North America. If you live anywhere that has schools and school buses you have almost undoubtedly seen their products. At the BusCon Expo in Chicago, IC is launching their new line of diesel hybrid buses. These hybrid ...