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Tanfield Group comments on end of Ford Transit Connect BEV deal

We learned from Ford on Friday that it and Smith Electric Vehicles had mutually agreed to terminate their partnership to produce the Transit Connect BEV next year and Ford would instead go with Azure Dynamics. The Tanfield Group, parent company of Smith also released a trading statement that commented on the matter. According to Tanfield, the projected volumes of the TC in the short to medium term did not justify the investment required at this time. There seems to be much stronger demand for the larger Newton delivery van and Tanfield ... Read more →

Death Star goes electric: AT&T gets first Smith Newton for expanding alt-fuel fleet Sam Abuelsamid

After announcing earlier this year that it would spend over half a billion dollars over the next decade to put 15,000 alternative fuel vehicles into its fleet, AT&T has added its first ...

Ford confirms Transit Connect EV with Smith Electric for 2010 Sam Abuelsamid

Ford has now confirmed that the new Transit Connect small van will form the basis for its first new battery electric vehicle that will launch in the second half of 2010. Ford is very excited about ...

Bad economy prompts Smith Electric vehicles to curtail expansion Sam Abuelsamid

Even though the British Tanfield Group that manufactures Smith electric trucks has a product that should be seeing growing demand in a time of record oil prices, the overall economic malaise is ...

Smith Electric may add battery power Ford Transit Connect Sam Abuelsamid

England's Smith Electric Vehicles already produces a battery-powered version of Ford's big European transit van. It now looks like they may soon add a new one based on the compact Transit Connect. ...

Tanfield Group comments on end of Ford Transit Connect BEV deal 25 days ago on Autoblog Green

We learned from Ford on Friday that it and Smith Electric Vehicles had mutually agreed to terminate their partnership to produce the Transit Connect BEV next year and Ford would instead go with Azure Dynamics. The Tanfield Group, parent company of Smith also released a trading statement that ...

Death Star goes electric: AT&T gets first Smith Newton for expanding alt-fuel fleet 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

After announcing earlier this year that it would spend over half a billion dollars over the next decade to put 15,000 alternative fuel vehicles into its fleet, AT&T has added its first electric vehicle. The telecommunications giant is one of six big companies adding the Smith Electric ...

Ford confirms Transit Connect EV with Smith Electric for 2010 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Ford has now confirmed that the new Transit Connect small van will form the basis for its first new battery electric vehicle that will launch in the second half of 2010. Ford is very excited about electric vehicles and we first learned that Ford planned to introduce a Transit Connect EV when the ...

Bad economy prompts Smith Electric vehicles to curtail expansion 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Even though the British Tanfield Group that manufactures Smith electric trucks has a product that should be seeing growing demand in a time of record oil prices, the overall economic malaise is hitting the bottom line. Battery powered Smith trucks are used primarily by commercial customers and ...

Smith Electric may add battery power Ford Transit Connect 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

England's Smith Electric Vehicles already produces a battery-powered version of Ford's big European transit van. It now looks like they may soon add a new one based on the compact Transit Connect. The electric Transit Connect may debut in the UK by the end of 2008 and will likely cost twice as much ...


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