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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 to launch Focus BEV test fleet in the UK Sam Abuelsamid

The Focus-based electric car that Ford is developing with Magna for a 2011 introduction is not the only EV program in the company. Early next year, Ford will start testing a fleet of battery-powered ...

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 Vehicles, Enova partner up for zero-emission van, truck 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Smith Electric launches the Faraday in London, October 2005 Enova Systems, the Torrance, California company that we just featured for their work in Hawaii's EV scene, announced today that it has entered into a "significant production supply agreement" with Smith Electric Vehicles in the UK. For the ...

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