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Kevin Day is a Nissan Leaf owner. And this is his story. A brief documentary, titled "The Electric Vehicle Story" was filmed for entry into Zooppa's "Changing Your City for the Better" contest sponsored by Siemens. The film, as told by Day, offers a first-hand account of what it's like to own a ...

Swedish automaker Volvo has teamed up with German engineering conglomerate Siemens to jointly advance the development of electric vehicles through an extensive strategic cooperation that will focus on electrical drive technology, electronics and vehicle charging units. The first of Volvo's ...

German firm Siemens has received a major order for its recently launched 22-kW Charge CP700A plug-in vehicle charging station. The order comes from Portugal as part of the nation's Mobi.E electric-mobility consortium. Siemens says this deal lays the framework for delivery of up to 300 of its ...

Siemens, along with Diamond Aircraft and EADS, have built a custom aircraft equipped with a series hybrid propulsion system. The trio unveiled the two-seat airplane, dubbed the DA36 E-Star, at the 2011 Paris Air Show in late June. Siemens says the aircraft's revolutionary series hybrid technology ...

At Hannover Messe 2011, the world's "foremost technology event," Siemens presented one of its projects called "Contactless Charging of Battery-Electric Vehicles." Developed in conjunction with BMW, Siemens' inductive charging system will be tested under real-world conditions by the German ...

Siemens is readying the launch of its 22 kW Charge CP700A plug-in vehicle charger in Europe. The German firm claims that the CP700A can charge up a typical electric car's battery pack to full capacity in less than 60 minutes. The CP700A can charge battery-powered vehicles at different rates. For ...

Buses equipped with Siemens' series hybrid drive system, Elfa, reportedly consume one-third less diesel fuel than conventional coaches. The Elfa system is unique in that the bus' diesel engine, which would typically send its power through a transmission to the rear wheels, drives a generator to ...

Warsaw's metro system is going green in 2012. That's when the city will introduce new subway cars, dubbed the Siemens Inspiro, that will be 97.5 percent recyclable. Not only that, but the system will also be more energy efficient. The "weight optimized chassis" will be built out of aluminum, ...

Siemens AG, Europe's largest engineering company, is reportedly close to inking an electric vehicle infrastructure deal with an undisclosed city in China. The engineering firm is said to be in talks with several Chinese cities – including Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing – and is ...