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    Smith Electric Vehicles wins bulk of UK government EV order
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    Smith Electric Vehicles has scored another win in the UK plug-in vehicle market. The Department of Transport has completed the first phase of a program to help purchase commercial electric vehicles (EV) at prices that are subsidized so that the initial cost is the same for the EVs as for gas or ...

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    Smith Electric Vehicles US offers to buy out its UK parent
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    Smith Electric Vehicles Newton – Click above for high-res image gallery
    Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. has made an offer to the Tanfield Group to purchase Smith Electric Vehicles. Tanfield is a minority shareholder in the U.S. company along with a group of private investors. Smith Electric ...

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    Ford, Smith Electric prepping ten Transit vans for test fleet in Germany
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    The U.S. will be getting Ford's small, all-electric Transit Connect Electric utility van by the end of this year. Over in Germany, ten units of the larger Transit van will be converted to run on electric power by Smith Electric Vehicles for Ford's colognE-mobil project, which is already ...

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    GSA approves Smith Electric Vehicles for U.S. government agency purchases
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    Smith Electric Vehicles Newton – Click above for high-res image gallery
    Now that Smith Electric Vehicles is assembling its Newton electric truck here in the United States, it needs to line up some customers for them. A big potential pool has opened up with U.S. government agencies and the ...

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    Roy Stanley named chairman of Smith Electric Vehicles US
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    Smith electric vehicles Newton - click above for high-res image gallery
    Smith Electric Vehicles US has nameed Roy Stanley as its chairman of the board. Stanley is also the founder and former chairman of the Tanfield Group, the parent company of Smith's UK parent and 49 percent owner of the U.S. ...

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    Smith Electric Vehicles to partner with AM General on USPS EV
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    USPS Long Life Vehicle - Wikimedia Commons
    In the same Tanfield Group trading statement where the company commented on the termination of its agreement with Ford it revealed a new collaboration with AM General. Smith and AM General are developing a prototype battery-powered version of the Long ...

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    Tanfield Group comments on end of Ford Transit Connect BEV deal
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    Ford Transit Connect BEV - click above for high-res image gallery
    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, ...

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    Smith Electric Vehicles starts U.S. production in Kansas City
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    Smith electric vehicles Newton - click above for high-res image gallery
    Smith Electric Vehicles has just launched low volume assembly of its Newton plug-in delivery truck in Kansas City. However, it's not clear how long Smith will keep building trucks there. Smith currently has 14 people working ...

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    VIDEO: Fortune 500 firms field first fuel-free freight fetchers
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    What do Coca-Cola, Staples, Frito-Lay, AT&T, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) all have in common? We're not even going to make you work for this one: they all just took delivery of electric ...

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

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