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    GM Ventures capital companies fund Proterra for electric-bus development

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    General Motors has been known to churn out some pretty green vehicles before, including the famed Chevrolet Volt. Now, GM Ventures’ capital company Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers has pooled in bucks with electric bus maker Proterra for the development … Continue reading3

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    MTA phases out diesel buses for CNG, hybrids and electrics

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    Using the public transport system in Los Angeles County will now be a much greener affair, taken that the MTA, the Metropolitan Transport Authority is keen on phasing out all its old set of wheels making place for shiny new … Continue reading3

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    Electricity powered EcoRide BE35 to hit Southern California streets soon

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    Southern California will now play home to three new electric vehicles that will do the rounds on the streets soon. We’re talking about three clean, green, electric buses, purchased by Foothill Transit, a public transportation agency serving San Gabriel and … Continue reading3

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    Montreal’s entire bus fleet to go green and clean by 2025

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    ’s mass transit system goes greener by the day and will be at its greenest by 2025. The entire bus fleet, about 1,300 of them in all, will go electric by the time 2025 looms. And if all goes as … Continue reading3

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    The luxurious electricity-powered Superbus

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    At first glance, this vehicle reminds us of a futuristic stretch-limo. The Dutch students building this vehicle prefer to call it the “Superbus” though. This all-electric vehicle can carry 23 passengers and has a body of aluminum and carbon fiber. … Continue reading3

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    PURES concept solar powered electric buses purify air as they travel

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    PURES bus is an award winning design concept from Korea. The main idea behind this design is that since we have now polluted the planet enough with the vehicles on the road why not turn those vehicles into air filters … Continue reading3

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    Three organizations step in to work on the much awaited Electric bus project in Japan

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    Japan had decided to launch its first EV (Electric Vehicle) bus by 2012 and the first prototype is set to release by 2010. To give momentum to the project, Kanagawa Prefecture, Isuzu, Toshiba, Tpeco and Keio University stepped in to … Continue reading3

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    Fully electric bus Solo EV launched by Optare

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    Cars, bikes, trucks and now electric buses. UK-based Optare PLC has introduced the Solo EV, a full battery-electric bus available in lengths of 8.1m, 8.8m and 9.5m and widths of either 2.3m or 2.5m. The buses feature an Enova Systems … Continue reading3

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