Smith Electric Vehicles

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Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. unveils first commercial vehicles - Kansas City Business Journal:

Later this quarter, Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. is expected to begin producing the Smith Newton locally, and starting next year, it is scheduled to begin assembling a battery-electric version of the new Transit Connect light-duty vehicle made by Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F).

Smith Electric Vehicles - Case Studies

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Re*Move: Driving an electric vehicle (EV) - what's it like?

White van man likes it.

Critically, in the small delivery vehicle market, this should lead to safer, more aware drivers, who have fewer accidents. The proof of that particular pudding will be in the eating, when these vehicles go on sale in the US next year. But Smith report that of the drivers on its existing fleets who’ve made the jump from gasoline to electric drive, not one now wants to switch back to an internal combustion engine. From a group of drivers who are notoriously hard to please, that’s the best endorsement going.

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But Smith report that of the drivers on its existing fleets who’ve made the jump from gasoline to electric drive, not one now wants to switch back to an internal combustion engine. From a group of drivers who are notoriously hard to please, that’s the best endorsement going.

Once you go Electric you will never go back!

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Anybody else get the feeling Mike Payette is a Tesla customer?

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http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/elect...ric-truck.html

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The U.S. Department of Energy is awarding a Kansas City maker of electric vehicles an additional $22 million to help with the development of zero-emission trucks and research their effectiveness.
After announcing the grant during a news conference Wednesday at Smith Electric Vehicles Corp.'s assembly plant, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said the research — one of several such efforts under way nationally — could help "grease the skids for a major government contract."
The grant, which comes from stimulus funds set aside for the advancement of next-generation batteries and electric vehicles, increases the total the U.S.-British partnership has received from the Energy Department to $32 million. The company previously received a $10 million federal grant.

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A little footage from the Smith Electric plant.

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Obama to tout battery power in Mo.

President will visit electric truck firm that got $32M grant