Posts Tagged ‘electric van’

  • Ford Transit Connect Electric Goes to Europe in 2011
    Ford Motor Company announced on Monday it will begin selling the Ford Transit Connect electric van in Europe beginning in late summer 2011. Ford’s relationship with Michigan-based Azure Dynamics is already well established in North America and is now extending to Europe. Ford will make the shells of the Transit Connect Electric vans at a factory in Kocaeli, Turkey,...
    by at May 3rd, 2010 at 01:05 pm
  • Allied Vehicles launches Two New Electric Vans
    Allied Vehicles has launched two new electric vans and people carriers designed to help companies continue their urban deliveries without contributing to inner city pollution. The eBipper van and ePartner vans and cars provide zero emissions transport, combined with a practical payload and load area based on the already successful Peugeot Bipper, Partner and Tepee models. All...
    by at April 15th, 2010 at 10:04 am
  • Electric Mercedes Vito Passes Cold Weather Endurance Test
    The prototype of the Mercedes-Benz Vito with battery-electric drive has successfully undertook and passed a series of the harshest winter tests of up to minus 30 degrees during both the day and night near the polar circle. Despite being limited to a top speed of 80 km/h, the Vito with electric drive must nevertheless also pass all of the tests which a combustion-engined...
    by at April 9th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
  • Mercedes Unveils Vito Electric Van
    Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the prototype of a Vito electric van at a recent EU Competitiveness Council meeting held in Spain. During the event, European ministers of economic affairs met to discuss issues relating to the economic viability of future technologies. Assembly of the electric Vito is being integrated directly into standard production and marks the start of...
    by at February 24th, 2010 at 11:02 am