Toyota’s consistency as a green company has been confirmed by a third successive top ranking in the annual Best Global Green Brands report. This report was published June 12 by international brand consultancy Interbrand. Interestingly, automotive brands make up 50 percent of this year’s top ten. The report gauges the gap between public perception of
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ChargePoint, Inc. announced June 11 the completion of its ChargePoint America Program with more than 4,600 shipments and installations of its home, public and commercial EV charging ports. In May 2010, ChargePoint was awarded a $15 million dollar matching grant funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Transportation Electrification Initiative administered by
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The new Nissan Leaf will show up in Camada with a new base trim level and a revised price. Nissan has announced that Canadian pricing for the new 2013 Nissan Leaf will start at a Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $31,698 for the newly-added S grade. This makes the Leaf S the lowest priced
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Nissan’s Leaf has now doubled its Canadian sales year-to-date, when compared to May 2012. The Leaf found 31 buyers during the month of May 2013 in comparison to 23 in May 2012; this brings the 2013 year-to-date sales of Nissan’s electric car to 235 units, which represents a 100.9 percent increase in comparison with the
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Echo Automotive, Inc. announced end of May it has joined Calstart, North America’s advanced transportation technologies consortium, with the goal of accelerating awareness and adoption of bolt-on hybrid solutions. Echo is a developer of technologies enabling the cost-effective conversion of existing vehicles into hybrids and plug-in hybrids, Calstart is described by Echo as an industry
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Some people may never know what spurred it, but they may see new cars communicating with them and other functions following this acquisition. Nuance Communications announced it has signed an agreement with Tweddle Group to acquire the Tweddle Connect business. Tweddle Connect is an application and content service delivery platform for in-car infotainment systems, including
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Automotive analyst DesRosiers revealed that in 2012, the costs of operating a passenger vehicle in Canada rose at the lowest rate recorded in three years. Amongst the highlights of DesRosiers Automotive Consultants’ findings is the fact total operating costs increased by just 2.2 percent last year, down considerably from the 10.6 percent gain noted in
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ECOtality, Inc. has announced the summer launch of Blink HQ, its new family of electric vehicle (EV) charging products for the home. The Blink HQ suite of products is adding two new programmable Level 2 home chargers to consumers’ charging options; the first to launch is a 30-Amp home charger with delayed start options to
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Zipcar, Inc. announced yesterday the expansion of its car sharing network to the City of Minneapolis. With this launch, Minneapolis becomes Zipcar’s 21st major metropolitan market. The new Zipcar program will provide, according to the company, the Minneapolis community with access to 40 vehicles located in convenient locations throughout the City, including Dinkytown, Downtown, Loring
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The Ford Fiesta was Europe’s best-selling small car in March and for the first three months of 2013, according to the latest figures from JATO Dynamics. European customers bought Fiestas at a rate of one every 100 seconds during the first quarter for 2013 – 41,600 in March, and 77,800 total in the first three
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