US Military Eyeballs Super-Sporty Electric Vehicles For All-Terrain Duty
The US Army Corps of Engineers is taking a closeup look at sporty new electric vehicles for disaster response and humanitarian aid.
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Dfens eMissions Electric Bushmaster & Electric Military ATVs
Electrification on the battlefield is a vision of Dfens eMissions. Watching this video, you might think you are in a video game, and the soldiers are playing with children’s toys. But this is real. And all these machines are interconnected and electric. They are not on a mission, but an … [continued]
Canoo Delivers Modular Light Tactical Vehicle To US Army
Canoo has delivered the first Light Tactical Vehicle to the US Army for evaluation and testing.
US Military Will Get Thousands More EVs As SPIDERS Web Grows
We were pretty impressed when the Department of Defense launched a $20 million leasing program for alternative fuel vehicles earlier this year, but that only involved a mere 500 vehicles. Our friends over at Navigant Research are predicting that DoD will obtain 92,000 more by 2020, with most of them … [continued]
U.S. Military Bets $20 Million On 500 Electric Vehicles For EV-To-Grid Initiative
Among the many (many, many) sustainable energy programs recently launched by the U.S. military, the Defense Department’s new military electric-vehicles-to-grid initiative is especially worth noting. With the announcement of a $20 million, 500-vehicle leasing program soon to get underway, in one fell swoop it’s going to accelerate several major trends that … [continued]
LA Air Force Base Gets Solar Panels and Electric Vehicles, Too
Solar powered military installations are nothing new but there is a twist to the solar arrays being installed at Los Angeles Air Force Base, because LA AFB is also booting out its old gas guzzling general purpose vehicles in favor of a fleet of electric vehicles, making it the first federal facility of any kind to replace an entire fleet with EV’s.
