From Green Right Now Reports
King County Metro in Seattle has ordered up to 500 diesel-electric hybrid buses from Daimler Buses North America. The first year order includes 93 hybrids, and the transit service took options for up to 200 more buses.
Daimler says the first Orion VII diesel-electric hybrids will be delivered to Seattle beginning in mid-2010.
With the latest orders, Daimler Buses says it will have a total of more than 2,900 diesel-electric hybrid transit buses in revenue service or on order for various transit authorities throughout the U.S. and Canada – making it the largest hybrid provider worldwide.
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smart USA will plant trees in Illinois to mark its first-year US sales
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From Green right Now Reports
A year after its US arrival, smart USA Distributor LLC said today that it will plant a tree in recognition of each of the 24,622 smart fortwos sold in 2008 and for those sold through the remainder of 2009. The company said it will partner with American Forests and Daimler Financial Services to plant the trees in the Cache River State Natural Area of southern Illinois, about 150 miles southeast of St. Louis.
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Tags: · American Forests, Cache River State Natural Area, Daimler, Dave Schembri, Illinois, smart fortwo, Smart USA
Daimler will pilot car2go program in Austin
From Green Right Now Reports
Daimler has announced it will bring its car2go mobility concept to the U.S. by fall of this year. The first international pilot will start in Austin with an initial fleet of about 200 fuel-efficient smart fortwo cars.
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Tags: · Austin, car2go, Daimler, KVUE, smart fortwo
