All Cars Electric (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Tanfield Group, the parent company of Smith Electric Vehicles, recently announced plans to work with AM General to develop a battery powered postal delivery vehicle.The collaborative effort between Smith Electric and AM General will focus on producing an EV version of the Long Life Vehicle in use by the U.S. Postal Service. The LLV was ...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in USPS Long Life Vehicle - Wikimedia Commons In the same Tanfield Group trading statement where the company commented on the termination of its agreement with Ford it revealed a new collaboration with AM General. Smith and AM General are developing a prototype battery-powered version of the Long Life Vehicle used by the US Postal Service. The LLV developed by Grumman in the 1980s...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Ford Ford Transit Connect BEV - click above for high-res image gallery We learned from Ford on Friday that it and Smith Electric Vehicles had mutually agreed to terminate their partnership to produce the Transit Connect BEV next year and Ford would instead go with Azure Dynamics. The Tanfield Group, parent company of Smith also released a trading statement that commented...
TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
In a surprising decision, Ford Motor Company and Smith Electric Vehicles US have agreed to terminate the development project of an electric car-derived van that would have been based on the Transit Connect. The UK-based Tanfield Group, Smith Electric Vehicles US’s parent company, announced that due to growing demand for its production ready Smith Newton, the [...]
Just Auto (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Britain's Tanfield Group associate company Smith Electric Vehicles (SEV) US and Ford have agreed to terminate their Transit Connect EV project as forecast volumes did not justify the investment requirement.
Financial24 (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
Says to get 1.6 mln stg from government for the project To develop 16 vehicles under the programme Shares up 3 pct June 24 - Britain's Tanfield Group Plc will be eligible to receive government funding of 1.6 million pounds to develop ele ...
New Northumbria (Free subscription) | 23/06/2009
A major step forward has been taken to promote electric cars in this region. A consortium, including Nissan, in Sunderland, and Smith Electric Vehicles, part of the North-East based Tanfield Group, have been given government support to put a fleet of electic cars on the road next year. Another opportunity for our region to get a foot on the ladder of a new industry. Funding Electric cars Comments
Earth2Tech (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Ford Motor announced today that its first electric vehicle will be based on its Transit Connect compact van. But Ford isn’t going it alone on this project, it’s working with the UK’s Smith Electric Vehicles on the electric conversion. Part of the publicly-traded Tanfield Group, Smith Electric has already been working with Ford on electric versions [...] Related Posts GigaOM: Open...
TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
The UK-based Tanfield Group, the parent company of Smith Electric Vehicles, has formed a joint venture with the newly formed US-based Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation (SEVUS). Having originally announced its plans to establish a major production facility in the US in 2007 with the intention to produce up to 10,000 trucks per year from 2010, [...]
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , USA Click on the Smith Newton for a hi-res gallery After scuttling an earlier plan to build trucks in the U.S. , a new Tanfield Group announcement reverses that reversal. The company has just incorporated Smith Electric Vehicles (SEV) US Corp. and expects them to begin building copies of the Newton (above) in the U.S. sometime this year. In a shrewd move, Tanfield will hold...
Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
UK-based Tanfield Group, the parent of Smith Electric Vehicles, is forming a joint venture in North America with the newly-formed US-based Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation (SEVUS). SEVUS plans to begin production of Smith electric vehicles during 2009. Smith Electric...
Karen Allen (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
As recession looks set to officially hit next quarter and jobs have already been lost at the Tanfield Group in Washington, Tyne & Wear new jobs are needed more than ever in the North East. So I was encouraged when I read Tech Mahindra, an Indian Technology company, are to launch a new operation in Jarrow which will create 500 jobs. Development Agency, One North East have very generously given Tech...
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