Nissan Signs Raleigh, N.C., to its Growing EV Charging Partnership Network
By John O'Dell May 1, 2009
Like a stream of electrons, they just keep coming.
Nissan, which plans to launch a battery-electric vehicle in the U.S. next year and is urging government agencies and utility companies to help it develop an EV charging infrastructure, said this morning that it is adding Raleigh, N.C., to its list of partners.
It's not the city government this time, but a regional utility - Progress Energy - and a non-profit agency called Advanced Energy, that have signed an agreement with the Renault-Nissan Alliance to promote and help develop, deploy, operate and maintain a network of electric vehicle charging stations in the city.
The Raleigh coalition is the eight locale in the U.S. to sign up with the alliance (which works through Nissan here as its French partner, Renault doesn't operate in the states).
Others are the states of Tennessee and Oregon; the cities of San Diego, Calif., and Seattle, Wash.; California's Sonoma County, and the metropolitan government associations representing the Phoenix and Tucson regions in Arizona.
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