AeroVironment Inks Deal with Hawaii to Install Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles
Monrovia-based technology company AeroVironment Inc. announced a deal with Hawaii Thursday to install 320 electric charging docks throughout the state. The $820,000 deal is the latest in a string of key contracts for the company, which comes as more electric vehicles arrive to the marketplace and more states move to build an infrastructure to support them.


Jay Leno Installs An AeroVironment EV Charger For His Chevy Volt In His Big Dog Garage
Made in America: Electric Charging System

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Fortune Magazine: From Electric Cars To Military Ops
General Motors pulled the plug on its first electric car, but supplier AeroVironment used some of that experience to build a very different kind of vehicle for the U.S. military.

AeroVironment, a firm based in Monrovia, Calif., whose products include gear for electric, hydrogen, and hybrid cars, is applying its environmentally friendly research to a technology that at first blush might make some tree huggers tremble: a military drone that could be used to assist in battle.


AeroVironment Receives Award For Bay Area Electric Car Charging Stations
Hoping to spur the purchase and use of new electric vehicles, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is awarding $3.9 million to four California-based companies to boost installation of private and public charging stations around the region.

With Nissan rolling out the all-electric Leaf and Chevrolet selling plug-in hybrid Volt, the nine-county agency plans to fund 30 public fast-charge systems to extend the range of those and other electric vehicles, district representatives said.

It also plans to offer $700 rebates to the first 2,750 consumers who come on board to help fund personal residential charging equipment to new electric car owners.


It’s Electric: AV’s Home Charger featured in Mad Money interview with David Crane, CEO of NRG Energy
Mad Money interview with David Crane, CEO of NRG Energy and featuring AV's Electric Vehicle Charger.


First Nissan LEAF™ Delivered to Consumer
San Francisco Bay Area resident Olivier Chalouhi has become the first person in the world to take delivery of a Nissan LEAF all-electric vehicle. At a special presentation on Saturday at North Bay Nissan of Petaluma in California, Chalouhi, a 31-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur who was the first person in the U.S. to place a LEAF order, took possession of a black LEAF SL in what Nissan described as an historic event representing “the first delivery of an affordable, mass-market, all-electric car since the first days of the automotive era.”


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