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GE opens innovation centre for alternative fuel vehicles and solutions

GE Capital Fleet Services has announced the opening of its Vehicle Innovation Centre, to provide businesses, industry groups and researchers with first-hand experience of alternative fuel vehicles and enabling GE technologies. Showcasing the latest in a growing array of alternative fuel vehicles in electric, natural gas, propane, hydrogen and other formats, the centre gives GE’s commercial customers the opportunity to learn about and test drive numerous alternative fuel cars and trucks in a single location
June 1, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
RSS4159 GE Capital Fleet Services has announced the opening of its Vehicle Innovation Centre, to provide businesses, industry groups and researchers with first-hand experience of alternative fuel vehicles and enabling GE technologies.

Showcasing the latest in a growing array of alternative fuel vehicles in electric, natural gas, propane, hydrogen and other formats, the centre gives GE’s commercial customers the opportunity to learn about and test drive numerous alternative fuel cars and trucks in a single location with assistance from GE’s fleet, transportation, energy and advanced technology experts. Located on the campus of GE’s fleet management business headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, the centre features a private half-mile driving course and a vehicle centre that includes alternative fuel vehicles from 20 automotive manufacturers. With 6,000 square feet of classrooms and showrooms, the centre also allows visitors access to a variety of products and solutions from GE’s ecomagination portfolio, including solutions for the smart grid, electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, compressed natural gas (CNG) in a box, fuel savings mobile applications, and other advanced energy and infrastructure technologies.

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