Latest World Electric Vehicle Association Stories
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the Electric Drive Transportation Association: WHEN: Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 2:00 PM (immediately following keynote address) WHERE: Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt Vernon Pl NW, Washington, DC 20001 WHAT: EDTA President Brian Wynne will participate during the Public Policy Days at the Washington Auto Show, promoting battery, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell electric drive...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Brian Wynne, president of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA), issued the following statement in response to today's announcement about Johnson Controls purchasing A123 Systems' automotive business assets: "Consolidation is an expected market force in all emerging industries, especially one as dynamic as the global electric drive market. Advanced battery technology powers the electric drive industry, increasing the...
PITTSBURGH, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems today introduced its latest FXT Series Edge filer, designed to bring the benefits of NAS Optimization to remote office environments by allowing companies to centralize resources and reduce the amount of infrastructure at remote locations while providing the ability to run mission-critical applications outside of the data center and across a WAN without performance degradation. (Logo:...
PITTSBURGH, June 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems has been selected as a winner of the Tech Awards Circle, taking Silver in the Enterprise Hardware category for the Avere Edge Filer. Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers/journalists from nominations based on a broad range of achievements - from product and technology innovations to talented executive leadership and engineering innovators. (Logo:...
PITTSBURGH, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems today announced that a company executive will be participating in a panel discussion entitled "Analyst Perspective: Do I Really Need a 100 Percent Flash Array? Why?" at SNW Spring 2012 at the Dallas Omni Hotel April 2-5. In addition, Avere is offering several class sessions in the conference's Hands-On Lab Program, "Storage Implications for Server Virtualization." Avere products will be on display at Booth #505. (Logo:...
SEATTLE, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems' FXT Series has established new performance standards and bested former benchmark leaders NetApp and EMC in the SPECsfs2008 NFS benchmark test. Test results show across-the-board superior results for Avere in throughput, latency and footprint, clearly demonstrating the dramatic impact its NAS optimization products have on scaling application performance at a fraction of the cost and space of legacy NAS solutions. (Logo:...
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems today announced that it will be exhibiting its line of FXT appliances at SIGGRAPH 2011, the 38th annual international convention and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques, in booth 150 of the Convention & Exhibition Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, August 7-11. Avere will also be co-sponsoring the Studio SysAdmins Birds-of-a-Feather session on August 9th from 1:00 to 3:00pm. Presentations will be given by...
America's largest motor club demonstrates leadership in electric vehicle industry with announcement of nation's first ready-for-deployment mobile EV charging solution ORLANDO, Fla., June 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AAA, the nation's largest motor club, presented to the membership of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) today that it has a fully functioning electric vehicle mobile charging unit ready to deploy into its roadside assistance operations. The motor club...
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee approved the FY12 Homeland Security Appropriations bill. As part of the Homeland Security bill, the Committee passed an amendment to add $1 billion in funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) disaster relief fund, offset by reducing funding from the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) Loan Program at the Department of Energy. Below is a statement about the...
WASHINGTON, April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With gas prices hitting $4 a gallon and the one-year anniversary of the Gulf oil disaster this week, on Tuesday Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu will headline a motorcade of battery, hybrid and fuel cell powered vehicles through Washington D.C. The parade takes place during Earth Week and is part of the Electric Drive Transportation Association's (EDTA) annual conference - in order to highlight alternatives to oil dependence. The Honorable Steven Chu,...
