Electric Cars Of
Costa Rica
Adding More
Vehicles To Its
Line Of
Zero Emission
Vehicles
As a leading
distributor of
electric cars
and light duty
on-road trucks
in Costa Rica,
Electric Cars of
Costa Rica, will
now distribute
Balgon's medium
and heavy-duty
electric
vehicles and
drive systems,
and provide
service and
parts throughout
Costa Rica.
Balqon
Corporation, a
developer and
manufacturer of
zero emissions
heavy-duty
electric
vehicles for
Class 7 and
Class 8
applications,
will be making
its vehicles
available in
Costa Rica by
way of a dealer
agreement.
"Costa Rica has
been setting the
pace among
nations for
reducing carbon
emissions and
has declared the
ambitious goal
of becoming the
first country in
the world to be
carbon neutral,"
said Balwinder
Samra, president
and CEO of
Balqon
Corporation.
"Electric Cars
of Costa Rica
has been leading
the effort to
introduce new
zero emissions
technologies to
Costa Rica and
has extensive
experience in
NEV inner city
delivery vehicle
markets."
"In addition to
introducing
all-electric
medium and
heavy-duty
trucks for
transportation
of goods and
services, we
plan to jointly
develop both the
new and
conversion
vehicle markets
in Costa Rica by
providing our
proprietary
drive system and
high-capacity
lithium-ion
battery packs
for use in
various vehicle
platforms," said
Samra.
James
Middlebrooks,
president and
founder of
Electric Cars of
Costa Rica,
commented: "We
are excited to
deliver to Costa
Rica Balqon's
extensively
tested and
successfully
commercialized
zero emissions
technology for
heavy-duty
vehicles. We
expect these
advanced
technologies to
be quickly
adopted by our
existing
environmentally-conscious
customer base of
resorts,
distribution
warehouses, and
inner city
distribution
companies."
Costa Rica is
ranked first
among the
Americas and
third in the
world in terms
of the 2010
Environmental
Performance
Index. In 2007,
the Costa Rican
government
announced plans
for Costa Rica
to become the
first carbon
neutral country
by 2021.
According to the
New Economics
Foundation,
Costa Rica ranks
first in the
Happy Planet
Index and is the
"greenest"
country in the
world. Also,
according to an
October 2009
article
published by
Summa Magazine,
Costa Rica is
the world's
fourth largest
exporter of high
technology due
to the fact that
nearly half of
its sales from
manufacturing
relate to
products
developed with
proprietary
technologies.
Electric Cars of
Costa Rica
represents the
third
international
dealer agreement
Balqon has
established
since the first
of the year. In
Febuary, Balqon
signed
Autoelevadores
Yale, a leading
distributor of
material
handling
equipment and
electric
vehicles in
Argentina. In
March, Balqon
signed
Industrias IVOR,
a distributor of
trucks,
firefighting
trucks and
equipment,
refuse trucks,
and heavy
machinery for
material
handling
products in
Colombia.
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