September 8, 2010

Orlando, Fla. is preparing to get nearly 300 EV charging stations... [More]

September 8, 2010

Lee's Summit R-7 School District is welcoming a new fleet of all-electric... [More]

August 30, 2010

Allison Transmission, a producer of automatic transmissions for the medium... [More]

August 26, 2010

Chemetall produces lithium carbonate to customers in a wide range... [More]

August 24, 2010

The Recovery Act is working, and Vice President Joe Biden had some metrics Tuesday to back up that claim.

With the help of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act investments, the United States is on track to double its renewable energy generation capacity by 2012 and significantly drive down the cost of electric batteries and solar technology over the next five years, Biden said to an audience of Recovery Act recipients at the White House.

Joined by Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Biden made the remarks during a speech to unveil a report, titled “The Recovery Act: Transforming the American Economy through Innovation,” that analyzed the impacts of Recovery Act investments in science and technology projects, many in the clean energy sector. [More]

August 18, 2010

Hydraulics in vehicles — best known for bouncing cars and kneeling buses — are getting a serious look in Ann Arbor, Michigan... [More]

August 17, 2010

President Barack Obama traveled to Menomonee Falls, Wis., Monday to visit ZBB Energy Corporation's renovated battery plant... [More]

August 16, 2010

More than half of the gas we buy - and the money we spend on it - is wasted. [More]

August 13, 2010

Each year, about 150 kids gather during the summer at Camp Discovery in Kerrville, Texas, to learn new things and have fun. But this isn't an ordinary summer camp — the attendees, ages seven to 16, all have been diagnosed with cancer. During the course of a week, campers get a great learning experience, but they also have the opportunity to talk about their experiences with other people who share the burden of their illness.

For Craig Egan, Camp Discovery has a personal connection — he's a cancer survivor. After attending some events associated with the camp last year, Egan, who is president of engineering consulting firm ACE Technologies, felt compelled to get involved. [More]

August 11, 2010

Just outside Baton Rouge in Zachary, La., sits Novolyte Technologies, a battery component manufacturer in business since the early 1970s, making components for batteries used in everything from calculators to hearing aids.

But now, much of Novolyte's focus is on the growing, domestic electric vehicle (EV) industry. For Novolyte, this means manufacturing more electrolytes, a key component for lithium-ion batteries used in EVs. [More]

August 6, 2010

Electron Energy Corporation is one of a kind.

According to Peter Dent, vice president of business development for the second generation, family-owned company in Landisville, Penn., is the last remaining U.S. producer of centered rare earth magnets. [More]

August 6, 2010

In Kansas City, Mo., an 80-year old company is on the cutting edge of a growing, new domestic industry – electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing.

Through a Recovery Act grant, that company - Smith Electric Vehicles (SEV) – is taking a different tact that could lay the foundation for the industry's future. Not only is the company manufacturing all-electric, zero-emission commercial trucks, it's collecting data on how these commercial EVs are used. [More]

July 29, 2010

This fall, when students in Texas' Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) board school buses, some of them will be riding on the district's new hybrid electric diesel vehicles.

Thanks to Recovery Act funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Cities program, the district was able to purchase 25 buses—enough to transport 1,800 students to school while saving the district 12,000 gallons of fuel a year. The program covered the cost difference between replacing an older bus and purchasing a new hybrid electric diesel model. [More]

July 22, 2010

Panel members representing Ford, Nissan, GM and the National Automobile Dealers Association discuss the plug-in vehicle markets at DOE EV workshop in Washington, D.C. | Courtesy of the Department of Energy Washington. D.C.—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) hosted an electric vehicle (EV) workshop at DOE Headquarters Thursday that brought together more than 150 city officials, vehicle manufacturers, utility companies and other stakeholders with the purposes o... [More]

July 15, 2010

The electric-vehicle industry received more support Thursday when President Obama delivered remarks in Holland, Mich., at the groundbreaking ceremony for an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-funded battery cell plant.

The President said the Compact Power plant will create almost 600 jobs and help put more affordable, American-made electric vehicles on the road. [More]

July 15, 2010

Business is booming at UQM Technologies, a Frederick, Colo.-based manufacturer and developer of electric vehicle propulsion systems.

Last summer, UQM signed a 10-year contract to build motor and control systems for all electric cars to be manufactured by CODA Automotive of California. UQM aims to produce 20,000 of the propulsion systems over a two-year span. [More]

July 2, 2010

The EV Project, a program of ECOtality North America, was already the largest electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure project ever undertaken. ECOtality is partnering with Nissan North America to deploy thousands of zero-emission electric vehicles and charging systems in the U.S. [More]

July 1, 2010

Twelve Darmouth College students stopped at the U.S. Department of Energy Monday in a Big Green Bus, a 1989 MCI coach with an engine modified to run on waste vegetable oil. [More]

June 25, 2010

When Tony Petelos became the mayor of Hoover in 2004, the police fleet was run down. Within the next year, Petelos, with support from the community, called for a big change: switch out the old police fleet with new, flexible-fueled vehicles.

Flexible-fueled vehicles are specially designed to run on gasoline or any blend of up to 85 percent ethanol. The fleet is now made up of nearly 200 cars and more than 150 equipment vehicles, with 88 percent of the fleet running on either biodiesel or corn ethanol. [More]

June 11, 2010

Last year, 1.6 million hybrid electric cars were sold in the U.S, making Americans the largest buyers of the vehicles. As demand continues to soar, there’s an increased need to re-train the country’s workforce to keep up the pace of production. Purdue University and Delphi have teamed up to offer an accelerated course on electric hybrid vehicles for the manufacturing company’s employees. The course, EV101 Introduction to Electric Vehicle Systems, consists of 10 four-hour sessions at Purdue’s West Lafayette, Ind., campus.

Energy Empowers spoke to Purdue engineering professor Dr. Oleg Wasynczuk, who teaches the class, about the goal of the course and why it’s important for America’s clean energy economy. [More]