electric vehicle conversion

• Award

Brandon Hollinger of Lancaster won the EVTV Build Your Dream Car competition, held at last week's Electric Vehicle Conversion Convention in Cape Girardeau, Mo. By topping nearly 1,000 competitors, Hollinger won a $20,000 component package, which he plans to use on his fourth conversion project, a London taxi.

• Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era - Saturday Edition
• September 29, 2011

• Rock Legend Neil Young's Bio-Hydro-Electric Series Hybrid Vehicle Conversion to Be Powered by UQM(R) Propulsion System.

FREDERICK, Colo. -- UQM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (AMEX:UQM), a developer of alternative energy technologies, announced today that one of its 150 KW propulsi...

• Business Wire
• January 29, 2008

• Global Electric Initiates Latin American Vehicle Conversion Project.

Energy Editors/Business Editors MEXICO CITY/LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 2003 Whistler Investments Inc. (OTCBB:WHSL) (Name change pending ...

• Business Wire
• November 20, 2003

• To Its Customer

HARBOR CITY, Calif., Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Balqon Corporation (OTCBB: BLQN), a developer of electric drive systems, lithium battery systems and medium to heavy-duty electric vehicles, today announced the availability of its new Mule M100, a zero- emissions, all-electric on-road truck for use in inner-city deliveries and cargo transportation. The Mule M100 has a top speed of 70 miles per hour and can travel up to 100 miles before having to recharge, making it ideal for daily, short-haul deliveries. The Mule M100 also demonstrates the expansion of Balqon's product portfolio into the Class 7 on-road market and the versatility of its drive system technology, which is now being applied to buses and trucks. The Mule M100 was developed using Balqon's proprietary heavy- duty electric veh...

• U.S. Newswire
• August 01, 2011

• 49 CFR 571.305 - Standard No. 305; Electric-powered vehicles: electrolyte spillage and electrical shock protection.

...Electric energy storage/conversion/power generating system means the components compr...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 49: Transportation

• Incentives for Fleets to Go Electric

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Smith Electric Vehicles Corp. (Smith), a leader in all-electric commercial vehicles, today announced that the company will expand its U.S. operations by adding a manufacturing facility in New York State, creating up to 100 new direct local jobs. Smith will manufacture the zero-emission Newton(TM), its all-electric medium duty vehicle with a range of up to 150 miles and an average annual operating cost that is one-third to one-half that of conventional diesel trucks with comparable gross vehicle weights (GVWs), at the new facility beginning in 2012. A package of city and state incentives of approximately $11 million will augment Smith's private investment. Also today, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the development of a federally-funde...

... encourages fleets to accelerate their conversion from diesel to electric.". "New York has shown tre...

• U.S. Newswire
• November 15, 2011

• Rev Technologies Inc. Grid Software for Micro-Grid Integration

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- REV Technologies Inc. (REVTM), a leading provider of energy aggregation and dispatch control services for grid-networked electric vehicles, today announced an award from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE: SAI]. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111025/CG92734)

... SAIC to provide electric vehicle (EV) conversion technology and integrated vehicle to grid (V2G) an...

• U.S. Newswire
• October 25, 2011

• Nationwide Categorical Waivers Under Section 1605 (Buy American) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act)

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is hereby granting a nationwide limited waiver of the Buy American requirements of section 1605 of the Recovery Act under the authority of Section 1605(b)(2), (iron, steel, and the relevant manufactured goods are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality), with respect to Recovery Act projects funded by EERE for ((1) 400 amp Dual Element Time-Delay Fuses for electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) charging station; (2) Video imaging card rack mounted boards for vehicle presence and data detection; (3) 20-ton split system heat pump that meets a minimum static pressure requirement of 3.0 inches of water column (only where the 3.0 water column is a requirement of the system); and (4...

... system); and (4) network manager for conversion of proprietary protocol--Staefa brand system--to a...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 9906, February 21, 2012
• Notices
• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office

• Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards:

...Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Electric-Powered. Vehicles; Electrolyte Spillage and Electr... for electric energy storage/conversion systems, the electrical isolation requirements, th...

• FR, July 29, 2011
• Rules
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

• Dear EarthTalk: Not long ago we were reading a lot about hydrogen's role in a clean energy future, with cars transitioning from gasoline-powered engines to hydrogen-powered fuel cells.

... does hydrogen fit now in the mix with electric cars now coming on so strong?--Amanda Jenkins, Tro... better option to the hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle in the long run." Likewise, the International Ener... resulting energy is taken up by the conversion of hydrogen back into electricity within fuel cell...

• EarthTalk: Questions & Answers About Our Environment. A Weekly Column
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011