The New South Wales Police Services are using 12 Zapworld.Com (Sebastopol, CA) electric bikes to travel through traffic and respond to calls at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. According to consultant Ted Wilson, although there are many types of vehicles available for troops in the Olympic Village, "the ZAP bikes were unanimously voted […]
American Electric Automobile Company (San Diego, CA) announced a change of control in ownership, board of directors and operations which took effect on September 13, 2000. The three former directors, Edward F. Myers, Gary G.DeGano and Betty N. Myers, stepped down from their positions to allow operations and control to pass to a new management […]
Texaco Energy Systems Inc. (TESI, White Plains, NY) and Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ECD, Troy, MI) announced the formation of Texaco Ovonic Fuel Cell Company LLC, a fifty-fifty joint venture to further develop and advance the commercialization of the Ovonic Regenerative Fuel Cell.Under the terms of the joint venture agreement, ECD will provide proprietary technology […]
Electric Fuel Corporation (Iselin, NJ) announced that the German government has issued a contract to undertake a cooperative all-electric hybrid vehicle development and demonstration program in Germany. A consortium comprised of Electric Fuel's Electrical Vehicle Division, and several major German industrial firms and academic institutions will implement the program, announced in January 2000. The four-year […]
Ballard Power Systems (Burnaby, BC) held a ceremony recently in which they accepted a prototype battery-powered car from Ford Motor Co. (Detroit, MI). The ceremony was significant because the Ford design will potentially rival cars powered by Ballard's electricity-producing fuel cells. Ford officials, however, believe that different technologies for powering environmentally-friendly electric cars will co-exist […]
International Rectifier (IR, El Segundo, CA) announced the extension of its line of low-voltage HEXFET power MOSFETs targeted at automotive applications. The...
General Motors China Group has donated five electric-powered vehicles (EVs) to the Ministry of Science and Technology of China as part of their support for a cleaner environment. The five vehicles, two EV1s and three electric S-10 pickup trucks, were delivered to the ministry in the China EV Field Test and Demonstration Zone."One of GM's […]
Lear Corp. (Southfield, MI) and Exide Corp. (Reading, PA) have announced that they have signed a letter of intent to enter into a strategic collaboration. The corporations plan to co-develop and market advanced power-packaging solutions for the automotive industry. The collaboration will focus on designing interior systems to meet the increasing complexity and power requirements […]
Lear Corp. (Southfield, MI) and Exide Corp. (Reading, PA) have announced that they have signed a letter of intent to enter into a strategic collaboration. The corporations plan to co-develop and market advanced power packaging solutions for the automotive industry. The collaboration will focus on designing interior systems to meet the increasing complexity and power […]
IMPCO Technologies, Inc. (Cerritos, CA) announced that a team of scientists hydroburst tested a high-performance prototype hydrogen storage cylinder designed for Fuel Cell Vehicle applications (FCVs). The scientists, who were from IMPCO, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (Livermore, CA), Thiokol Propulsion (Salt Lake City, UT), and Alcoa Industrial Components Group, a subsidiary of Alcoa Inc. (Pittsburgh, […]
DaimlerChrysler AG, BP, BASF, Statoil Methanex Corp., and XCELLSIS have formally agreed to cooperate in a study which will evaluate what would be needed to facilitate the introduction and commercialization of methanol fuel cell vehicles. After scrutinizing health, safety and environmental issues associated with the introduction of methanol fuel cell vehicles, the companies hope to […]
Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) raised its first-half net profit forecast last week and is now predicting an increase of more than 11 times their initial estimate. Instead of the originally expected 4.7 billion yen, Hitachi anticipates reaping 55.0 billion yen ($514.6 million dollars). The rise is largely due to the increased demand for semiconductor chips […]
H Power Corp. (Clifton, NJ) recently unveiled the Power Pem PS250, a new PEM fuel cell system. The system, rated at 250W, is available in both mobile and rack-mounted models. Intended for the small electric-vehicle market as a primary or fuel cell battery hybrid-power source, the Power Pem PS250 can also be used as a […]
A recent poll by the California Electric Transportation Coalition (CalETC, Sacramento, CA) of over 900 new car buyers in the state shows a strong demand for reasonably priced electric vehicles. More than a third of new car buyers in California said that they would purchase zero emission electric vehicles if more of them were available […]
Eagle-Picher Technologies LLC (EPT, Joplin, MO) has announced the name of its new subsidiary in British Columbia as Eagle-Picher Energy Products Corp. (EPC). The subsidiary, formerly known as BlueStar Battery Systems Corp. (BBSC), was acquired by EPT on June 30, 2000, and was an amalgamation of BlueStar Advanced Technology Corporation and BlueStar Systems Corporation. Rex […]