> Bruce EVangel Parmenter wrote:
> >
> > EVLN(DOE fund$ UQM tests to improve the EV)
> > [The Internet Electric Vehicle List News. For Public EV
> > informational purposes. Contact publication for reprint rights.]
> > --- {EVangel}
> > Source: Enova Systems
> > Press Release
> > Source: UQM Technologies, Inc.
> >
> > UQM Technologies Awarded U.S. Department of Defense Contract
> > to Evaluate The Optimum Configuration for an Advanced
> > Electric Vehicle Contract to Utilize the Company's Extensive
> > Vehicle Integration Experience To Evaluate and Configure the
> > Technologies Available to Improve The Operating
> > Characteristics of Electric Vehicles Tuesday September 10,
> > 8:30 am ET
> >
> > GOLDEN, Colo., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UQM
> > TECHNOLOGIES, INC. announced today that it has been awarded
> > a contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to evaluate and
> > configure currently available technologies in an electric
> > vehicle to improve the operating characteristics of the
> > vehicle. The initial project, awarded under the Small
> > Business Innovation Research program, will span a nine month
> > period and consist of the evaluation of various technologies
> > required for the operation of an electric vehicle, such as
> > battery and ultracapacitor energy storage technologies,
> > electric propulsion system technologies, electronic power
> > inverter technologies, energy management systems and
> > steer-by-wire technologies. Based on the evaluation of the
> > operating characteristics of these technologies, the Company
> > will develop the optimum configuration of these technologies
> > in an electric vehicle with the goal of improving the
> > operational characteristics of the electric vehicle.
> >
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> >
> OH gee UQM gets goverment funding to do what we do for fun and business.
>
> How to spend OUR money doing what they are good at.
> I bet it's a REALLY complicated and expensive solution. Extend the
> myth, While us EVers put them together with spit, pluck and Guts.
>
>
> Rich Rudman
> Manzanita Micro
> www.manzanitamicro.com
> 1-360-297-7383,Cell 1-360-620-6266
>
This would be the same company that just put out the press release below.
They seem a competent company, but it seems a little incestuous. I wonder if
the report will be publicly disseminated.
Cliff
Press Release Source: UQM Technologies, Inc.
UQM Technologies Announces Revolutionary Electric Motor Performance
Breakthrough
Newly Developed UQM(R) Electric Motor System Demonstrates High Torque and
High Speed Capability in a Single Machine Greater Than Twice That of the
Industry's Next Best Performing Motor Technology; New System Will
Dramatically Improve The Performance of Electric, Hybrid Electric and Fuel
Cell Electric Vehicles At a Cost Competitive With Existing Systems
Tuesday September 17, 8:32 am ET
FREDERICK, Colo., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UQM Technologies, Inc.
(Amex: UQM - News), a developer of alternative energy technologies,
announced today that it has achieved a revolutionary breakthrough in the
performance of an electric motor. The Company has developed and successfully
tested a permanent magnet electric motor system that achieves a 10 to 1 top
speed to base speed ratio or what is commonly referred to in the industry as
constant power speed ratio (CPSR). The newly developed system provides both
high torque and high speed capability in the same machine at levels greater
than twice that of the industry's best performing motor technology.
