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There were some obvious winners this year in the electric drive category and some less than winners. Let us see the winners first.
The gist is that we can be thankful a few car makers, utilities and private companies have seen the light and are moving fast into the electric drive world.
EV Startups & Innovator Award got to... Loremo. Why Loremo? Light weight is nothing new to car makers, unfortunately mainstream auto manufacturers have taken the wrong road by making vehicles heavier with shoddy fuel economy the last decades. It left an opening for a few innovative startups to reconsider light material that offer strong and sturdy final results. Loremo has shown light also means tough.
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Here is a video to wet your appetite...
The Most Promising Research Award goes to... IBM. Big Blue IBM has been remarkably active in the energy and storage field. With its foray into energy consumption and promising work on Lithium-Air batteries, it deserve an honorable mention.
The Award For The Friendliest EV Eco Solution Goes To… Lampo. The Lampo Protostar wants to have its EV offset its carbon footstep by having its solar arrays at the factory feed electricity into the grid.
The Award For The Perfect All-Around EV Goes To… Tesla Motors and their Model S. The Model S will not stop to surprise us as more and more will come out from the EV startup with technological breakthroughs this new year. The Model S answers many people’s concern, a big enough EV for the family with enough performance to satisfy almost everyone. The Model S provides room for 7 and with an option for 300 miles of range. There are also rumors the company is working on a very energy dense battery pack... We eagerly await its arrival.
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Less than 20 car companies applied for $25 BILLION DOLLARS in taxpayer money managed by a certain smug group of people at DOE in order to get loans to make green cars for Americans’. This was not all of DOE that did bad things, just a private cadre of men.
There was enough money to help every single one of the car companies that applied. The administrators applied their interpretations of the law in order to benefit the large lobby group-related firms and avoided every one of the “unconnected” companies.
The amount of lobby and influence money spent is in direct ratio to the amount of money awarded.
The smaller companies, due to lower overhead, could have dramatically more productive results with the money than the large burdened companies yet the money was given out based on political career advantages rather technology advantages.
All of the people that reviewed the applications had political and financial connections to GM, Ford, Chrysler and the large
Hi Marco, I can certainly appreciate your frustration, as many do. We have a gangrened situation when it comes to lobbyism in our country. It trumps rationality and removes what little power consumers have left. Hopefully those same consumers will start using their credit cards wisely and send a clear message that they are the ones who chooses in the end. After a while, more products will be available.
In the meantime, nothing stops us from buying from the little guys to show support. Innovations mostly come from small companies and startups. It is a well known fact that small companies are more nimbler and can produce great products faster and often time cheaper.
Thanks for this comment, Nick
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