Clean Technology Innovation Speaker Series |
ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS SOLD OUT! Thanks for all your enthusiastic interest in this event. Advance registration is now closed, and we anticipate the venue being filled to the maximum. GreenMountain Engineering presents Clean Technology Innovation: Green My RideIt has been nearly impossible to miss the emerging emphasis on “greener” transportation recently. Higher prices at the gas pump and a proliferation of hybrids have finally put the spotlight on alternative technologies. However, the automotive industry has a long-standing reputation for being averse to change. Can Silicon Valley upstarts really expect to take on Detroit? Which emerging technologies have the most potential to impact the transportation industry and where are the biggest opportunities for entrepreneurs? Panelists will explore these and other questions at GreenMountain’s second Clean Technology Innovation event of 2006. Panelists will include: High-Performance Electric Vehicles: Tesla Motors Nanotech Battery Startup: Nanoexa Plug-In Hybrids: CalCars Moderated by Jon Guice, PhD Tuesday September 26, 2006
More about the participants: Tesla MotorsTesla Motors designs and sells high-performance, highly efficient electric sports cars — with no compromises. Tesla Motors cars combine style, acceleration, and handling with advanced technologies that make them among the fastest and the most energy-efficient cars on the road. CTO JB Straubel has indulged a lifelong passion for electric vehicles designing engines and engine components for electric hybrid airplanes and cars as well as first-generation all-electric vehicles. Before joining Tesla Motors, he was the CTO and co-founder of aerospace firm, Volacom Inc. NanoexaNanoexa is a nanotechnology-based clean energy company whose mission is to dramatically improve material performance in clean energy products such as solar cells and lithium ion batteries. Director of Technology Dr. Sujeet Kumar has extensive experience with nanotechnology including the development of application specific nanomaterials for Lithium ion batteries, Cpacitors, Catalysts and Phosphors. Dr. Kumar holds over 40 patents on Nanotechnology and currently leads development of Nanoexa's energy storage devices. CalCarsCalCars is a group of entrepreneurs, environmentalists, engineers and other citizens working to spur adoption of efficient, non-polluting automotive technologies. They are building demand among highly receptive markets to encourage auto makers to produce 100+MPG "no-sacrifices" high-performance, clean hybrid cars. CalCars was founded by Felix Kramer, a marketing strategist and communicator for young and growing companies whohas managed major environmental conferences and run environmental campaigns and organizations. John Davi is Director of Communications for CalCars and spearheads many of the successful initiatives that have been increasing awareness about hybrid electric vehicles in California and throughout the county.
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