October 9, 2011 21:13
by J. Wylie Donald
Notwithstanding the bad press garnered recently by some clean technology business models that relied on government largesse (most notably the failure of Solyndra LLC and its accompanying half-billion dollar government guarantee), government funding of "green" is not going away. Last Thursday, ECOtality announced the award of a five year $26.4 million contract with the Department of Energy to continue to test and evaluate advanced vehicles.
As stated by ECOtality, "The primary goal of the Advanced Vehicle Testing and Evaluation project is to provide key data for technolo...