{"id":1515,"date":"2010-10-16T08:53:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T12:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2010-10-16T08:53:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T12:53:25","slug":"sandia-national-labs-wins-award-for-solar-powered-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/sandia-national-labs-wins-award-for-solar-powered-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandia National Labs Wins Award for Solar Powered GEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sandia National Laboratories has won a 2010 GreenGov Presidential award for modifying a GEM LSV to operate on solar power.?? The awards honor federal agencies and employees who work to reduce  greenhouse gas pollution, meet a number of energy, water and waste  reduction targets and leverage federal purchasing power to promote  environmentally responsible products and techniques.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>PV-powered GEM carts would reduce the number of needed charging  stations, resulting in fewer repairs and decreased maintenance costs.  Converting to solar powered carts also translates to significant  environmental savings. Because no power is purchased for the PV-powered  cart, no coal is burned, and no carbon dioxide is released into the  atmosphere to power them.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to management Sandia will be expanding the program by modifying five Club Car LSVs<em>. <\/em><a title=\"National Lab wins award for solar LSV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.photonicsonline.com\/article.mvc\/Sandia-National-Laboratories-Photovoltaic-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:?? Photonicsonline.com<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandia National Laboratories has won a 2010 GreenGov Presidential award for modifying a GEM LSV to operate on solar power.?? The awards honor federal agencies and employees who work to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, meet a number of energy, water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/sandia-national-labs-wins-award-for-solar-powered-gem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,18,26],"tags":[273,772,1020,1144,1202],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-gem","category-nev","category-technology","tag-club-car","tag-lsv","tag-presidential-greengov-award","tag-sandia-national-laboratories","tag-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}