{"id":1523,"date":"2010-10-20T22:06:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T02:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2010-10-20T22:06:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T02:06:44","slug":"california-energy-commission-awards-funding-for-alternative-vehicle-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/california-energy-commission-awards-funding-for-alternative-vehicle-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"California Energy Commission Awards Funding For Alternative Vehicle Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California Energy Commission recently approved over $12.5 million for nine projects related to alternative vehicle technology.?? Projects related to the STOV market included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly $1 million to Santa Cruz-based Zero Motorcycles to develop a motor and integrated controller specifically for use in  electric vehicles such as motorcycles, neighborhood electric  vehicles, and all-terrain vehicles with a target production price of less than $450 each.<\/li>\n<li>$1.1 million to Coulomb Technologies to develop their Charge Point Communication Processor, designed  to be installed into existing electric chargers and into new chargers  manufactured by other companies. The result will be a complete smart  charger network capable of remotely controlling the charging and  discharging of batteries and shifting charging loads away from peak  hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of the grants are matched by the participating companies and in some cases local governments provide additional funding or loans as well.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cali energy Commission Awards Alt Vehicle Tech grants\" href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.ca.gov\/mobile\/m_newsormedia.php?getfile=2010_releases\/2010-10-06_ab118_awards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:?? Energy.ca.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Energy Commission recently approved over $12.5 million for nine projects related to alternative vehicle technology.?? Projects related to the STOV market included: Nearly $1 million to Santa Cruz-based Zero Motorcycles to develop a motor and integrated controller specifically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/california-energy-commission-awards-funding-for-alternative-vehicle-tech\/\">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":[1],"tags":[224,301,450,1463],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-coulomb-technologies","tag-energy-commission","tag-zero-motorcycles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"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=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}