On a Federal Advocacy Trip to Washington DC in May 2011, organized by Environmental Entrepreneurs to promote CleanTech, from left, David Moyar from MEI Hotels in Cleveland, Felix Kramer, and Laura Berland Shane from Siemens in Santa Monica met with Rep. Jay Inslee of Washington State. See a description of the trip at E2 Newsletter. | |||||
CA Assembly Speak John Perez admiring a CalCars conversion in Silicon Valley, September 2010. Full size photo | |||||
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Minnesota State Representative Frank Hornstein and State Senator Scott Dibble came to Millbrae, CA on November 21, 2008 to explore potential new policies to promote plug-in cars in their state and throughout the Midwest. Full size photo | top | ||||
CalCars Senior Advisor Randy Reisinger with two visitors from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wu Xiao Ying, Counsellor, Department of East European and Central Affairs, and Lu Guijun, Deputy Director, Japanese Division, Asian Department, with their interpreter Weiqun Gu, at Stanford University, September 2008 after a briefing facilitated by the Institute of International Education. Lu Guijun holds the dongle; the car is a non-plug-in Toyota Camry hybrid. Full size photo | top | ||||
Dr. Roberto Dobles, Costa Rica's Minister of Environment and Energy (also responsible for Telecommunications, Water Resources and Mining), in front of UC Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies in May 2008 at an event hosted by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Entrepreneurs. Dr. Dobles led a delegation to Massachusetts and California pursuing ways Costa Rica can achieve its goal of becoming "carbon neutral" by 2021, and briefings by CalCars and the Electric Power Research Institute introduced them to PHEVs. Full size photo | top | ||||
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, founder of the Mayor's Compact for Climate Protection Agreement now signed by 850 cities, takes delivery of the first of 13 PHEV Priuses to be delivered to a regional demonstration project. The vehicle was converted by Hymotion and includes V2Green monitoring equipment.. Full size photo | top | ||||
Silicon Valley Assembly Member Ira Ruskin at the Woodside Environment Fest, April 20, 2008. A member of the Transportation Committee, he introduced a visionary "feebate" bill to provide rebates for the purchase of the most new efficient cars funded by taxing the highest gas guzzlers. As Chairman of the Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Resources, he is responsible for oversight of the state's environmental agencies, including the Air Resources Board and the Energy Commission, and the implementation of key measures like AB32 (California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006) and AB118 (the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program). Full size photo | top | ||||
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger got a brief explanation from 100+MPG-T-shirt-wearing Michael Bender (CalCars webmaster) at the Green Technology Summit in Sacramento, April 8, 2008. Read a full description of the encounter, or view the full size photo. | top | ||||
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom with Jennifer Krill of Rainforest Action Network and Danielle Fugere of Bluewater Network/Friends of the Earth at the February press conference where the city received delivery of three Hymotion cars. Full size photo | top | ||||
GM's Al Weverstad explains the Chevy Volt (prototype in rear) to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at LA Auto Show, November 2007. Full size photo | top | ||||
Toyota VP of Communications Irv Miller with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, at the LA Auto Show, November 2007, demonstrating one of four plug-in Priuses Toyota has brought to California. Full size photo | top | ||||
At the North Dakota Great Plains Energy Expo in Bismarck in late Oct, 2007, Basin Electric Power Cooperative presented a live conversion of a Ford Escape into a PHEV by Hymotion. North Dakota's first PHEV was seen by Bud Collins, A123 Systems, Jerry Zielinski (kneeling), A123/Hymotion, Ron Harper, CEO and General Manager, Basin Electric Power Cooperative, North Dakota Governor John Hoeven, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan and U.S. Dept. of Energy Secretary Sam Bodman. Photo: Steve Crane / Basin Electric Power Cooperative ( Full size) | top | ||||
At a reception during Iceland's first conference on how to power vehicles with "environmentally friendly fuels" in Reykjavik, September 17 2007, Thorkell Helgason, Director General at the National Energy Authority, hears about the infrastructure needed for electricity. (More photos: Driving Sustainability) | top | ||||
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The late U.S. Representative Tom Lantos of California, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, drove a PHEV for his August 30, 2007 "green tour" of solar and biofuel facilities on the San Francisco Peninsula. Full size photo | top | ||||
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