There are more trucks and SUVs on the road than cars, and CTEK, the leading global brand in vehicle charging solutions, knows trucks and SUVs. According to J.D. Power, truck and SUVs are on pace to account for 79.2% of new-vehicle retail sales in February. Additionally, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics has documented the average age of vehicles on… Read more »
A local nanotechnology company is set to receive a $1.5 million dollar grant from the U.S. Air Force, if it can raise the matching funds in time. To that end, they announce the launch of their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Company founder and Chief Technology Officer Pavlo Rudenko, Ph.D., founded TriboTEX in Pullman, Washington in… Read more »
Derek Automotive Technologies, an electric vehicle manufacturer, has released information about the first of its Proteus cars, vehicles with all-electric drivetrains and a gas-to-electric Proteus ‘warp-coil-generator ‘ to recharge the battery banks, instead of a plug-in charger. The automaker will introduce fully-electric SUV – the MA-3 (which uses fast plug-in charging) in September 2019, and plans… Read more »
Derek Automotive Technologies, Inc., announced today that the company has entered the final stage of funding for their gas-to-electric Proteus supercharger, an invention that recharges electric vehicles using gas instead of the electric grid. The Proteus supercharger will be ready for large-scale manufacturing and production in 2020. This news comes on the heels of what… Read more »
Washington-based TriboTEX has been awarded one of the U.S. Air Force’s Small Business Innovation Research grants of $50,000. Under the special topic, awardees were challenged to provide innovative, defense-related, dual-purpose technologies or solutions to meet a clear Air Force need. The new award allows TriboTEX to expand solutions the company derived through earlier SBIR grants… Read more »
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