Thank You To Our Sponsors

We would like to thank our sponsors. We really appreciate all that they have done for us, and without them we would not have this great opportunity. Each of them has made a great contribution to this team. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. We strongly encourage you to tour their websites and send them thanks for giving back to student education programs such as this one.

Electric Blue Motors (EBM) designs electric vehicle components and converts cars to electric. They have provided us with our motor controller project. They have also provided us with the facility and equipment needed to produce our test vehicle. Our test vehicle is under conversion at their shop. If you’d like to take a look at our progress in person, please contact Nicholas Negrete to arrange a visit. We would like to give a special thanks to Dave Labou (President) and Bill Schlanger (Vice President/ Electrical Engineering) for supporting us through this project.

www.electricbluemotors.com

If its power you want, you need Universal Power Group! UPG is corporately located in Dallas, TX. They are a global supplier and distributor of batteries and related power accessories. UPG has generously donated the battery pack for our test vehicle [12, 12 volt 250 Ah AGM batteries, UPG #45964]. Special thanks to Adam Winfrey, Director of Sales for the Western Region, for helping us through this donation.

www.universalpowergroup.com

Highway 85 Creative is located in Phoenix, AZ. They are a graphics company that has the capability to design web pages, auto graphics, tradeshow exhibitions, office design and much more. Highway 85 did a wonderful job creating the vinyl auto graphics for our test vehicle, thank you so much or your donation. We appreciate all the hard work from Sean Green, creative consultant.

www.highway85creative.com

Arizona Public Service, also known as APS, is corporately located in Phoenix, AZ. APS is a subsidiary of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation that provides the majority of Arizona with electrical power. APS is involved with green technologies such as solar, hydroelectric, wind, geothermal, and biogas programs. AS has a renewable energy program called APS GREEN CHOICE. For information on renewable resources, rebates, and energy saving techniques, visit: www.aps.com/main/green/choice/default.html. We received financial funding through a NAU/APS grant for students pursuing research in power electronic fields, thanks!

www.aps.com

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Updated 04-14-2010