EcoMotors’ Mission “Clean, Efficient and Lightweight Propulsion Systems for a Better World” This credo is the essence of our mission, as well as of our passion. EcoMotors’ journey comprises the quest for ever-greater Power Density, and the enabling of globally relevant applications of our technologies. We dimension the terms of our Mission as follows: Clean: [...]
Energy Systems Network
An initiative of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership focused on Indiana’s clean technology opportunity. Clean technologies, or ‘cleantech’ is the collection of industries that bring energy innovations to consumers – from putting hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles on our highways to building the ‘smart grid’ and other advances that make renewable energy a realistic option [...]
Conexus – Indiana
Manufacturing is evolving – it's high-tech, innovative, driven by explosive growth in productivity. In Indiana, we're on the cutting-edge of these trends. And here at the Crossroads of America, we know how to get our goods quickly and efficiently into the hands of customers across the nation and around the world. Now Indiana has another [...]
Uncommon Act of Design: Fake Bus Stop Helps Altzheimer’s Patients
A German hospital's amazing solution to a baffling problem. One of the most pernicious symptoms of Altzheimer's is that patients, in a fit of confusion, feel suddenly disoriented from their surroundings and wracked with a need to just get home. As a result, Altzheimer's patients in nursing homes often escape–wandering at large, with no memory [...]
China Vies to Be Leader in Electric Vehicles – NYTimes.com
TIANJIN, China — Chinese leaders have adopted a plan aimed at turning the country into one of the leading producers of hybrid and all-electric vehicles within three years, and making it the world leader in electric cars and buses after that.Enlarge This Image Doug Kanter for The New York TimesChinese leaders have adopted a plan [...]
China’s stimulus package powers Cummins
Last month, while Cummins' second-quarter sales of portable power generators fell 35 percent to $610 million, sales in China fell by almost half that rate as plans to lavish money on construction projects help to cushion the profits of one of Cummins' fastest growing businesses. “We are definitely seeing some benefits” from the stimulus, said [...]