ETV Motors in the Media

Media releases

From time to time, ETV Motors Ltd issues media releases about its ongoing development, corporate milestones and other significant company happenings. Past releases are archived below. 

• ETV Motors’ Management Goes Head to Head with Legendary Business Guru George Gilder (1-Jul-10) George Gilder, whose acclaimed Gilder Technology Report has been called the most influential publication of its kind on Wall Street, met in Tel Aviv with senior management of ETV Motors to hear about the company’s advanced battery technology for electric vehicles. “I was struck by the caliber and determination of the people behind the company. The world needs top-notch technology of the kind under development at ETV Motors,” he said. [PDF] [Online announcement]

• ETV Motors Selected to Present at California-Israel Cleantech Showcase (16-Apr-10) "ETV Motors, a developer of electric powertrain technology, has been selected to present at the California Israel Chamber of Commerce (CICC) Cleantech Showcase on 27th April in Palo Alto, CA. The Showcase is part of a three-day CICC Cleantech Tour program in which ten Israeli cleantech companies will meet with industry leaders, investment firms, policymakers and utility giants in Silicon Valley, California." [PDF] [Online announcement]

• ETV Motors' Chief Technology Officer Arieh Meitav to Discuss Electric Vehicle Propulsion Technology at Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Conference (15-Feb-10) ETV Motors Ltd., a developer of advanced electric vehicle (EV) propulsion technology, today announced that its Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder Dr. Arieh Meitav will lead a discussion on innovative power generation and energy storage technologies for electric vehicles at the Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Conference (Eilat, Israel, Herods & Dan Hotels, February 16-18, 2010). [PDF] [Online announcement]

• Hybrid-Electric Startup Urges EPA to Issue Meaningful Fuel Efficiency Metrics (24-Sep-09) "Speaking in a voice far louder than the startup's size might suggest, ETV Motors has challenged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to hold the car industry accountable for meaningful and usable fuel efficiency metrics..." [PDF] [Online announcement]

• ETV Motors successfully completes milestone demonstration of turbine-charged electric vehicle (11-Jul-09) [PDF] [Online announcement]

• South Korean officials meet with Israeli hybrid-electric system developer (10-Jun-09) [PDF] [Online announcement]

• ETV Motors, an Electric Vehicle Propulsion Start-Up, Announces $12M Series A Round (24-Apr-09) [PDF] [Online announcement]
  

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ETV Motors in the news

As an emerging poresence in the hybrid and EV industries, ETV Motors Ltd is frequently mentioned in the media. Some recent appearances [newest at the top]:

		Legendary business guru George Gilder on ETV Motors: “'I was struck by the caliber and determination of the people behind the company. The world needs top-notch technology of the kind under development at ETV Motors,' he said." [Click for full text] (WIBR Knoxville TN 2-Jul-10)
		20 Battery Startups Hitting the Road With Lithium-ion [Full text of article] "When [Earth2Tech] first put out our list of 13 startups working on lithium-ion batteries for vehicles, the market was waiting for billions of stimulus dollars for advanced batteries to be doled out, and hoping to gear up for its biggest ever plug-in vehicle push in 2010. That was a half a year ago... Here’s our updated list, now with 20 battery startups (working on battery cells, materials, management systems and other tech) you should know about [including ETV Motors]" (Earth2Tech.com, 14-Jan-10)
		Back to the Future: Is turbine technology the way forward for serial hybrid powertrains? One leading supplier is investigating "For generations, no technology has served the needs of mainstream vehicle propulsion better than piston engines. But as technology continues to evolve, and environmental and social pressures grow, many see the automobile industry at another tipping point. New and sustainable forms of power generation are contributing to a shift away from reciprocating ICEs in favour of cleaner, more efficient solutions that are friendlier to the ecology."  (Electric & Hybrid International, January 2010 - entire magazine is online here)
		E.P.A. Says M.P.G. for Electric Cars and Plug-in Hybrids Is a Work in Progress "The E.P.A.’s letter was in response to a Sept. 10 proposal from Israel’s ETV Motors, which is working on battery technology as well as a hybrid concept that uses a micro-turbine to replenish an E.V.’s batteries." (New York Times 1-Oct-09) [PDF]
		ETV Motors challenges EPA on emerging plug-in MPG rules "ETV Motors, the company behind the modified Prius with an extended-range microtubrine, believes that the EPA's emerging MPG methodology for plug-in vehicles – the one that allowed GM to proclaim a 230 mpg rating for the Chevy Volt and which Nissan used to say the all-electric Leaf gets 367 mpg – is clear as mud." (AutoBlog Green 26-Sep-09) [PDF]
		Debate begins about fuel ratings on electric cars "As the government hammers out how it will rate the fuel efficiency of hybrid-electric and all-electric vehicles, an Israeli company wants to make sure the U.S. gets it right... ETV Motors, a company that specializes in self-charging hybrid-electric propulsion systems for cars, has suggested in a letter to the EPA that the government consider a new multiple standard." (USA Today 22-Sep-09) [Online source] [PDF]
		Inventors look to crack electric car conundrum (EurActiv, 30-Jul-09)
		Israeli Start-Up Creates Turbine-Powered Hybrid From a Toyota Prius (MotorTrend, UK, 23-Jul-09)
		Whoosh! Israeli firm creates jet-engine-powered Toyota Prius (USA Today, 22-Jul-09)
		ETV Motors offers a jet engine for the greenies (GLOBES - Hebrew, 22-Jul-09)
		Israel's ETV Motors Develops Micro-Turbine Plug-in Hybrid (EV World, 22-Jul-09)
		Feature: Jet turbine could power hybrid electric car (Reuters 21-Jul-09)
		Jet turbine could power hybrid electric car (Scientific American 21-Jul-09)
		Jet turbine could power hybrid electric car (Forbes Magazine, 21-Jul-09)
		Jet turbine could power hybrid electric car (Interactive Investor UK, 21-Jul-09)
		Israeli Firm Developing Microturbine/Battery System for Plug-In Hybrid (Edmunds.com, 21-Jul-09)
		Jet turbine could power hybrid electric car (CNBC, 21-Jul-09)
		ETV Motors Building Hybrid Electric Car Powered by Jet Turbine Engine (Fast Company, 21-Jul-09)
		Environmentally friendly cars with laser ignitions and jet engines (Christian Science Monitor, 21-Jul-09)
		ETV Motors demonstrates extended-range Prius with microturbine (Autoblog Green, 13-Jul-09)
		ETV Motors Demonstrates Proof-of-Concept Microturbine-Based Range-Extended Electric Prius (Green Car Congress, 12-Jul-09)
		ETV Motors Revs Up $12M (Red Herring, 21-Apr-09)

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