Grants Awarded

Drive Oregon has made the following grants to support the growth of Oregon’s electric vehicle industry:

Recipient Location Amount Date Purpose
Polaris Advanced Battery Research and Development Center Portland  $50,000 Jun-12 To accelerate commercialization of battery technologies for a wide range of companies developing new products.
Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC) Portland  $44,100 Jun-12 To support an electric bicycle demonstration project with Conscious Commuter.
Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) Klamath Falls  $15,000 Jun-12 For purchase of an advanced transportation modeling tool, dSPACE Advanced Control Education Kit 1103, to support work by Jim Long and his colleagues in modeling, simulation, and development of motor control algorithms.
KersTech Portland  $16,000 Jun-12 To support modeling, design, and development of its compound hydraulic-electric hybrid motor technology for use on transit buses
RYNO Motors Portland  $50,000 Sep-12 To produce a pre-production run of their self-balancing single-wheel electric motorcycles in Portland.
EV4Oregon Portland  $42,000 Sep-12 For a pilot project to produce and install a unique electric vehicle charging station in Tualatin that allows DC “quick charging” in areas with limited grid capacity.
LBCC Foundation Lebanon  $50,000 Feb-13 Support purchase of a AC/EC Hybrid (“chassis”) dynamometer for the college’s Advanced Transportation Technology Center.
KersTech Portland  $20,000 Feb-13 Design, build, install and comprehensive testing of a version of KersTech’s high efficiency hydraulic-electric compound motor system in an agricultural electric utility vehicle.
Arcimoto Eugene  $50,000 Feb-13 Finance the first pilot production run of Arcimoto vehicles.
Portland State University Portland  $4,926 Feb-13 Impact analysis of electric vehicles on electric power distribution systems, using data gathered from Electric Avenue.
Oregon State University Corvallis  $5,000 Feb-13 Research on DC link capacitor size reduction to create analytical and numerical tools that can aid in the design of reduced-cost, higher performance traction inverters.