WestStart-CALSTART Seeks Blue Sky Award Nominations for 2001

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WestStart-CALSTART Seeks Blue Sky Award Nominations for 2001

Deadline for Nominations is August 16th

CALIFORNIA, PASADENA, Jun. 10 -/E-Wire/-- WestStart-CALSTART is seeking nominations of individuals, companies or organizations for its Blue Sky Award(TM) and Charles R. Imbrecht Blue Sky Innovation Award for 2001. Presented annually, the Blue Sky Award is an international designation given for outstanding marketplace contributions to advanced, sustainable transportation that cleans the air, improves energy efficiency and helps reduce greenhouse emissions. The Blue Sky Innovation Award was created in 1999 to recognize innovative actions taken to develop future markets for advanced, sustainable transportation. The Award was named in honor of Charles Imbrecht, former chairman of the California Energy Commission.

Prospective award recipients can be manufacturers, developers or users of advanced transportation technologies and services. Blue Sky Award recipients can be selected for bringing new vehicles or vehicle technology to the market; for significant commitment to the use of clean transportation options; for significant technology breakthroughs that affect the marketplace or any combination of the above. Blue Sky Innovation Award recipients can be selected for innovative actions in pushing a new technology, product or service toward the marketplace.

Past winners include: Pickens Fuel Corporation (2000); Ed Huestis, City of Vacaville (2000); Ford Motor Company (1999); the U.S. Post Office (1998); Toyota (1997); General Motors (1996). Merit winners include: IMPCO Technologies (2000); Enova Systems (2000); SunLine Transit Agency (1997); Santa Barbara MTD (1998); James Worden, Solectria (1997); Ballard Power Systems (1997); Alan Cocconi, AC Propulsion (1998); Paul MacCready, AeroVironment (1998); and Joe Ferguson, Advanced Vehicle Systems (1999). The first recipient of the Blue Sky Innovation Award for 1999 was the California Fuel Cell Partnership for its innovative leadership in pushing fuel cell technology toward the marketplace and the South Coast Air Quality Management District in 2000 for implementing the most far-reaching alternative fuel fleet rules in the nation.

Individuals interested in submitting nominations should contact CALSTART for nomination forms and fax, mail, or e-mail the form to our offices at WestStart-CALSTART, 2181 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91107, Attn: Blue Sky Award, Tel: 626/744-5600; Fax: 626/744-5610; E-mail: [REDACTED-EMAIL]. Or visit our web site at www.calstart.org and submit your nomination electronically. For questions, please contact either Carolyn Riehn or Susan Romeo. Deadline for nominations is Friday, August 16th, 2002.

WestStart-CALSTART is an advanced transportation technologies organization that focuses on developing new, clean technologies and solutions in transportation. Working with private partners worldwide, WestStart-CALSTART provides technology development and demonstration, industry analysis, marketing, business development and fleet implementation services. Its expertise includes electric vehicles, natural gas vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and fuel-cell technologies.

Susan Romeo, 626/744-5600

http://www.calstart.org

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