ENVIRONMENTAL
BUSINESS
CLUSTER
Improving the Environment One Company at a Time
The Electronic Transportation Development Center
The EBC and the City of San Jose are establishing the first facility in the United States to focus on the design and development of alternative fuels and hybrid commercial vehicles that meet homeland security needs. The Electronic Transportation Development Center (ETDC) will be a place where established and early-stage companies will focus on the design, development, commercialization, and prototype manufacturing of alternate fuel and hybrid electric and gas commercial vehicles that also meet homeland security needs.
Driven and supported by Silicon Valley's cutting-edge technology industries, the ETDC will be a place where both early-stage and established Silicon Valley companies can collaborate on commercial bus, truck and other projects and share laboratory and light manufacturing space. The ETDC's first product will be a demonstration hybrid bus powered by both electric and renewable clean energy that also showcases advanced transportation security technologies.
The ETDC addresses two issues of national importance: environmental protection and homeland security. The development of alternate fuels and renewable energy sources for transportation has the potential to reduce air pollution, thus improving the environment. By reducing dependence on foreign oil and creating safer commercial vehicles, the ETDC advances the goals of homeland security. Meanwhile, new business formation and technology partnerships will lead to new jobs.The development of many of Silicon Valley's traditional products require solving many of the same problems presented by the development clean energy commercial vehicles: such as comprehensive circuitry, battery life, weight reduction, overheating, energy management, system interconnectivity, decision logic, illumination, video displays, data logging, telemetry and energy efficiency. The use of electrical, rather than mechanical, ground transportation technologies is growing rapidly; software, electronics, and chip technologies will lead the advances in transportation technology in the next decade. Over two hundred technology companies, many of them located in San Jose , have been identified as potential contributors to the ETDC.
The Environmental Business Cluster will manage the Electronic Transportation Development Center project and assist emerging technology companies that participate in ETDC.
For further information, contact:
James Robbins
Executive Director
Environmental Business Cluster
408-938-3921
jarobbins@aol.com
www.environmentalcluster.org
