Our Prototype Electric Shuttle

American Electric Vehicles (AEV) is passionate about electric vehicles. We long ago concluded that the ideal electric vehicle must be designed from the ground up to maximize efficiency, reduce weight, and optimize component packaging, and it should use the best available batteries, chargers, motors, and controllers. We also realized that the best market niche would be one where the vehicle could be driven a maximum of revenue miles per charge (intensity of use) within a predictable context. These twin business objectives of intensity and predictability led us to the all-electric shuttle bus application. We hope you enjoy reviewing our website as we describe our A6.7C production shuttle, a 22-foot (6.7 m) vehicle designed for fleets worldwide.

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Chris Groesbeck at DTW

2011-7-27 AEV Attends Charge Station Ceremony

Detroit, Michigan

AEV President, Chris Groesbeck, and Vice-President, Paul Kaplan, attended the DTE Energy ceremony held today at Detroit Metro Airport (DTW) where two Clipper Creek charge stations were installed. AEV views airport-based customers (such as car rental companies, hotels and parking lot operators) as a large and receptive market for its electric shuttles. Mr. Groesbeck commented, "The opportunities to use our shuttle at airports is tremendous. We welcome the introduction of the Clipper Creek charge stations as a great step forward in facilitating the use of all electric vehicles at large international airports like Detroit Metro Airport."

DTE Energy also announced that its installation of the four Clipper Creek Plug-in Electric Vehicle charging stations at Detroit Metro Airport is part of a more comprehensive program to deploy 16 such public charging stations throughout southeastern Michigan.

	2011-07-14 AEV Opens Office in Denver, Colorado Denver, Colorado This Denver office will initially serve as a corporate and sales office for AEV. The office is located at the Colorado Center for Renewable Energy and Economic Development (CREED) at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Golden, Colorado. In conjunction with this move, AEV has joined CleanLaunch, the cleantech incubator located in Denver, Colorado. The move to the Denver area brings AEV into the heart of the burgeoning Cleantech community of entrepreneurs, scientists, government and investors all located within the triangle formed by Golden, Denver and Boulder. With its 11 employees, AEV is among the larger early stage cleantech employers in the state, and a strong presence was needed in Denver. This office offers a convenient location near both downtown and Denver International Airport, easily accommodating meetings with investors and customers from around the country. "We are very confident that this move will help us to achieve our business objectives,” stated Chris Groesbeck, American Electric Vehicles’ President.
	2011-04-04 Paul Kaplan Joins AEV Denver, Colorado American Electric Vehicles, Inc. is proud to announce that Paul Kaplan has joined the company as Vice-President, Strategic Development. Mr. Kaplan will have responsibility for developing and maintaining high level relationships with enterprise customers, key vendors and other strategic business partners. He will also be AEV’s primary liaison with the company’s outside professional advisors, including legal and accounting, as well as with the company’s investors. Mr. Kaplan has spent the last five years investing, advising, and providing services to a number of early stage companies. Prior to that, Mr. Kaplan was a transactional attorney, advising his public and private clients' executive management teams on a variety of legal matters including mergers and acquisitions, business relationships, financing, and general corporate matters. Mr. Kaplan is a 1983 graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and from Boston University School of Law in 1986.	Paul Kaplan
AEV Prototype at Busworld	2011-03-30 AEV at Busworld Conference Shanghai, China We recently displayed our prototype shuttle at the Busworld 2011 exhibition in Shanghai together with our manufacturing partner, Bonluck Business Bus of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. At the exhibition Bonluck and AEV jointly announced the establishment of a New Energy Center at Bonluck’s facility in Nanchang. “New Energy” is the expression used in Chinese for clean and green electric propulsion.
	2010-12-09 AEV Tests its A6.7C Shuttle in China Nanchang, Jiangxi Province AEV and its manufacturing partner, Bonluck Business Bus, recently completed two days of efficiency testing of AEV's left-hand-drive prototype electric shuttle at the Bonluck facility. The tests yielded typical shuttle service ranges of 89/133 km (55/83 mi) for the shuttle with/without air-conditioning using 90% of its battery energy. The shuttle is slated for production during the second quarter of 2011. With its larger battery pack (100 kWh) the production shuttle will have a longer range than the prototype, which has a 72kWh pack.	GPS Test Route
PM 100DX Controller	2010-12-03 AEV Tests its Second Generation Controller Palmer Lake, Colorado Today AEV drove its test vehicle (an electric passenger van) powered by our proprietary second generation HS300 IPM motor and an RMS PM100DX controller. The vehicle’s performance was very smooth and quiet. A small amount of cogging was noticed during low speed startup, but much less than a multi-speed clutched gas or diesel vehicle would experience. Dr. Dan Rivers, AEV’s CEO, stated that AEV is currently developing its third generation drive train to power the production shuttle. That drive train will exhibit higher startup torque to give the shuttle both excellent acceleration and gradeability of 25% or more at GVWR.
	2010-11-17 AEV Digital Control System (DCS)Incorporates Parker Hannifin Display Palmer Lake, Colorado AEV has integrated a software customizable instrument panel developed and manufactured specifically for electric vehicles by Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE: PH). AEV has also leveraged the resources of Parker Hannifin’s Electronic Controls Division (ECD) by developing a robust vehicle management system (VMS). Together, these will yield a state-of-the-art system for the production version of the Shuttle	Your Driver Will Love Our Cockpit
AEV-Bonluck Meeting	2010-09-21 AEV Signs Manufacturing Agreement Nanchang, Jiangxi Province American Electric Vehicles, Inc. (AEV) signed a manufacturing agreement with China’s Bonluck Business Bus to assemble its vehicles for markets around the globe. In addition to manufacturing, the agreement also allows AEV to sell buses in China, India, and North America. Chris Groesbeck, AEV Director of Business Development, commented, "This is the second agreement that we have signed with Bonluck. The relationship with them has been a good one, based on trust and the common goal of designing, building, and selling electric fleet vehicles worldwide."	Bonluck Headquarters

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