ECOtality announced today that it has appointed Donald B. Karner to the Board of Directors. Mr. Karner has thirty years of engineering and technical project management experience, fifteen of which was in the electric utility industry where he developed and implemented strategic guidience for engineering, operating and maintenance organizations ranging in size from ten to three thousand people in nuclear, fossil, environmental and rate-making industries.
The new Director also has extensive background in advanced vehicle design and fueling infrastructure as he is the co-founder and president of Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec). In addition to this background, he has the experience of working as a Technical Manager for the US Department of Energy Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity where he has directed more than 6 million miles of vehicle testing and evaluated more than two hundred advanced fuel vehicles.
Jonathan Read, President and CEO of ECOtality, stated, “Mr. Karner’s tremendous knowledge and experience in energy production, storage and utilization, combined with his relationships with government agencies, electrical utilities and major automotive manufacturers, makes him a perfect fit for ECOtality’s Board of Directors. As Mr. Karner possesses extensive technical management experience and is the current project manager of Hydrality, he will play an important role in advancing the commercial development of ECOtality’s technology portfolio and will add invaluable insight to our Board and Technology Committee.”
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