AeroVironment, Inc.

Here is a cool company that is on the cutting edge of the "green movement", and they are headquartered right here in Los Angeles. While their main line of business is in unmanned aircraft systems, recently, Aerovironment has been focusing their efforts on clean technology solutions.

One of these solutions is the PosiCharge EV fast charge system that allows industrial, electric vehicles and machines to perform more work and use less energy. It has been helping manufacturers cut costs, reduce CO2 emissions, and be more energy efficient in business operations. AeroVironment has been working with GM to integrate this technology with the technology used in hybrid and electric cars. Together, they have relesed the GM Impact prototype and are working on furthering the electric car market.

AeroVironment also has a business sector that provides an array of engineering services focused on clean transportation and clean energy. Some of their past projects were things like the universal solar pump contoroller, a clean water system designed to harvest solar energy used to facilitate water pumping to remote areas. They also have worked on projects that set up wind turbines on office buildings in a way that helped supply some of the buildings energy while adding to the asthetics and architectual design of the building.

AeroVironment is one company that is doing their part to help the world be more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.