It hasn't started building its own yet, but start-up electric delivery van maker Bright Automotive has started a consulting business offering services to other automakers interested in electric powertrains, lightweight materials techniques and general manufacturing efficiency. Those things are specialties of Bright , formed at the beginning of 2008 by battery specialist John Waters – he designed the battery pack for GM's renowned/notorious (take your pick) EV1. The company's IDEA commercial van prototype features a plug-in hybrid powertrain that mates a gas engine and an electric drive system and is hundreds of pounds lighter and far more aerodynamic – thus four or five times more fuel efficient – than competing vans of the same load capacity. The new offshoot, called Bright eSolutions, is an in-house consulting and engineering operation offering to apply Bright's staff and their learnings from the IDEA development process to customers' projects. The group launched the new business unit today in conjunction with the announcement of its first contract- with the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Command (TACOM)
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