(UL: Northbrook, IL) -- Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a global provider of safety testing and certification, was recently named the exclusive nationally recognized testing laboratory for The EV Project, a groundbreaking study of electric vehicle (EV) charging station infrastructure. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with Electric Transportation Engineering Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of ECOtality Inc., to test and certify eTec’s vehicle charging stations that will be used in the project. UL joins eTec, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and more than 40 other partners embarking on the largest deployment of electric vehicles and charge infrastructure in history.  

The EV Project began in October 2009 when ECOtality’s eTec was awarded a federal stimulus grant of nearly $100 million from the DOE, and will deploy 4,700 zero-emissions vehicles, the Nissan LEAF, for the three-year study. The vehicles will be powered by 11,210 UL-listed charging stations in homes, and in commercial and public locations in five U.S. states: Arizona (Phoenix and Tucson), Washington (Seattle), Oregon (Portland, Salem, Corvallis, and Eugene), California (San Diego) and Tennessee (Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville). 

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