You folks with all the negative comments need to read a little more. Over the past 15 years Dr. Alex Severinsky and the Abell Foundation of Baltimore spent Millions of dollars developing and marketing his ideas and proving the concepts. A PAICE proof of concept hybrid was producing remarkable results in test @ Rousch Engineering labs in Dearborn Michigan more than 10 years ago. At that time PAICE together with their partner Lockheed Martin Control Systems made demonstration presentations to all the big three US auto makers. But in typical fashion the arrogant auto executives dismissed these patented concepts. Their attitude is usually "not invented here" and we know how to do it better when and if we ever decide we need it. Well I wonder, had anyone of them grabbed it then and put hybrids out there in the early 2000's might they have avoided the catastrophy of 2008 and 2009.
Alex made a few trips to toyota headquarters in Japan around this same time. He offered them very fairly priced license agreements, but they chose the bumpy road. Alex together with other PAICE team members including Ted Louckes and Doc Watson continued to work tirelessly for many years to convince auto execs and engineers in Asia, Europe and the US of the merits of PAICE technology.
Industry should understand our Patent system like McCormick and Edison did and like Maytag and Westinghouse do. Perhaps Alex has an even greater appreciation for it coming from the Soviet Union where his brilliant ideas belonged to the state, it must have seemed like heaven to him when he first became a citizen of this great land that creates all men equal and allows them to own their own ideas and land and fruits of their labor.
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PAICE/Severinsky
You folks with all the negative comments need to read a little more. Over the past 15 years Dr. Alex Severinsky and the Abell Foundation of Baltimore spent Millions of dollars developing and marketing his ideas and proving the concepts. A PAICE proof of concept hybrid was producing remarkable results in test @ Rousch Engineering labs in Dearborn Michigan more than 10 years ago. At that time PAICE together with their partner Lockheed Martin Control Systems made demonstration presentations to all the big three US auto makers. But in typical fashion the arrogant auto executives dismissed these patented concepts. Their attitude is usually "not invented here" and we know how to do it better when and if we ever decide we need it. Well I wonder, had anyone of them grabbed it then and put hybrids out there in the early 2000's might they have avoided the catastrophy of 2008 and 2009.
Alex made a few trips to toyota headquarters in Japan around this same time. He offered them very fairly priced license agreements, but they chose the bumpy road. Alex together with other PAICE team members including Ted Louckes and Doc Watson continued to work tirelessly for many years to convince auto execs and engineers in Asia, Europe and the US of the merits of PAICE technology.
Industry should understand our Patent system like McCormick and Edison did and like Maytag and Westinghouse do. Perhaps Alex has an even greater appreciation for it coming from the Soviet Union where his brilliant ideas belonged to the state, it must have seemed like heaven to him when he first became a citizen of this great land that creates all men equal and allows them to own their own ideas and land and fruits of their labor.