Amory Lovins

Contact Information

Boulder Location
Rocky Mountain Institute
Attn: MOVE Consulting
1820 Folsom Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302

Snowmass Location
Rocky Mountain Institute
Attn: MOVE Consulting
2317 Snowmass Creek Road
Snowmass, Colorado 81654

e-mail: MOVE@rmi.org

Phone
Snowmass (970) 927-3851
Boulder (303) 245-1003

Amory Lovins

Amory B. Lovins is cofounder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute. Amory has been a thought leader in the transportation industry for decades.  He currently works with the MOVE Team on key technologies and trends, and provides additional strategic insight. Mr. Lovins combines his knowledge of key best practices in transport with those of other sectors, helping MOVE bring wholesystems thinking to our work and research.

Currently, Mr. Lovins serves on the Transformational Advisory Council at Ford Motor Company, a group that advises Chairman Bill Ford on moving Ford into the next generation of transportation.

Achievements:
In 2007, he was awarded the Volvo Environmental Prize, the Blue Planet Prize, and Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Leadership Award. He also contributes expertise and insight on transportation to a wide range of publications. He also works extensively with RMI's Built Environment and Energy and Resources Teams.

Mr. Lovins's 1991 invention of a highly integrated ultralight-hybrid Hypercar® concept won the 1993 Nissan Prize at ISATA and the 1999 and 2003 World Technology Awards.

He has advised senior executives and development engineers at most of the world's automakers. These firms collectively committed some $10 billion to that general line of development, for reasons summarized by Robert Cumberford's features in the Oct./Nov. 1996 edition of Automobile.

In 1997, Mr. Lovins was named by Car Magazine the 22nd most powerful person in the global automotive industry.

In 1999, he spun off RMI's Hypercar Center into an independent for-profit technology development firm, Hypercar, Inc. In 2000, with two Tier One suppliers, the firm developed an uncompromised, competitively manufacturable virtual design for a quintupled-efficiency (114-mpg, 2.1 L/100 km) midsize fuel-cell SUV that would do 67 mpg (3.56 L/100 km) as a gasoline hybrid with a two-year U.S. or one-year E.U. payback (Further Details).

In 2003, the firm turned to the prerequisite for producing such cars: a manufacturing process for cost-competitive ultralight carbon-composite autobodies and other high-performance structures. Now doing business as Fiberforge, Inc., the firm has validated and is commercializing its patented midvolume process by selling samples, small pilot runs, and development services to OEMs and Tier Ones and by selling technology licenses and manufacturing equipment. Mr. Lovins still serves as Chairman Emeritus of FiberForge.

A consultant physicist educated at Harvard and Oxford, Mr. Lovins received an Oxford MA (by virtue of being a don), nine honorary doctorates, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Heinz, Lindbergh, and Time Hero for the Planet Awards, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, the Shingo, Lindbergh, Mitchell, "Alternative Nobel," and Onassis Prizes, and an Hon. AIA; held visiting chairs (2007 MAP/Ming Professor in Stanford's Engineering School); briefed 19 heads of state; published 29 books and several hundred papers; and consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide.

The Wall Street Journal's Centennial Issue named Mr. Lovins among 39 people in the world most likely to change the course of business in the 1990s, and Newsweek described him as, "one of the Western world's most influential energy thinkers."

Publications:
Mr. Lovins' books include: