Sponsors:
 Hyundai is a sponsor of Illuminati Motor Works and our quest for the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE. Check out the Assurance Plus Program and the Genesis Forest Project. |
Current EV Tech is another sponsor of Illuminati Motor Works. |
 AEC: Fire, Safety & Security sponsored IMW by rushing us a Class D extinguisher at a discount. Visit them at www.aecfire.com |
Springfield Electric Supply Company is another sponsor of IMW. Check out their site. |
Parkway Motors is also sponsoring IMW. Check out their site. |
 Bender, Inc.: The Leader in Ground Fault Protection. Visit them at www.bender.org |
DC Coffee Products hooked us up with a commercial brewer for those late night "wired" sessions. Check them out at www.dccoffeeproducts.com |
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Victron Energy: Your supplier for Hybrid Power Solutions |
 Masterflux: AC & DC variable speed compressors and specialized thermal systems |
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Vector design of concept car and provided by Greg Spradlin. |
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However, we still need more sponors!! Contact us if you are interested in sponsoring the team. info@illuminatimotorworks.org
If everybody who visited the site in April gave $5, we would have raised $16,000. Every small donation helps us a lot and it adds up quickly.
Thanks to:
Donation Levels |
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| Dilithium Crystals ($1-$24.99) |
Daniel Armstrong, St. Louis, MO Albert Barbuto Jr, North Adams, MA Ross Cooper, Petersburg, IL Andrew Cox, Taylorville, IL Amy Crawford, Springfield, IL Mike Dragovich, Central IL Lucio Gasparetti, IL Untung Haryono, Netherlands Richard & Tricia Hendrix, Orlando, FL Nick Kaplan, Adrian, MI, Clark Lichty, Chicago, IL Mauro Marangon, Italy Dr. Paul Mach, Central IL Prominic, Rantoul, IL Sean Ramsay, Japan Kurt Timmerman, Lake Saint Louis, MO S Van Aller-De Buck, Netherlands Bjorn Vandenheede, Belgium Jennifer Wiziarde, Chicago, IL |
| Sub Light Engines ($25-$49.99) |
Gerri Alger, Chicago, IL Janean Baird, Bloomington, IL Christa and Todd Chockley, Hanover Park, IL Giuseppe Dia, Milano, Italy John Eylar, Colorado Springs, CO Mary Huetsch, Waterloo, IL Christine Hodak, Chicago, IL Ram Kuchibhotla, Glendale Heights, IL Bill Maulding, Riverton, IL Regina Walker, Dieterich, IL Wylde Radio, Chicago, IL Marilyn Smith, Park Forest, IL Mark Yarcho, Lincoln, IL |
| Flux Capaciters ($50-$99.99) |
Bruce Beazly, Springfield, IL Stephen Bellaire, New Orleans, LA Sue Davis, Chatham, IL Shelli and Lisa Jennings, Western Illinois Rose Johnson, Springfield, IL Gabriel Miller, Taylorsville, CA Ingunn Monsen, Norway George Montanaro, Evanston, IL Fred Mulacek, Viden, IL The Patel Family, Springfield, IL John Robitaille, Moore, SC Mike Sirach, Harrisburg, IL Erik Wilson, Chatham, IL |
| Warp Reactors ($100-$499.99) |
Mark and Bev Bennett, Benld, IL John and Tracy Cashman, Springfield, IL Nina Dugger, Rochester, IL Marvin Edwards, Springfield, IL Jim Howard, Ellicott City, MD Elizabeth Kennedy, Chicago, IL Jonathan Kennedy, Springfield, IL Stephen and Diane Moore, Bourbonnais, IL Mark Palmer, Divernon, IL Robin Speekenbrink, Netherlands Keith, Streamwood, IL Margaret Vaughan, Hinkley, IL Chris Ward, Chicago, IL |
| Hyper Drives ($500 and up) |
Anonymous, USA Mike, Danyell and Tyler Balfour, Apopka, FL "Uncle" Dan Braughton, Springfield, IL John and Audrey Coyle, Colorado Springs, CO Bill and June Hentze, Greenville, IL George Kennedy, Central IL |
Helping Hands:
Thanks to:
- Rural Electric Convenience Cooperative Co. of Auburn, IL, for donating a high quality sign for when Seven is on display.
- Finishmaster, 1013 East Laurel Street, Springfield, IL for donating the base and clear coat for Seven's silver paint job.
- Capital City Machine Shop, 2840 Adlai Stevenson Dr. for donating the facing and balancing of our flywheel.
- Nate Knappenburger, John Smith, Jonathan Kennedy, John Cashman, and Jason Schnepp for spending the coldest day of the winter cutting down trees and hauling firewood out to the IMW workshop.
- Capitol City Tool & Design, Inc. (217/544-9250 Springfield, IL) and Michael Moe, the owner. They did an outstanding job on the coupler that hooks the motor to the transmission and built us a custom flywheel. If you need custom couplers made, Mike’s your guy, not only is he an expert machinist he’s also an automotive enthusiast and has built several vehicles from the ground up designing and making all the parts himself, his knowledge and experience in this area was invaluable to us. THANKS MIKE!
- William Gregurich, Certified Public Accountant, 488 E Jackson, Auburn, IL. (217) 438-3982, for help with the business taxes.
- Francis Machine Shop, Wilmington, IL, for custom parts.
- Ross Cooper, Petersburg, IL, for engineering the wind tunnel for our tests.
- Nick and John Smith, Chicago suburbs, for help with the workshop expansion project, Firewoodapalooza, and all the hours spent working on Seven.
- Scotty's Quality Recycled Auto Parts, Virginia, IL for their automotive insight, enthusiasm, and help finding some needed parts for the project.
- David Hecht, Springfield, IL, for lending a hand with some of the physical gruntwork of recycling automotive parts and helping with the electrical work in the expanded workshop.
- Kertow Auto Salvage and Towing, Taylorville, IL for their help, knowledge, and good humor during the WIRED photo shoot.
- Central Illinois Concrete & Excavating, Springfield, IL for their help with the workshop expansion project and the WIRED photo shoot.
- The Illinois Recycling Association and Green Floors for their generousity at Green Build.