A six-year-old power play and its three-year-old sister startup are providing something truly unique on Long Island – a two-headed engineering enterprise with the ability to empower the powerless.
That could have many interpretations, but it takes a fairly literal spin at Unique Technical Services, a 2012 launch and member of Stony Brook University’s Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center, and Smithtown-based Unique Electric Solutions, that slightly younger sibling.
With a heavy (though not exclusive) focus on the transportation industries, UTS concentrates technologically on energy storage, control and power systems and other engineering challenges to “pretty much electrifying anything,” according to founder and General Manager Joseph Ambrosio.
“We basically repower anything that’s not electric and make it run on electricity,” noted Ambrosio, also UTS’s chief technology officer. “The skills required to do that are part of our core strengths, and we can apply these toolkits to electrify many different types of equipment.”
At UES, the focus is most certainly focused on transportation exclusively. The three-year-old spinoff, where Ambrosio serves as a managing member, concentrates on electric and hybrid vehicle conversions – turning traditional combustion-engine cars and trucks into less-greenhouse-gassy versions of their former selves.