The company has become a prominent player in the so-called smart grid market because its communication technologies help utilities collect and manage energy consumption data from customers quickly.
Foster rethought this completely and realized huge savings in structural mass and energy consumption could be made by shifting the utilities underground, leaving a floating roof and walls that could open to natural daylight.
Elliott says he has orders for some 200 trucks from such outfits as electric utilities (which want to encourage their use to increase electricity consumption).