UQM helps juice Young’s LincVolt

The LincVolt is one of Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young’s pet projects, started years ago.

It’s a 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV convertible that a team of smart people Young assembled converted to a plug-in electric hybrid. Young is using the LincVolt and his notoriety to raise awareness about what he perceives as dangers the world faces if alternative fuels aren’t adopted more widely.

The project has had its fits and starts, including a fire in 2010 caused by a faulty charging system that Young said “burned it to the ground.” But after several years of intense design, sweat labor and a lot…