Startup Boulder Power Technologies launches lithium-ion generators

BOULDER – Clean-tech startup Boulder Power Technologies LLC today is officially launching a lithium ion-based portable generator with aims of taking a bite out of the gas-powered generator industry.

Boulder-based Boulder Power Technologies’ PowerTap 2000 is initially available for order on the company’s website to people in Colorado, with a full rollout nationally planned for the second quarter.

“It represents some big advantages over what’s available now,” chief commercial officer Rod Ruble said in a phone interview.

Aimed at all kinds of industries from construction to camping to events to mobile businesses like food trucks, the PowerTap is touted as providing 2,000 watts…