Mail Stop 4628

                                                             August 30, 2018

Via E-Mail
David J. Rosenthal
Treasurer and Secretary
UQM Technologies, Inc.
4120 Specialty Place
Logmont, CO 80504

       Re:     UQM Technologies, Inc.
               Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2017
               Filed March 20, 2018
               File No. 1-10869

Dear Mr. Rosenthal:

        We have limited our review of your filing to your contacts with
countries that have been
identified as state sponsors of terrorism, and we have the following comments.
Our review with
respect to this issue does not preclude further review by the Assistant
Director group with respect
to other issues. In our comments, we ask you to provide us with information so
we may better
understand your disclosure.

       Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing
the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do
not believe our
comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your
response.

       After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional
comments.

General

   1. You discuss on page 1 your joint venture with Sinotruk (BVI) Limited, and
you disclose
      in your 2017 Definitive Proxy Statement that Sinotruk (BVI) Limited owns
9.7% of your
      common stock. We are aware of 2016 and 2017 reports that Sinotruk
vehicles carried
      missiles in military parades in North Korea, and were being used in a
North Korean
      mobile rocket artillery system. We note also that the transcript of a May
18, 2018 House
      Intelligence Committee Hearing on China's military expansion includes
testimony
      indicating that Sinotruk exports to North Korea parts that country uses
in the manufacture
      of trucks, including trucks built for missile transport, erection and
launch. Finally, we are
      aware of a report that Sinotruk military trucks were spotted in Syria in
2016. North
      Korea and Syria are subject to U.S. economic sanctions and are designated
by the State
      Department as state sponsors of terrorism. Please address for us the
potential for
 David J. Rosenthal
UQM Technologies, Inc.
August 30, 2018
Page 2

       reputational harm to you as a result of Sinotruk's products reportedly
being used in North
       Korea and Syria for military purposes.

        We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for
the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action
or absence of
action by the staff.

        You may contact Jennifer Hardy, Special Counsel, at (202) 551-3767 or
me at (202) 551-
3470 if you have any questions about the comments or our review.

                                                           Sincerely,

                                                           /s/ Cecilia Blye

                                                           Cecilia Blye, Chief
                                                           Office of Global
Security Risk

cc:    Amanda Ravitz
       Assistant Director