Electric Vehicles - Lunch and Learn

Put this on your calendar if you are interested in all-electric vehicles.

Topic: ASME Lunch and Learn: Electric Vehicles

I assume the talk will be about amateur conversion of regular cars to all-electric or plug-in hybrid operation because that is what members of TAEVA (Tallahassee Area Electric Vehicle Association) do.

Speaker: Andre Smith of TAEVA

When: Friday, June 26, 11:45 to about 1:15

Where: Ole Times Country Buffet

This is located on the east side of North Monroe, just north of Lake Ella and south of Tharpe Street, across the street from the Lake Ella Publix.

Details

Lunch starts between 11:45 an 12:10. I recommend getting there by 11:45. Just go in, pay your money at the register (one price for all meals at this place), then find the engineering group in one of the private dining areas. Speaker introduction and talk will be from 12:10 to 1:00 with time to inspect the cars in the parking lot before the group adjourns at 1:15 to go back to work.

I'm hoping the all-electric Miata will be there. (An article in the paper last month showed a "shade tree" conversion that replaced the engine with a bunch of DieHard batteries and an electric motor.)

Electric Vehicle Event (April 7)

Attention Solar Cart workers!

The Tallahassee Area Electric Vehicle Association (taeva.org) and Electric Auto Association (EAA) are having a special event in conjunction with a TAEVA chapter meeting on Tuesday, April 7, at 3 PM.

There will be hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and all-electric vehicles (including locally built conversions) on display, but the real attraction is the Spirit of FC plug-in hybrid that is on a tour of all US state capitals. That link takes you to the blog describing the tour. Today (April 3) they are on their way to Birmingham, Alabama, then on to the capital in Montgomery before heading to Tallahassee.

The meeting location, at the Tallahassee city "Fleet Management" center (400 Dupree St), is convenient to TCC so it would be easy to go over there after class on Tuesday afternoon. TAEVA has a map showing the meeting location on its website. Dupree is halfway between Appleyard and Mabry, south of Pensacola.

Innovative Architecture - Engineering

Check out this story from the BBC about a planned building in Dubai where each floor will rotate independently under the command of its owner.

• Dubail plans moving skyscraper

The building has 80 stories and is 420 m high, which is more than a quarter mile. The video showing a simulation of what it could look like is quite amazing.

In addition, there are wind turbines built into the building so it will generate its own power. There is a set of wind turbine blades between each floor of the building.

THINKING GREEN?

I received this FLYER from Ben Cowart (City of Tallahassee) ~~~