Adelaide 13th April – Branch Meeting
ATA South Australia branch meeting
When: Tuesday 13th April 2010
Time: 7.30pm
Where: Enfield Community Centre, 540 Regency Road, Enfield.
Entry fee: Gold coin donation to assist with hall hire.
Program for the evening:
Presentation – Two-seater Renewable Energy Vehicle
UniSA’s Two-seater Renewable Energy Vehicle (Trev) has been entered in the around-the-world Zero Race. See the Team Trev web site http://teamtrev.com/ for details.
Trev has travelled 3000 km from Darwin to Adelaide in the Global Green Challenge and Team Trev will join fellow electric vehicles in Zero Race—an 80 day trip around the world powered entirely by renewable energy.
The Zero Emissions Race, starting in June 2010, is the brainchild of Louis Palmer who in 2008 became the first person to drive a solar powered car, the Solartaxi, around the world. This global event is planned to stimulate worldwide public interest in zero emission transport, electric vehicle technology and renewable energy.
Andrew Dickson (Team Director) and Peter Pudney (Technical Manager) of Team Trev will explain the Trev project, the car’s design and the Zero Race.
Andrew is a project manager with large scale wind farm consultancy firm Wind Prospect. Peter is a mathematician with UniSA with a long hands-on association with electric vehicles and solar car racing.
Who Can Help Me?
There’s also a segment called:-
- Who Can Help Me – which is a chance to pose questions such as:
- Where can I buy it?
- How do I do it?
- Does anybody know about…?
If you have anything of interest to show and tell or an event to report during this segment, bring it along.
Other events and news
May ATA meeting
11th May: Presenter Tony Foster: Smart grids – what they are and what they do. A pilot project to install smart grid devices into several government buildings will soon start. Tony will explain demand, how demand is controlled, how this affects costs and the economic benefits.
Home Show
There’s been a good response by volunteers for the ATA stand at the Home Show over Anzac weekend. We still need a couple of people for Sunday 25th morning or afternoon.
Other events
Thursday 22 April, 9.00am at UniSA.
The Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies will host a postgraduate colloquium in which students will present their research projects to peers, industry representatives and interested members of the public. For further details contact Pamela Phillips, Pamela.Phillips@unisa.edu.au. Ph 8302 3061.
