SAE NW Technical Event: Seattle’s Clean Transportation Electrification Blueprint

ADD THIS MEETING TO YOUR CALENDAR:

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SAE NW Technical event: Seattle’s Clean Transportation Electrification Blueprint with Andrea Pratt, Climate and Transportation Advisor for the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Sustainability & Environment on Nov 16, 2021, 5 PM Pacific.

Seattle’s Transportation Electrification Blueprint is a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive citywide plan that outlines how the City will move toward a clean and equitable transportation system to reduce climate emissions and air pollution, increase electric mobility options, and create a pipeline of green jobs and workforce diversity. The result of this collective, multi-departmental effort is a 2030 vision for Seattle’s electrified future and outlines concrete actions City departments will take over the next two years that will make progress towards those goals.

Andrea Pratt manages the citywide transportation electrification program and works to advance policy, pilots, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement and pushing market transformation to electrify everything that moves people, goods and services. Her efforts are centered on racial equity and environmental justice. She coordinated and authored Seattle’s Transportation Electrification Blueprint:

Registration is open for hybrid and electrical vehicle technical meeting event

Registration is now open for November 22 hybrid and electric vehicle technical event:

register.saebritishcolumbia.org

Dr. Mohamed Zaher will be our guest speaker for the meeting, discussing "what every automotive engineer needs to know" with regards to electric and highly-electrified vehicles.

This and more can be found in the November newsletter.

We hope to see you there!

Featured Company: Volterra

SAE BC is proud to support Volterra, a Vancouver-based software company with a focus on electric vehicle battery health management and performance. Check out their 3 job openings: backend developer, EV telematics engineer, and frontend developer on our website: https://www.saebritishcolumbia.org/p/job-postings.html 

Learn more about Volterra EVCare technology!   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avFemmF4waQ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr6Pfavfnlk

 

 

MCI battery bus sets a world distance record in BC

Canadian highway bus darling MCI had a demonstration coach run through the province recently, where it set an electric bus distance record, going from Vancouver to Kelowna on a single charge:

https://www.kamloopsbcnow.com/watercooler/money/news/Business/Electric_bus_to_set_world_record_on_Kamloops_to_Vancouver_trek/

The same bus had actually set the previous record on a prior trip, from Kelowna to Delta, but had so much charge left in reserve, the crew gained confidence that the trip could be done in reverse, climbing up the Coquihalla Highway.

Photo by Jay Munoz of Caption Photography Media

Congratulations to the team behind the vehicle, from engineering, to craftsmen to operators, and thank you for making beautiful British Columbia a part of the record attempt!

SAE BC Student Night

It's time to kick off another season of technical meetings with our annual traditional Student Night event:

October 2021 newsletter

Click on the newsletter link above for some more details.  The event will be October 18, 6:00 PM.  Register here:

register.saebritishcolumbia.org

Also within the newsletter is mention of the event topics survey, from our earlier post.  Make sure to have your say in what we get to cover this year:

survey.saebritishcolumbia.org

SURVEY: 2021/22 SAE Speaker Selection

SAEBC is back for a new season and we need your help to select excellent speakers for our webinars! Click here: survey.saebritishcolumbia.org

If you recall last year, we had great success hosting speakers with topics like lightweight design, vehicle assembly manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, race car history, and Lyft's Mirai ride sharing.

 

 

UVic Formula Racing speakers lineup

The UVic Formula SAE team has rounded up an exciting lineup of speakers for mobility engineering, racing, and electrical vehicle engineering in particular.  See the lineup here:

Wednesdays at 7 PM, if you would like to attend, just click on this Zoom link at the appropriate meeting start times in order to participate:

https://uvic.zoom.us/j/83651281189?pwd=dDBSejg5ekdrZHd5K3l6UFB0Wmkvdz09

This is quite the lineup of industry experts in their respective topics, so big thank you to the UVic Formula team for coordinating and sharing this resource with all of us!