Learn about Electric Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation

Automotive engineer Dave Erb will discuss sustainable transportation, with a particular focus on electric vehicles. Ample time will be provided for audience questions and discussion.

In a four-decade automotive engineering career which began in the heavy truck and transit bus industry and ended in academia, Dave Erb developed vehicles employing gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, alcohol, electric, and hybrid electric power trains.

From 1995 through 2004, he created and taught a three day professional development short course on "Design of Hybrid Electric Vehicles" for the Society of Automotive Engineers, training well over a thousand practicing engineers how to approach HEV design. He was a member of the Asheville Transit Commission for over six years. He wrote Chapter 1 of David Hrivnak's "Driving to Net 0: Stories of Hope for a Carbon-Free Future," a collection of 15 first person accounts of families who have combined electric vehicles with solar houses and other sustainability strategies. Dave and his wife live in a beyond net zero house, and haven't bought gasoline since 2019.

This is the monthly meeting of the WNC Sierra Club. If you happen to be in Asheville, it is in Room 102 at UNCA’s Reuter Center on Campus Drive and simultaneously on Zoom. Use this link to watch online.