Electric Vehicles & Sustainable Transportation
Schedule
Wed Sep 03 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
UNC-A, Reuter Center | Asheville, NC
September Program: Electric Vehicles & Sustainable Transportation
When: Wednesday, Sept. 3, at 7 p.m.
Where: Reuter Center of UNCA, 300 Campus View Drive, Asheville, room 102, and online via Zoom. Use this link to watch online.
https://unca-edu.zoom.us/j/85189349413?pwd=QmorsXPwjbS0BgiLR7xLItF3M1atab.1#success
Please join the WNC Sierra Club for our September meeting, when 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.
The WNC Sierra Club meets monthly in Room 102 at UNCA’s Reuter Center on Campus Drive and simultaneously on Zoom.
For more information, contact WNC Sierra Club Chair Judy Mattox at [email protected].
Parking at UNC Asheville: If you do not have a parking sticker from OLLI, you'll need to register for parking either ahead of time at unca.aimsparking.com or at the Reuter Center on the night of the meeting. The latest information about fees and requirements can be found at that link.
