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Joule mobility at SciFest 2010
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
SciFest Africa recently took place in Grahamstown and Optimal Energy’s Annie Bekker was included on the programme to shed light on Joule and the concept behind Imagineering mobility.
Her workshops and talks were focused on exploring how comfort and appeal in a motor vehicle is affected by vibration and noise, and the solutions that can be engineered to reduce these effects, which Joule is all about.
Bekker joined Optimal Energy in 2008 as an engineer after completing her PhD in Mechanical Engineering, with a focus on the dynamic characterisation of bone material.
She was inspired to venture into engineering when on vacation in Mozambique she witnessed the visible effect of landmines and she was working on a project on injury mitigation in development of landmine resistant vehicles.
Joule is built to transform the driving and owning experience, as an electric car, through its smooth and silent drive
We hope that all those who attended SciFest participated in and enjoyed some of the insights that were shared by Bekker.
Posted in: Electric Vehicles, Joule Project
David Jeffrey Walker says:
5 May 2010 at 10:57 am
I just wondered wether the designers of our Joule ever thought of using an untapped source to generate electricity while the car is on the move to recharge the batteries partialy and so extend the range of the vehicle, how? by installig a turbine using the hydraulic power from the shock absorbers to drive the turbine, the more uneven the road the more the power generated, especialy on our potholed roads. The turbine blades are shaped like an aircraft wing and no matter wether the fluid is moving in or out of the turbine, the blades and turbine still spin in one direction only and so doing generates electricity to charge the batteries without taking any performance away from the motor.
Jeff Walker
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