"Get in Charge of Your Energy"
One way to get better fuel economy is to optimize driver performance with a OBD-II dashboard mounted driver behavior coach, code named, the “Eco Orb”.
Ron Gremban and Charlie Johnson quietly prepared their electronic control system for a crowdfunding campaign that could be a “first of it’s kind”, to be used in tandem with their Plug-In Hybrid Prius Upgrade, to improve fuel economy safely.
Led by SDRES board member and UCSD Engineering professor, Kurt Lund, PE, the Engineer’s for a Sustainable World design and build the cage to be mounted on a trailer, to raise and deploy a 2kW DC solar array.
Our advisor Kurt, a professional engineering consultant, graciously opened his garage, tools and skill up to us for building the cage. As a group of undergraduate engineers (and one Psychology Major), we knew we had many hours ahead of us and plenty of “learning incidents” (where we completely mucked a few things up and had to fix it), but that’s why we started this project in the first place. -Joseph Ocampo, Wipomo Research Intern