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Switch Vehicles, Inc. Peter Oliver Co-Founder James McGreen Co-Founder Sebastopol, CA
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Switch Vehicles, Inc.
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Who we are: Peter Oliver – former adjunct faculty Santa Rosa Junior College, founder owner of largest independent IT company 1985 -2005 James McGreen – former motorcycle racer, manufacturer of ultra light aircraft parts, started electrathon racing, founded ZAP (Zero Air Pollution) 1991 left in 1999 – invented the ZAPPY
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Switch Vehicles, Inc. Fun, Affordable, Useful Electric Vehicles Located in Sebastopol since 2011 Educational hands on Project Based Learning STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Initial Education deliveries in 2012
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The SWITCH Lab Hands on building experience Electrical:Motors Speed Controllers Batteries Charging Lights/Instruments
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The SWITCH Lab Hands on building experience Chassis:Suspension Steering Brakes Co-efficient of drag Efficiency
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The SWITCH Lab Train the teachers! 5 day Workshops Provide lesson plans, curriculum Opportunity to build an electric vehicle in class! What do educators think? Raj Dhillon Raj Dhillon – Saddleback College – Arriving next week to close on two systems for his school and 2 more for other colleges Mark Barrall Mark Barrall – College of Marin. PO in process for 1 system
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The SWITCH Lab Challenges: Long Sales Cycles Competition for Funds Project Awareness? What’s a Switch?
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The Switch Lab Solutions: We raise the funds: Sonoma Clean Power We recruit schools to teach The SWITCH Lab Partnership with CTE Foundation
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Future Upside – Who Wins Students! E xample of 12 trained instructors (Done in January of 2015) two semesters per year 25 students per class 10 year estimated product life 6,000 students from single training Lab costs approximately $40 per student
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The SWITCH Lab There are over 30,000 High Schools in US Over 10,000 colleges and trade schools 1% market is over $8,000,000 in sales
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The SWITCH Lab STEM Based curriculum Project Based Learning Innovation for instructors and students Switch Vehicles, Inc.Peter@SwitchVehicles.com 380 Morris Street, Suite BJim@SwitchVehicles.com Sebastopol, CA 95472 TheSWITCHLab.com
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