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Project Title: 1976 Porsche 914 BEV Conversion Project Type: Team mechanical and electrical engineering Project Status: Ongoing, but I am no longer involved Project Description: Shortly after arriving at MIT, I began to go through withdrawal. I was not spending nearly enough time driving cars, let alone working on them. A friend of mine suggested I join the MIT Electric Vehicle Team, a small group of students who were in the process of converting a 1976 Porsche 914 into a battery electric vehicle. They had been working on the project for years but had not yet driven the car, so I joined the team not expecting much. Still, I was hopeful and excited for the chance to spin some wrenches and learn about emerging technology. After several months of hard work reading datasheets and rewiring incorrectly laid HV cable, we were ready to spin the motor for the first time. After a few false starts, it spun! The whirring sound was totally surreal and, while encouraging, was a reminder of just how foreign this technology was to me. The team, newly motivated, made rapid progress and we had the car driving within a month. At this point, team membership was low but we wanted to grow. The team wrote a new constitution and held elections for officers, and I was selected to be the undergraduate team president. I spent several happy months in this position, but my other hobbies were demanding more and more time. EVT began to branch out, researching rapid recharge and aero efficiency, and it was hard to keep up. With the team membership tripled and new, capable leadership selected, I left the team to pursue the development of my startup company, Course Zero Automation which was commercializing my inertial navigation unit, as well as to spend time with my other research projects. Today, I can see myself returning to the team (or joining another EV group) as both a way of relaxing and as a subject of new research. EVs are in desperate need of a new OBD system, and range anxiety still does not have a complete solution.

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