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I Sunnyvale High School class of 1970 graduate. I majored in Electronics and Math (IC chips were just being manufactured back then). My first day as a freshman was a school-wide wake for the 1966 seniors that came back from the Vietnam War in body bags. What a great way to make a wake-up-call about a male student's future. |
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Though I had the grades and interest, I had no parental support to go to College. So, with the Vietnam War in its fifth year, I joined the Air Force to keep from being drafted. -more- |
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An avid gardener in my plot of white popcorn as President of the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Garden Club in Cupertino, CA . After the popcorn was harvested and dried, an ear of kernels were freshly popped each afternoon break for the Cupertino HP Electronic Maintenance (computer repair) shop technicians (where I worked). -more- |
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A group image at EVS12 held December 1994 at the Anaheim, CA Disneyland Hotel. The holding of signs were a response to a News Reporter (PJ) that stated the whole EVS12 event only interesting to tree hugging, eco-dweeb, nerds, and not to the 'real public' (Oil Company paid 'EVs will never work' rhetoric). The people shown were also EV reporters like myself. The EV shown lower right was the Renaissance Cars Tropica on display out on the EVS12 show floor. |
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With my long legs, I was an avid hiker. See the Northern California Pinnacles in the background. I also enjoyed walking up Sanborn's mountain roads amoungst their huge oaks and Redwoods. Castle Rock Park off Skyline was particularly interesting with huge rock formations. HP had their own Private Redwood Park called Little Basin which is just outside of the public Big Basin State Park. On the north Bay, I enjoyed walking at Tennesse Valley. At the end of the trail is two cliff's of different colored rock. The beach is made of small pebbles of those two rocks which people picked up for making hippy jewery. |
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I promoted Electric Vehicles (EVs) to turn gear-head mind's around to accept EVs, a couple of my HP coworkers posed as "Car Kittens". It worked very well and I used those images for several years. My thanks to those co-workers. |
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NBEAA meeting in 1994 that met in Petaluma, CA. The left EV is a 70's vintage Sebring Citicar EV (aka a Cheese wedge), and on the right Chuck Hursch's VW Rabbit EV conversion. The image was taken by a local newspaper and then later the paper black and white photograph was scanned in to an image file. |
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EV parking spot for charging my 1985 S-10 Chevy Blazer Electric conversion while at work at the Hewlett-Packard in Sunnyvale, CA. In the early 1990's driving an EV was almost unheard of. I charged my EV at home with a long cord from my Sunnyvale Apt. I took over for the first three hp-labs engineers that ask Bill Hewlett to put in EV charging at work. Bill Hewlett was so impressed he put it in the employee's guidelines. I as able to put in orders for EV charging at hp sites that had employees driving EVs. |
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At San Francisco EV Rally held at the San Francisco Presidio, see the Golden Gate Bridge in background. It was a challenge to find enough charging to get up to SF from Sunnyvale. This was before there were public EV charging stations. |
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I was rode my zappy at the electric scooter derby in Livermore, CA. This is the same escooter I rode at the workshop#2 held at the SCAQMD office in Rosemead, CA. The employees laughed and chided me as this big guy rode it showing incoming EVs where to park at the site's EV chargers. These employees quieted down, stopped laughing, and left when I asked why their parking lot was full of polluting SUVs and not cleaner vehicles. SCAQMD employees were not as pollution sensitive as the Sacramento AQMD site. |
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Close-up image used on EV web sites all over the Internet, and included in my Press Credentials as Editor of the Electric Vehicle List News. All my non-profit activities was gaining me visibility, both outside and inside HP. |
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At a running event in the
Almaden/San Jose, CA area, EVs were asked to come and be the pace vehicles so runners would
not have to breath fuel-car exhaust fumes. In the 1990's more and more EV drivers were asked to give
their time to come to events, display and talk about their EVs. |
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Stored the new Eco-Electric Chevy S-10 truck Electric Vehicle conversion at the Sunnyvale Hewlett-Packard for a nearby EV show. Their EV came straight from their Arizona conversion shop for an EV show in San Jose, CA. |
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At a East Bay EAA Rally, many EVs charged off 440VAC 400 amp 3-phase BART power fed through step down transformers mounted on a towable trailer. Most EVs charged off the 110 or 220 VAC provided from the trailer's transformers. We had 20 EVs charging off BART power (with permission, of course). |
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This Chinese Delegation on Mega Trends (Megatrends) at the S. San Francisco Crown Plaza Hotel is one of many EV speaking engagements I have done. I have also spoken at companies on how to do a cost effective EV charging spot installtion at work sites. |
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Before the public had affordable Internet access, I would print off the color web pages of EVs and show them to the public in the binder shown. Here I am speaking to a group of S. SF youngsters about EVs at the SF Peninsula EAA Chapter EV Show held at the Tanforan Shopping Center in 1997. |
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