The founder of Philadelphia Scientific’s futuristic EV project is to be presented to the US Department of Transport in December.
Will Jones is the brainchild of the Tracked Electric Vehicle (TEV) Project, which would consist of an electrically powered track where electric and hybrid cars can travel indefinitely under computer control, without the need for charging and without using their batteries.
The TEV Project has been invited by the United States Department of Transportation to present at Federal Highways Administration’s (FHWA) Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) Programme workshop in early December. It will be presented to an audience of United States Department of Transport staff, academics, private and public sector representatives and government representatives at the FHWA Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Centre in McLean, Virginia.
The two-day workshop forms the second phase of a request for information to the EAR Program, which is surveying individuals or organisations conducting relevant research and development into Novel Surface Transportation Systems.
Caroline Jones Carrick, who co-founded the TEV Project with father Will, said: “This is an exciting opportunity for the TEV Project to share our revolutionary new transportation infrastructure, designed for the 21st century. We are proposing the roads of the future: safer, greener and more efficient.”
