The Hawaii ITE had its annual luncheon meeting on October 27, 2010, at the City’s Frank F. Fasi Municipal Building. Based upon a tally of the votes received for the 2010 elections, the following were elected as incoming officers:
Honglong Li, President
Mike Packard, Vice President
Juanita Wolfgramm, Secretary
Sara Toyama, Treasurer
The meeting began with introductions including, upon the request of the guest speaker, when and why we each decided to become an engineer. The insight on how our fellow ITE members started their path into transportation engineering was a fun and interesting change to our typical introductions.
Guest speaker David Rolf, from Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association (HADA), gave a presentation on the Electrification of the Car. In 1959 HADA was formed composed of Hawaii’s franchised new car dealers and associate members. Looking towards the future of alternative fuels, Mr. Rolf says a combined effort of the government, customers, and business is needed in order to be successful. Working together toward the common goal of creating an environment for the sustained growth of the retail auto industry, distributors, auto manufactures, public regulatory officials, the state administration, and legislators introduced the 2010 Hawaii motor vehicle franchise law. The future is what gives meaning to today, in 2010 and beyond we are looking at gas/electric Hybrids, Electric Vehicles, Diesel-powered, Gasoline-powered, Flex-fuel/ethanol-powered, and Hydrogen-powered vehicles.
