Getting Up Off The Couch 101″, SRJC Alternative Fuel Vehicle Program

(AUTO 190–192 & DET 190–192)

If you’re not hap­py with our cur­rent fuel options you can either sit on your couch and com­plain about it, or get up and do some­thing about it.

San­ta Rosa Jr. Col­lege offers four excit­ing alter­na­tive fuels cours­es that are not only inno­v­a­tive and edu­ca­tion­al, but one of a kind. What makes our pro­gram one of a kind is the com­bin­ing of a tra­di­tion­al class lec­ture that one would find in the sci­ence depart­ment, with a hands-on shop course that one would find in our Trade-Tech department.

We teach “how to” then we “do”.

This year we have added an excit­ing new option to our list of build­ing projects. Since the incep­tion of the pro­gram elec­tri­cal out­put fuels have always been a large part of the “alter­na­tive” fuel mix. This year, just in time to fuel up from Trade-Tech’s new solar array, we have start­ed a build on our very first EV. We are cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing an EV build pro­to­col/recipe-list, with the hopes of more quick­ly dupli­cat­ing our EV work and expand­ing on the class’ efforts. Come by and charge your EV from one of our four new L6-30 240 volt 30 amp sin­gle phase 2 pole AC pow­er outlets.