REVS at Stanford University

The Revs Institute for Automotive Research, Inc. is dedicated to deepening our understanding and appreciation of automotive history. It is attended to by staff of full time restoration technicians. It supports engineering, science, humanities, social sciences and general historiography fields.
It benefits from use of the Automotive Innovation Facility , which house the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (also known as VAIL). Diego Rodriguez is a founding professor at the Hasso Plattner Institue of design at Stanford University. Diego works across IDEO’s studios in San Francisco and Palo Alto. He focuses on strategic innovation opportunities, including venture design, software and product development, and marketing. He is committed to helping future innovators.
Minddrive will be visiting Stanford University, and I personally would love to visit this university because it of the history of cars. I love cars not only because of how they look, but also because how they work and how they run. They are amazing vehicles and its interesting that some students get to work on them while studying at Stanford. I would love to attend Stanford for REVS institute.

Written by Carlos Bahena

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Final Charge (Team 1 Karmann Ghia) Before and After

Hey, my name is  Charge….Final Charge. I’m here to tell you guys about my life before and after I tried MINDDRIVE. There are things I couldn’t change about myself, like the fact that I’m a Karmann Ghia. But, there are things with MINDDRIVE that could be changed.

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Electricida Update for March 15, 2014

Everyone on the team is particularly busy today with housekeeping!

They are preparing for an upcoming dinner event that will take place in the garage (can you imagine!) and they are making their little shop nice and clean from top to bottom. That also includes the car; from cleaning up oil spills to wiping the grease off the transmission.


When it comes to the car, they are still making small improvements:

• Taking excess metal off the hood
• Taking out the old gages and CD player (along with wires)

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Expanding My Horizons in the West

On MINDDRIVE’s 2014 trip to California, the first day will be pretty much a hit-the-ground-running kind of day. Hopefully drops of coffee will come my way because we are heading to Humboldt State University and Schatz Energy Research Center (SERC) once we are off the plane. I hope we won’t get jet lag from the 2 hour time difference.
SERC is on the Humboldt State University campus which is located in the picturesque town of Arcata, California, approximately a 5 hour drive north from San Francisco. It sits on a hill that overlooks Humboldt Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The University has had its doors open for over 101 years, starting off as a teacher’s college in 1913. Now it offers over 91 Bachelor’s programs, 21 Master’s and 6 different types of teaching credentials.

SERC and MINDDRIVE have plenty in common. Both institutions teach students and the general public about clean and renewable energy. SERC’s facility specializes in developing alternatives to get us off of carbon-based energy. Although the facility has many objectives such as giving energy options to developing countries and collecting data from their projects to further their findings, they have also made the country’s first hydrogen fuel-cell car.
Getting a tour of both facilities will be a great experience for me. I may not be interested in engineering and things of that realm but I am always ready to fall in love with places that are willing to help the Earth become a greener place to live.



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Taejah’s Dreaming Big!

Written by Taejah Davis

On our upcoming trip to California this summer one of the places we will be visiting is the Redwood forest. It is filled with some of the tallest trees in the United States. In the early 19^th century after the Gold Rush there was a huge need of lumber and the giant trees in the redwood forest had a great selection.  By the end of the century a lot Redwood had disappeared as new technology was evolving. Since trees were decreasing day by day in order to protect the trees citizens formed the Save-the-Redwoods League, where they purchased tracts of land with the help from the state. The tracts of land would form four state parks in the 1920s and this began the establishment of the Redwood National Park. It was founded in 1968 and the four parks were joined together in 1994.
On this trip I’m very excited to see all the huge trees. I’ve seen them in pictures, but I think I’m ready to see it up close and personal. I love to see historical scenery. Most importantly I’m just happy to be getting out of Missouri! I have never been to California and it’s only my biggest dream. I’m also excited to drive through this huge tree.

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