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The Future of Cars

Time: 3:00 pm | Location: Main Stage

So many questions exist around the subject of cars. America has been a car nation since Ford invented the assembly line and we paved all of our super highways. Most Americans can not even imagine life without their car.

We have to grapple with the big issue of fuel - so where do we go? D2E is bringing together a diverse panel of experts to shed some light on this issue.

Brad Beauchamp, Fuel Cell Activities, GM
Working on gas friendly and gas free solutions to reduce US petroleum dependence.

John B. Rogers, Jr., President, CEO and Co-Founder at Local Motors
Local Motor's mission is to lead the next generation of automotive manufacturing, design, and technology in order to revolutionize the industry with game-changing efficient vehicles.

Donald Sadoway, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT
Down in his basement laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Donald Sadoway and his students are hunting for the perfect battery. Not for cell phones or laptop computers, but to power a future generation of automobiles or perhaps the electric grid.

Kenneth E. Kruckemeyer, AIA, ASCE, Transportation Strategist

Ken Kruckemeyer has been walking, cycling, riding transit and driving in Boston since he arrived here as a student in 1963. After his early and successful efforts as an anti-highway activist he went on to manage the design of the transit, railroad, streets and parkland of the Southwest Corridor that took the highway’s place. He subsequently became a commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, in charge of highway and bridge design. More recently he has taught engineering and planning students at MIT to design transportation systems that will nurture the urban environment. 

Ken currently consults as a Transportation Strategist; and is a co-Director of the International Honors Program "Cities in the 21st Century." He is an Architect with degrees from Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University. As a vigilant advocate for the public sphere, he is a founding member of WalkBoston and the LivableStreets Alliance.

Sustainable living meets our present needs without compromising the needs of future generations.