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Are you a “It Will Never Work” Kind?

10 January 2019 By Alan Straton Leave a Comment

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It was not so long ago that walking along the streets was an exercise in olfactory sensitivity. Mankind's only source of transport was via horse and horse emissions were kinda crap. The doomsayers, the "it will never work" camp were up in arms when Henry Ford got going with his "You can have it in any colour so long as it's black" campaign to sell cars to every man and his dog. Somehow - the farmers, the saddle makers, the cart creators, the crap sweepers, the feed merchants, the leather goods makers and all the other merry people that made a living off of equine transport survived. A little bit of skills training and the former crappy jobs turned into the "American Dream". “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad.” reportedly said by the President of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company. Chart the progress through the years - with every introduction of new technology one always got the early adopters, the enthusiasts, the looneys the passionate advocates, the doomsayers, the naysayers. As each technology matured the most compelling reason for mass adoption reared it's head - cheaper, more pervasive and better. Woe is the 'sage' who predicted that the European market for computers was only for 3 machines. Professor Douglas Hartree, in 1951, said that, in his opinion, all the calculations that would ever be needed in this England could be done on the three digital computers which were then being built - one in Cambridge, one in Teddington, and one in Manchester. No one else, he said, would ever need machines of their own, or would be able to afford to buy them. Woe is the sage who predicted; "Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires..." Half right I suppose as we now transport voice through air as well. Poor Lord Kelvin is on record saying; "Radio has no future." Quick, someone tell Algoa FM! Woe to the people that continue to believe that Port Elizabeth IS the Windiest City in South Africa. Charlie Chaplin once said; "The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." Bill Gates, at the World Economic Forum in 2004 put his foot firmly in it when he said; "Two years from now, spam will be solved." Which just goes … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Business Tagged With: electric vehicle, horse, mynmb

Launch of SA’s Electric Vehicle Technology Centre at NMMU

13 March 2013 By Alan Straton Leave a Comment

Key players in the future of motoring gathered at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University today for the launch of South Africa's Electric Vehicle Technology Centre. Industry representatives from BMW, Eskom, Sasol, Nissan, PowerTech and Siemens, experts from the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) that is funding the multi-million centre and chairperson of its board Dr Mamphela Ramphele attended the opening from 10:00 am at the university's new state-of-the-art Engineering building on North Campus. Dr Ramphele, who recently started a new political platform, Agang, gave the keynote address. The university's Vice-Chancellor Prof Derrick Swartz took one of the new electric vehicles already on campus for a spin prior to the opening where he then officially welcomed about 250 guests from around South Africa. The university's technology station, eNtsa, has been singled out to facilitate the country's e-mobility brief of establishing just what is needed to take South African motoring into the future. NMMU's award-winning eNtsa will facilitate the establishment of a centre which will develop infrastructure, research, technology and competencies needed for the future new generation vehicles. "Experts anticipate that 10% of the world's vehicles will be powered by alternative energy sources by 2020, so it imperative that South Africa is not left behind but starts working towards this new future," says eNtsa's  Dirk Odendaal, who will be coordinating the establishment of the new hub. "We're thrilled that NMMU will be playing such an integral role that the future of electric cars." NMMU was selected by TIA, established by the government to enhance socio-economic benefits in the field of technology and innovation, because of its "outstanding track record". Last year eNtsa, whose tag line is innovation through engineering, won a number of accolades for its internationally-patented Weld Core® technology, which is already saving industry millions of rands. "eNtsa, with over 20 engineers spanning across mechanical , electro-mechnical, and electrical, is a world-class TIA technology station out of the 16, and given the strategic geographic location of NMMU (within the heart of the automotive sector) and the relationship that eNtsa already has developed with the automotive sector, it seemed appropriate to locate the hub of this programme at NMMU," … [Read more...]

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