{"id":23047,"date":"2014-03-05T07:45:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=23047"},"modified":"2020-06-05T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T22:51:27","slug":"kauai-cc-preparing-auto-mechanics-for-green-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/05\/kauai-cc-preparing-auto-mechanics-for-green-future\/","title":{"rendered":"<span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> preparing auto mechanics for green future"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qjnkafryEfU\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kauai.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College<\/a> is preparing its automotive students for the future. The college&#8217;s nationally certified <a href=\"http:\/\/info.kauai.hawaii.edu\/program_desc\/trade\/amt.htm\">automotive technology department<\/a> is now offering a program in hybrid and electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need to prepare more and more of our technicians to get ready for this new trend of green technology,&rdquo; said <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> automotive professor <strong>Gordon Talbo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Student like <strong>Seth Launder<\/strong>, who is looking for a career path after finishing his high school education. &ldquo;I always wanted to work on cars so since I feel this is where they are going with automotive technology, I do believe, I will probably be doing some sort of work like this in the future,&rdquo; said Launder.<\/p>\n<p>This program also benefits students who are already in the workforce but are looking for additional training, like diesel mechanic <strong>Dalton Thronas<\/strong>. He works for a company that is adding hybrid vehicles to its fleet. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No one on the island is certified to do hybrid so I wanted to try and get some of the technology under my belt so I could help out,&rdquo; said Thronas. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22846\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/kauai-cc-hybrid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/kauai-cc-hybrid.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/kauai-cc-hybrid-260x171.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> automotive professor Gordon Talbo instructs his class on hybrid and electric vehicle technology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hybrid and electric vehicles are a different animal compared to conventional gas powered vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Totally different,&rdquo; said Talbo. &ldquo;We are working with a very high voltage, anywhere from 140 volts up to 600 volts on the vehicles.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Three new courses in hybrid and electric vehicles have been added, and combined with the already existing automotive classes form the new Automotive Green Technology program. <\/p>\n<p>The first hybrid and electric vehicles course starts with the basics. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are learning about how hybrid vehicles work,&rdquo; said Launer. &ldquo;We are also learning about the safety procedures for working on them.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In case of crashes or regular maintenance like oil changes and stuff like that,&rdquo; added Thronas. &ldquo;That\u2019s where this class comes in and it teaches you those procedures.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The second and third courses focus on maintaining the vehicles through preventive maintenance and repair and advanced diagnostics. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are a lot of advanced technologies with advanced electronics that students need to learn about also with the technicians,&rdquo; said Talbo. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The program is a lot of fun to learn actually how different technology and how different makes and models of vehicles and how they actually make their motors in different ways,&rdquo; said Launder. <\/p>\n<p>The students say the best thing about the Automotive Green Technology program is that it is available at <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> Community College. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was expecting it to be more so offered in universities but I was pleasantly surprised,&rdquo; said Launder. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is here available for you, there is no comparison to how thankful I am that this program is here,&rdquo; agreed Thronas. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Initially, we train for the local community first but yet you can take this knowledge wherever you travel in the world,&rdquo; said Talbo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s nationally certified automotive technology department is now offering a program in hybrid and electric vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[70,64,56],"class_list":["post-23047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-automotive-technology","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23047"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120186,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23047\/revisions\/120186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}