Transportation: Alternative Fuel Vehicles Sample Occupations
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- Automotive Engineer
- Design eco-friendly cars, trucks, motorcycles, and scooters with increasing fuel efficiency & zero-emissions, investigating use of alternative fuels & technologies.
- Auto Retrofitter
- Make adjustments to specific automotive systems to improve their performance, especially to decrease emissions & increase fuel efficiency.
- Metal Fabricator
- Create the machines that form metal into plight or heavy real cars, bike racks, wind turbines, etc. Use specialized drills, grinders, molds, presses, and rollers, as well as computer software.
- Environmental Chemist
- In-depth knowledge & respect for the relationship between chemistry & the environment. Design & conduct chemical experiments & analyses in basic or applied research or product development. Expanding focus on improving technology for alternative energy sou
- Automotive Service Technician
- Must continually adapt to changing technology & repair techniques as vehicle components & systems become increasingly sophisticated and cleaner. Formal automotive technician training is the best preparation for these
- Mechanical Engineer with focus on green technologies
- design & develop machines that produce and/or use energy, such as car engines and wind turbines. Determine needs of the user, physical problems of building equipment, cost & its effect on the environment. Field is very broad, & the need for emerging gr
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