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TFF Seminar Presented by Toyota National Manager

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May 7, 2008

Raleigh, N.C. – On April 10, The Transportation Founders Fund (TFF) hosted their Annual Event on the NC State University Centennial Campus. This year’s guest speaker was Mr. Robert R. Wimmer, Energy and Environmental Research Group National Manager of Toyota Motor North America.

In addition to these responsibilities, Mr. Wimmer also coordinates TMA’s hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell vehicle activities with other Toyota divisions and supports alternative fuel and climate change activities within TMA. Mr. Wimmer’s presentation focused on Toyota’s transportation vision in an era in which concerns about depleting fuel fossil resources, globalized competition for such resources, and climate change impacts are on the rise.

The Transportation Founders Fund (TFF) is a unique opportunity for transportation professionals to interact personally with top-level transportation executives and at the same time to support the transportation program at North Carolina State University (NCSU). The TFF is an outreach activity of the NCSU Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) and the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering.