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Among those at the Burgdorf-Lehrte trade school likely to profit most from this roadworthy truck are students training to be commercial vehicle mechatronics specialists as well as others preparing to be professional drivers. The school’s curriculum closely dovetails classroom instruction with operative work processes. The vehicle now makes it possible to visualize such processes, incorporating them into the course program as learning situations. Teachers can, for instance, employ the vehicle to directly demonstrate to pupils how a brake system or other parts work. In November 2007 another successful partnership got going between ContiTech and a trade school. Working on their own initiative, trainees at the ContiTech plant in Karben developed an electric car from lightweight materials (item profiles). Afterwards they handed the “green” electric car over to the trade and technical school in Butzbach as an example of the use of alternative energies. The vehicle serves the school not only as exhibition piece. It will also have a practical value. Pupils can use it as a trial model for installation and removal exercises, for instance, as well as for functional analysis of individual components. In this way, the pupils can put their theoretical knowledge to the test on the ContiTech electric car. The whole thing is even more interesting technically in that the car also represents a living example, so to speak, of the use of alternative energies.
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