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http://www.pressconnects.com/story/money/2014/10/10/pierson-develops-electric-vehicle/17027441/ Area inventor shows off new electric vehicle by Jon Harris October 10, 2014 [image http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/Binghamton/2014/10/10/20141009piersononvehicle01.jpg (Photo: JON HARRIS / Staff Photo ) ] Town of Chenango resident Mark Pierson, a former IBM employee and prominent local inventor, has developed a one-seat commuter electric vehicle. Story Highlights Pierson regularly drives the EV3 prototype from his Town of Chenango home to work 17 miles away. Pierson, an area native, worked at IBM for 24 years before getting laid off in 2003. Pierson works at Custom Systems Integration but is also owner of MVP Innovative Solutions. TOWN OF CHENANGO – Mark Pierson is a mechanical engineer who hates gasoline motors. “I have no luck with gasoline engines,” Pierson griped in a recent interview. “I don’t like them. They stink. They’re inefficient.” So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that he’s developed a prototype of a one-seat commuter vehicle that is entirely electrically powered. The three-wheeled vehicle, dubbed the EV3, has a top speed of 55 miles per hour, a range of 25 miles and makes virtually no noise as it travels down the road. The EV3 prototype is fully licensed, inspected and registered, allowing Pierson to drive the vehicle from his Town of Chenango home to work at Glendale Technology Park in West Corners, a roughly 17-mile journey. Pierson, 63, is a seasoned engineer and inventor. He has 105 issued U.S. patents and hundreds of foreign patents. Pierson, an area native, takes tremendous pride in the region’s rich history of innovation and hopes to rekindle that reputation through his own work and by inspiring others to get creative. Pierson, a graduate of Binghamton North High School, Broome Technical Community College and the State University of New York at Binghamton, worked at IBM for 24 years before getting laid off in 2003. In 2002, Pierson, while still at IBM, was selected as a New York State Invention Convention coordinator. Today, Pierson remains heavily involved in the initiative and helped organize the 29th annual Invention Convention at Binghamton University Union this past June, which attracted roughly 190 Southern Tier students in kindergarten though eighth grade. Some of the ideas at this year’s event were an electric bird feeder, an automatic kitty litter eliminator and Legos modeling a scientific proposal to cure cancer. Pierson’s efforts to drum up innovation in the region aren’t anything new, according to Joe Zdimal, a Conklin resident who met Pierson more than 20 years ago at IBM. Zdimal was a development technician at IBM until he was laid off in 2002. He then took a similar job at Endicott Interconnect, but was let go in 2012. “He’s always been gung-ho to try to inspire young people to use their creativity,” said Zdimal, 65, and now retired. Other efforts to revive the region’s entrepreneurial spirit have not been as successful. Pierson was also involved in the Valley of Innovation Initiative, a group of Southern Tier entrepreneurs and government leaders dedicated to using inventors to stimulate the area’s economy, but the nonprofit took a nosedive without funding and fell apart. “It was actually kind of sad because what that was is what this area needs,” Pierson said. “We have a lot of innovative people.” Count Pierson among them. Pierson now works in mechanical engineering at Custom Systems Integration in Glendale Technology Park. But he’s also owner and president of MVP Innovative Solutions, a business born out of his Hospital Hill Road home about a year ago. Pierson’s office is in his home’s basement. A plethora of tools hang on the wall by his workbench. A desk, supporting a laptop, printer and papers, resides just behind that. Other machines are also set up in the basement, all within sight of the washer and dryer. MVP works with IBM, Universal Instruments and Elliott Manufacturing, among others. Pierson said it took him about a year to develop the EV3, which has a souped-up golf cart controller. While the prototype is not for sale, Pierson said the EV3 would cost about $4,500 brand new. And his vehicle has his peers impressed. The EV3 often grabs the attention of fellow engineers when Pierson travels on Washington Avenue in Endicott. Vestal resident How Lin, 66, worked with Pierson at IBM and has known him for more than 30 years. Lin is one of the founding members of ExSys Technology Inc., which started just this year and is located at the Huron Campus, and holds 46 U.S. patents. Lin said Pierson did a “great job” with his modifications to existing technology in order to develop the EV3. “I was impressed,” Lin said. “The thing really goes.” Moving forward, Pierson is considering new vehicle body styles and is looking to work with experts in the electric-drive field. He is also planning to contact Volkswagen to inquire about purchasing the body of a one-seat, four-wheeled vehicle. Pierson would then plan to perform the electric conversion himself. In other words, Pierson, despite his age, has no plans to slow down. “I don’t have any plans to retire,” Pierson said. “I’m not the kind of person to sit in a rocking chair in retirement. 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