The mission of the Advanced Transportation Energy Center (ATEC) is to develop fundamental and enabling technologies that will facilitate the electric power industry to actively manage and control large amount of plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) and plug-in electric vehicle (PEV).

This is your chance to visit a fellow North Raleigh Rotarian at their place of employment and learn more about their respective industries and experiences. 

Art Pope

J. Arthur Pope is president of Variety Wholesalers Inc., which operates a chain of over 500 retail stores in fourteen southern states. He is also president of the John William Pope Foundation, a private grant-making foundation. He served four terms in the North Carolina House of Representatives and was special counsel to Governor James Martin. He was a member of the state’s Economic Futures Study Commission and State Goals and Policies Board. He was the founding chairman of the John Locke Foundation and has served on the boards of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the Jesse Helms Center at Wingate College, and the Boy Scouts of America–Occoneechee Council.