Pierson remains heavily involved in the initiative
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.