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JUNE 17, 2011

The team from Virginia Tech University received top honors as overall winners of EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge after designing and building an extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) using E85 (ethanol).

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Virginia Tech launched the second annual Spring Additive Vehicle Design Challenge, a competition for students to design a remote-controlled 3-D printed vehicle that can drive on ground and fly in the air. This is a competition about design, creativity, and problem solving. —Christopher Williams, the W.S.

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MAY 28, 2023

West Virginia University took second place and University of Alabama finished third in the judged competition , which was held from 21–26 May 2023 in Orlando, Florida. The Team’s complex embedded system designs were impressive. They also notched top-3 finishes for their Project Management subteam and their DEI subteam.

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APRIL 23, 2022

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA). West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV) . The challenge will span four years and after each year, teams will be evaluated on their vehicle design and process. University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX). University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada).

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JULY 28, 2023

In June, CPKC and CSX Corporation announced their intent to enter into a joint venture for the building and deployment of hydrogen locomotive conversion kits for diesel electric locomotives. The conversion work will be done at CSX’s Huntington, West Virginia locomotive shop.

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OCTOBER 23, 2021

the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Virginia Tech as partners to bring the SUPER inverter to fruition. In the second year, the team will make all critical components that make up the inverter, including the power module and capacitor, and finalize the inverter’s design. Earlier post.). PolyCharge America, Inc., Wolfspeed, Inc.

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MARCH 4, 2023

Scout Motors, the recently formed independent company backed by Volkswagen Group ( earlier post , is establishing its first manufacturing plant near Columbia, South Carolina, where it will build electric next-generation trucks and rugged SUVs harkening back to the iconic Scout vehicles produced from 1960 to 1980. The state is No.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The US Departments of Transportation and Energy announced nearly $5 billion that will be made available under the new National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program to build out a national electric vehicle charging network. West Virginia. These corridors will be the backbone of the new national EV charging network.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

EcoCAR is a collegiate automotive competition aimed at developing a highly skilled, domestic workforce by providing hands-on experience designing and building next-generation mobility solutions to meet our nation’s future energy and mobility challenges. Virginia Tech. West Virginia University. The Ohio State University.

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MARCH 26, 2009

The fuel will be used by the airport’s operations and the 130 th Air Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard. The facility will be designed using open architecture, allowing the capability to add innovations and advancements in hydrogen technology as they become available. DOE funding for the Yeager Airport project is $2.6

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Building on a rich history of safety and technology expertise, Volvo Autonomous Solutions is paving the way towards offering Volvo autonomous trucks to customers, as well as delivering Transport as a Service (TaaS) solutions for autonomous commercial trucks, tailored to specific customer needs.

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MARCH 4, 2016

NASA has awarded a contract for the preliminary design of a quiet, “low boom” supersonic flight demonstration aircraft—the first in a new series of ‘X-planes’ in NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in the agency’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget. The Lockheed Martin team includes subcontractors GE Aviation and Tri Models Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Increasingly, the US is splitting into two camps when it comes to EV adoption: those states who’ve been aggressive about offering incentives and building infrastructure to support EVs and those that have not. What’s underneath that nationwide score, however, is significant variation on a state-by-state basis.

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MARCH 23, 2022

To support its TaaS model, WattEV is building a public network of heavy-duty battery-electric truck charging depots to service major transportation corridors, connecting shipping ports with freight distribution centers and warehouse locations.

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MAY 24, 2019

Rounding out the top three are Virginia Tech in second place and the University of Alabama in third place. Teams have four years (2018-2022) to transform their vehicles from design concept into reality, building an energy efficient, connected and semi-automated vehicle for the car sharing market.

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JANUARY 26, 2019

Boeing has successfully completed the first test flight of its autonomous passenger air vehicle (PAV) prototype in Manassas, Virginia. In one year, we have progressed from a conceptual design to a flying prototype. This transition phase is typically the most significant engineering challenge for any high-speed VTOL aircraft.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Volvo Trucks North America is utilizing 3D printing technology to produce tools and fixtures used in the manufacturing process at its New River Valley (NRV) plant in Dublin, Virginia, where all trucks for the North American market are built.

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JULY 28, 2023

In the past several years, BWXT has been maturing its nuclear thermal propulsion fuel and design, and we are excited to further expand into space with our ability to deliver nuclear products and capabilities to the US Government. We look forward to building the reactor and manufacturing the fuel at our Lynchburg, Virginia, facilities.

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MARCH 28, 2024

In order of priority, the categories are fastest to complete the tunnel, innovative design, build, and/or test, and most accurate tunnel. For the 2024 Not-a-Boring Competition’s main event, teams will compete in three categories. The 2024 Not-a-Boring Competition has begun!

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2024

Diversity of thought in industrial design is crucial: If no one thinks to design a technology for multiple body types, people can get hurt. Even now, some modern studies used in the design of fall-detection technology rely on methods like hiring stunt actors who pretend to fall.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Funded by a $2-million grant from the US Department of Energy, a team of scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) led by Eric Masanet is building a sophisticated cost model for fuel cells that will will take into account the total cost of ownership. Success with forklifts could lead to bigger transportation markets.

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APRIL 25, 2014

EcoCAR 3 challenges university students across North America to design, build and optimize eco-friendly powertrains over the course of the next four years. Virginia Tech. West Virginia University. Ohio State University. Pennsylvania State University. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. University of Alabama.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, along with experts from industry and academia, have developed predictive engineering tools for designing new, economical, and lightweight automotive composites. This approach should speed the development of more economical carbon fiber materials.

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OCTOBER 12, 2019

The Neorizon microfactory is intended to build products at unprecedented speeds through the combination of co-creation and cutting-edge technology. We’ve been working with LM Industries’ team at Local Motors since early 2016 when we realized the unique value proposition surrounding direct digital manufacturing and open-source design.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

He worked in managerial positions in New York, Ohio, and Virginia, then became AEP's chief executive in 1976 and served in that role until he retired in 1991. White served on the board of visitors at Virginia Tech and was vice rector and rector there. He also served as a director of the Virginia Tech Foundation.

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MAY 1, 2024

A modern upgrade was Clair Omar Musser’s desktop electric orrery , which he designed for the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962. One entry in May 1920 in Bauersfeld’s meticulous lab notebook showed the earliest depiction of the two-axis design that allowed for the display of the daily as well as the annual motions of the stars.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The University will build and test the technology in their laboratory. West Virginia University (WVU) (bench-scale project) achieved 5% REE concentration at greater than 90% REE recovery using acid mine drainage solids from the Northern Appalachian and Central Appalachian Basins.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

At the time, the company shared photos of early work on prototypes of smaller Neutron structural elements, as well as progress building the giant molds that will be used to ‘lay up’ the rocket’s carbon fiber composite tanks and airframe. Neutron measures 42.8 meters (140.4 ft) tall and up to seven meters (23 ft) wide.

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APRIL 8, 2020

BETHE teams will build on recent progress in fusion research and the growing fusion community to lower costs and further foster viable commercial opportunities for the next generation of fusion technology. Advanced Inertial Fusion Energy Target Designs and Driver Development - $1,750,000. Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

will construct new compressed natural gas (CNG) stations for Arlington Transit (ART) in Arlington County, Virginia; Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) in Long Island, NY; and North Kansas City (MO) School District, which is set to become the largest school district in the US to transition its school bus fleet to CNG. Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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DECEMBER 28, 2010

(MNES), and Virginia Electric and Power Company have reached an agreement to continue pre-construction, engineering, and planning work in preparation for a third unit at Dominion’s North Anna Nuclear Power Plant in central Virginia. In March 2007, Luminant selected the US-APWR design for its Comanche Peak Units 3 and 4.

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APRIL 15, 2011

builds upon a 23-year history of DOE Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions (AVTC). EcoCAR teams will utilize a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu donated by General Motors as the integration platform for their advanced vehicle design. Using the VDP enables students to design, build and refine their advanced technology vehicles.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Today, the startup employs 70 people worldwide and operates in 36 countries, and Rattner says he’s excited to get out of bed every morning because he’s building a product that simply wouldn’t exist otherwise. Together they came up with an idea for a tool that would allow people to build websites without writing code.

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MAY 28, 2010

after designing and building an biodiesel extended-range electric vehicle (EREV). Virginia Tech earned second place with an ethanol EREV design and Penn State came in third place building a biodiesel EREV. The Mississippi State University EcoCAR team chose to design an EREV hybrid with a 21.3

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

As coal plants close, they leave behind empty building shells and scores of lost jobs. Plant operators might save on costs, with transmission lines, cooling towers, office buildings, and roads already in place. Many still-speculative small modular reactor designs might deliver just a few hundred megawatts. (In In Kemmerer, Wyo.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

GRID Alternatives: The GRID plan will support the CARB ‘One-Stop-Shop’ Pilot, which is designed to pair ZEV education and awareness activities in disadvantaged communities with streamlined access to available ZEV funding.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Over the last three years, CSRC has launched 34 research projects with 17 partner institutions, including The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; George Washington University; MIT Age Lab; Ohio State University; Stanford University; Transportation Active Safety Institute; UC San Diego; University of Iowa; University of Michigan Transportation Research (..)

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