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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

The Truth About Cars

Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly.

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Ohio workshop seeks ideas for National Network for Manufacturing Innovation

Green Car Congress

The workshop will be held 9 July at the Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. and local Cleveland organizations that include NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cuyahoga Community College and Case Western Reserve University. They also will support education and training of an advanced manufacturing work force.

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Swaying toward EV mobility

Electric Auto Association

Attacking the problem The idea for Sway Mobility came in 2017, when Peters was working in sustainability with different neighborhoods in Cleveland. “I Once in Cleveland, he connected with Tim Benford, President of Drive Electric Dayton , who inspired him to join the Northeast Ohio chapter. To get a good job, you need a car.

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NASA moves Environmentally Responsible Aviation project into next phase of research with 8 large-scale technology demonstrations

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NASA has selected eight large-scale integrated technology demonstrations to advance aircraft concepts and technologies for reducing the impact of aviation on the environment over the next 30 years. and NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.;

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NASA testing new boundary layer ingesting (BLI) propulsor; 4-8% fuel burn savings over current advanced engines

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MIT and NASA engineers earlier proposed the D8 Series as one future aircraft design concept that uses boundary layer ingestion. NASA is testing the propulsor, designed by United Technologies Research Center with research conducted by Virginia Polytechnic and State University, in its 8' x 6' Wind Tunnel at NASA Glenn in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Aleris to invest $350M to upgrade Kentucky aluminum rolling mill for anticipated growth in automotive demand

Green Car Congress

Aleris pursues a uni-alloy concept based on the alloy family EN6016 (AlMgSi-type alloy), taking into account significant benefits in terms of cost and environmental sustainability. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Aleris operates more than 40 production facilities in North America, Europe and Asia.

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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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Under the new contracts, the teams will now develop concepts and models that can be tested in computer simulations, laboratories and wind tunnels. The program’s Subsonic Fixed Wing Project oversees the work at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Langley Research Center in Virginia. million, three years.

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