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JANUARY 31, 2011

In the first quarter of 2011, approximately 550 demonstration Volts will be delivered to Chevy dealers. Chevy expects to deliver Volts in all 50 states by the end of 2011. According to GM research, 85% of consumers searching for information about the Volt on Chevrolet.com looked at other Chevrolet vehicles.

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AUGUST 26, 2011

Hyper-miler Wayne Gerdes and his colleague Chris Bernius, driving a factory-standard 2011 Kia Optima Hybrid ( earlier post ), aim to set a new record for lowest fuel consumption in a gasoline hybrid car while driving an 8,000-mile route through all 48 adjoining states of the US.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In a 4-1 vote, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) found NRC staff’s review adequate to make necessary regulatory safety and environmental findings on Southern Nuclear Operating Company’s (SNC) application for two Combined Licenses (COL) at the Vogtle site in Georgia. Earlier post.). The NRC completed and issued the FSER on 9 Aug.

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While states in the Midwest corn-growing region continue to add significant numbers of new E85 retail locations, California, New York, Colorado, Georgia, and Texas have also experienced rapid growth of E85 availability, adding more than 49 retail locations each between 2007 and 2013.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Gerdes and Bernius successfully piloted a factory-standard 2011 Kia Optima Hybrid sedan through a 7,899 mile (12,712 km) route across America and achieved an average fuel consumption of 64.55 Earlier post.). mpg US (3.64 l/100 km), beating the car’s official EPA highway fuel consumption figure by 61.37%.

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The fleet consists of liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas tractors serving customers in California, New York, Michigan, Texas, Arizona, Utah, Maryland, Georgia and Louisiana, as well as in Canada. Since deploying its natural gas vehicle program in 2011, Ryder has replaced approximately 4.6

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The Nissan LEAF will roll out to the state of Georgia in 2011. Nissan, along with its alliance partner Renault, has formed partnerships with more than 80 governments, cities and other organizations to advance the deployment of electric vehicles.

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Since its entry into the US market, sonnen has established a research and development facility in Georgia and product manufacturing in California. sonnen was founded in Germany and started delivering the first generation of its smart storage system sonnenBatterie in 2011.

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The fleet consists of liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas tractors serving more than 40 customer operations in California, New York, Texas, Arizona, Michigan, Utah, Georgia, and Louisiana. Since deploying its natural gas vehicle program in 2011, Ryder has replaced approximately 3.1

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Michigan-based beverage container recycling company UBCR has operated its Ryder NGV fleet for more than 7 million miles since 2011. Sixteen compressed natural gas vehicles, designed with the latest modifications and technological advances, will replace UBCR’s entire truck fleet.

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The accomplishment is part of the technology transfer process moving from bench top at PNNL to piloting at Freedom Pines, Georgia. In 2011, PNNL, Lanzatech and Imperium jointly responded to a DOE call for proposals for a new aviation biofuel research project to convert biomass-derived alcohols to drop-in renewable jet fuel.

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Christensen is leaving his post as executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology to come to UC San Diego. In 2011, Christensen was awarded the Joseph F. Ten years ago, he took over the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech.

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JULY 19, 2011

The application deadline is Friday, 12 August 2011, at 5pm EDT. Fleets in the following states are welcome to submit proposals: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi and Washington DC.

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MARCH 29, 2012

According to a 2011 report by Pike Research, “green chemistry” will reach a market opportunity of approximately $98 billion by 2020. Working collaboratively with Myriant, DaniMer has successfully demonstrated production of numerous bio-succinic-acid-containing materials at its Bainbridge, Georgia product development center.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

—Arthur Ragauskas of Georgia Institute of Technology. Ragauskas (2011) Chemical, ultrastructural and supramolecular analysis of tension wood in Populus tremula x alba as a model substrate for reduced recalcitrance. This paper illustrates that you need to use an holistic, integrated approach to study the totality of recalcitrance.

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APRIL 19, 2010

The Nissan LEAF begins rolling out to select markets in December, and will be widely available in 2011. The Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for the 2011 all-electric, zero-emission Nissan LEAF is $32,780. Early interest in the Nissan LEAF has been highly encouraging.”.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is launching a new journal— ACS Catalysis — in January 2011. Carl and Sheila Pirkle Faculty Fellow at the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Ga. Jones is the Professor and J.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

The grants awarded were in response to RFP-I, a request for proposals the GRI Research Board issued on 25 April 2011. Knowledge accrued will be applied to restoration and to improving the long-term environmental health of the Gulf of Mexico. Lead Institution: Florida State University. Lead Investigator: Eric Chassignet, Ph.D.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The new transmission plant in Mexico will join existing Honda transmission manufacturing operations in Ohio and Georgia, increasing Honda’s annual transmission production capacity in North America from the current 1.375 million units to more than 1.7

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Shortly thereafter an Apple board member stated Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs (1955-2011) suggested the company could build an EV around the time Tesla arrived on the automotive scene in 2008. Secretive hiring took place at the time, and it was rumored high-level automotive engineers joined the company.

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MAY 4, 2011

Chevy expects to deliver Volts in all 50 states by the end of 2011. Deliveries begin in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii in the third quarter. By the end of the year, more than 2,500 US dealers will receive a dedicated Volt demo.

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JANUARY 29, 2011

million in funding provided by the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund for ocean research projects to refit the former Coast Guard vessel Tsekoa II for ocean research in the Strait of Georgia and off the west coast of Vancouver Island. The refitting contract will go out for bids early in 2011.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Late last week a couple in Atlanta, Georgia became the first owners of the latest battery electric car to hit the roads, the 2011 Wheego LiFe.

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The BMW Group has been researching solutions to take the stress out of parking and to reduce the time spent locating a vacant space since 2011. Ford, which is also tackling the parking problem in its Smart Mobility portfolio, is taking a different approach with its Parking Spotter experiment, conducted with Georgia Tech.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

has produced cellulosic methanol from the initial phase of its first commercial cellulosic biofuels plant near Soperton, Georgia using non-food biomass. Based on analysis of market availability, EPA in July proposed a 2011 cellulosic volume that is lower than the EISA target. Range Fuels, Inc. cellulosic ethanol—in 2010.

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Team members include ORNL’s Sai Venkatesh Pingali, Volker Urban, William Heller, Hugh O'Neill and Marcus Foston and Arthur Ragauskas from Georgia Institute of Technology. Smith (2011) Self-similar multiscale structure of lignin revealed by neutron scattering and molecular dynamics simulation. Heller, Hugh M.

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REPREVE Renewables, based in Georgia, also is the sponsor of the project’s accompanying environmental assessment. 2011, Congress enacted the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012, limiting the total amount of funding available for BCAP to $17 million, a reduction of 96% from funding levels available last spring.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Researchers from Clemson University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have identified a promising new binder material for lithium-ion battery electrodes that not only could boost energy storage, but also eliminate the use of toxic compounds now used to manufacture the components. 1 V vs. Li/Li +. Click to enlarge. 1209150.

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AUGUST 26, 2013

Georgia has a tax credit worth up to $5,000 for zero-emissions vehicles. In Nashville, Nissan gives credit to a robust charging infrastructure and a core group of employee enthusiasts who raised awareness of the practicality of the vehicle in the market in 2011.

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Vanderbilt University, Nissan North America and Georgia Institute of Technology are collaborating to test a new technique to electospin low-platinum-metal-group (low PGM) electrocatalysts with a proton-conducting binder to improve durability and performance of fuel cell electrodes. Earlier post.). Brodt et al. Peter Pintauro. Electrochem.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Joining the rebates already available in states like California, Georgia and Oregon, Tennessee has now announced it will offer a $2,500 tax rebate to the first 1,000 EV buyers in the state. The annoucement will be great news for residents with deposits down for the 2011 Nissan Leaf, Tennessee being one of the first states in which Nissan's.

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JUNE 25, 2011

Using barium oxide nanoparticles, a team of researchers led by Georgia Tech has modified the surface of conventional anodes for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) to enable operation at lower temperatures (750 °C) with carbon-containing gases—e.g., Yang et al. Click to enlarge. gasified coal—by eliminating the coking problem.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

The CAER project is expected to be completed in summer 2011. million to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Ga.) The Kentucky Biofuels Laboratory, an analytical laboratory managed as an open access user facility, will also be located within the new expansion. million to Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.)

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

A new, University of Georgia-led study—the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge— found that up to 500,000 tons of gaseous hydrocarbons were emitted into the deep ocean. Samantha B. Joye, Ian R.

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Due in part to advanced treatment and reuse technology, Ford’s multiple assembly plants in Chongqing reused 250,000 cubic meters of water in 2014; compared with 2011, Ford used 36% less water per vehicle produced in China in 2014.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed an industrial strain of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae which produces ethanol much more rapidly than its parent in fermentations of pretreated pine. The final strain produced ethanol at more than 90% of the maximum theoretical yield after 120 hours of fermentation. Hawkins and Joy B.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

The initial smart parking projects that are part of the Smart Mobility Plan include: The Parking Spotter experiment, conducted with Georgia Tech, leverages driver-assist sensors that most Ford vehicles already have, including sonar and radar. Natl Book Network, 2011. Ford’s initial smart parking projects. Shoup, Donald.

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