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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

For GEVA, the center has provided needed space for chapter meetings, as well as larger space for National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) events. Most of the members were much more interested in building one,” Garver said, explaining that some of the early members worked as engineers for McDonnell Douglas and NASA.

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EV gateway

Electric Auto Association

For GEVA, the center has provided needed space for chapter meetings, as well as larger space for National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) events. Most of the members were much more interested in building one,” Garver said, explaining that some of the early members worked as engineers for McDonnell Douglas and NASA.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

Green Car Congress

At an event in Washington, President Obama announced that the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) will lead the new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, in partnership with the Department of Energy. Missouri U. Georgia Institute of Technology; Idaho National Laboratory; Jet Propulsion National Laboratory; Lamar U.;

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How NIST Learns from Horrific Disaster

Cars That Think

NIST's wind maps are used to calculate potential wind loads on new buildings, and ultimately help to support the development of building codes. On the evening of Sunday, 22 May 2011, a multiple-vortex tornado touched down in the city of Joplin, Missouri. Nine months in to Lombardo's job, however, everything changed.

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How NIST Learns from Horrific Disaster

Cars That Think

NIST's wind maps are used to calculate potential wind loads on new buildings, and ultimately help to support the development of building codes. On the evening of Sunday, 22 May 2011, a multiple-vortex tornado touched down in the city of Joplin, Missouri. Nine months in to Lombardo's job, however, everything changed.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

When I spoke out against the home-porting of the battleship Missouri with its nuclear tomahawk cruise missile arsenal, the folks at the Alliance for Survival called and asked me, “Do you just talk about stuff or do you DO anything too?” So I wrote some more screenplays and began developing TV sitcoms that nobody wanted to produce either.

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Stage 1 of the Electrek American Solar Challenge complete; here are the results

Baua Electric

Image via American Solar Challenge 2022 In case you missed it, the ASC is a biennial colligate competition in which teams from schools around the world design, build, and drive solar-powered vehicles across the United States. At this stage, the solar cars drove from Nashville, TN, to Edwardsville, IL, with a checkpoint stop in Paducah, KY.

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