Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

The first of five planned West Virginia solar farms just came online – here’s why that’s significant for the state. 1 out of 5 new West Virginia solar farms FirstEnergy subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison have launched a solar farm on 80 acres at Fort Martin Power Station in Maidsville, West Virginia, north of Morgantown.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The Virginia Tech institute has been building connected-vehicle technology since 2001. The institute, in coordination with the Virginia Department of Transportation, has a $14-million connected-vehicle test bed along Interstates 66 and 495 near Fairfax, Va.,

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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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JANUARY 21, 2014

A Virginia Tech research team led by Dr. Y.H. The enzymes and fuels used to build the device are biodegradable. Support for the current research comes from the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech and Cell-Free Bioinnovations, a biotech start-up, located in Blacksburg, Va.

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JUNE 11, 2022

BWXT) will build the first advanced nuclear microreactor in the United States under a contract awarded by the US Department of Defense (DoD) Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO). BWX Technologies, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Virginia Tech will host a university-wide competition for students to design on-demand, remote-controlled 3-D printed aircraft and ground vehicles. This competition promises to catapult Virginia Tech to a leadership position in additive manufacturing linked to robotic systems. according to challenge organizers.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

The Volvo Group has announced that it will build a new heavy-duty truck manufacturing plant in Mexico to supplement the Group’s U.S. The Mack LVO plant in Pennsylvania and the Volvo NRV plant in Virginia will continue to be the company’s main North American heavy truck production sites. production.

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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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JULY 21, 2014

The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute has been awarded two federal contracts worth a combined potential $55 million to further study safety efforts for commercial truck drivers and break new ground in the burgeoning field of automated vehicles. These studies by Blanco were carried out on the Virginia Smart Road, in Blacksburg.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 15, 2023

CATL is trying to find a way to build a battery factory in North America, but navigating the political crosscurrents is difficult.

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APRIL 6, 2023

At its core, the research is focused on harnessing carbon, the key building block for synthetic graphite and many other products. The goal of this joint research project is to build upon previous research by both organizations and develop a novel process that uses the carbon in coal as a feedstock instead.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Ford may announce as early as next week that it will build a new $3.5 battery factory in Michigan where CATL will manufacture LFP batteries,

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APRIL 23, 2022

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA). West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV) . The EcoCAR EV Challenge, managed by DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, builds on a 34-year history of DOE Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions. University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA). University of California, Davis (Davis, CA).

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APRIL 1, 2022

It also builds on the work that NV Energy is doing to build electric vehicle charging infrastructure and help fleets electrify vehicles, as directed by Senate Bill 448. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. Washington.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Now, the Autonomous Technology Group will extend its testing to New Mexico by building up a new testing center in Albuquerque. Initial public road testing on highways began in September in southwest Virginia, where Torc is headquartered. Earlier post.). Daimler Trucks and Torc started their collaboration in spring 2019.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Toyota will invest an additional $90 million in two of its US manufacturing facilities to boost hybrid transaxle and engine capacity: Toyota West Virginia (TMMWV) – $73 million. Currently, a team of more than 2,000 build approximately one million engines and transmissions annually for many of Toyota’s North American-assembled vehicles.

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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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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. Two similar facilities are being planned for West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The facility will use grid electricity to split water to produce pure hydrogen fuel. DOE funding for the Yeager Airport project is $2.6

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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. We look forward to seeing the teams continue to use MATLAB and Simulink to build and simulate their EV designs throughout the duration of the multi-year competition.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

billion contract by Dominion Energy Virginia to help build what will be the largest offshore wind farm in the US, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. A consortium of Belgian dredging company Deme Group and Italian cable manufacturer Prysmian Group has been awarded a $1.1

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium at West Virginia University (WVU) has received a $1.15-million By building and operating a new hydrogen fueling station in Morgantown, West Virginia University will demonstrate running automobiles on hydrogen fuel made from coal-powered electricity.

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MAY 25, 2022

Sparkz announced in March it will begin construction in 2022 of a Gigafactory in West Virginia to commercialize their zero-cobalt battery which will initially employ 350 workers and could grow to as many as 3,000. We have lost thousands of mining jobs over the last decade in West Virginia. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 29, 2024

Delays in getting electrical service hooked up represent one of the biggest roadblocks to building more EV charging hubs, and several industry insiders have told Charged that a major reason for those delays is a shortage of transformers. Source: Hitachi Energy , Electrek The post Hitachi Energy invests $1.5

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APRIL 7, 2015

A team of Virginia Tech researchers and colleagues has demonstrated the complete conversion of glucose and xylose from pretreated plant biomass to H 2 and CO 2 based on an in vitro synthetic enzymatic pathway crafted from more than 10 purified enzymes. —Lonnie Ingram.

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EV Obssesion

JANUARY 13, 2022

Electric Buses BYD Celebrates a Decade of Bus Electrification to Support Global Zero-Emission Goals GreenPower Announces Plan to Manufacture Zero-Emission, All Electric School Buses in West Virginia EV Charging BMW i Ventures Invests in Y Combinator Alum HeyCharge to Amplify EV Charging Rollout at Residential Locations.

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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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JANUARY 6, 2022

UGI expects to invest either solely, jointly with Vertimass or in partnership with third parties to build and operate multiple production facilities over the next 15 years in locations across the US and Europe, significantly increasing the supply of renewable-propane and SAF.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Spain-headquartered renewables giant Siemens Gamesa announced today that it will build a new offshore wind turbine blade factory in Virginia. The $200 million factory will be the first of its kind in the US. more… The post The US is getting its first offshore wind blade factory appeared first on Electrek.

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OCTOBER 23, 2021

the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Virginia Tech as partners to bring the SUPER inverter to fruition. This research and development project is one of 24 university and industry-led projects that collectively were awarded $60 million in an effort to reduce CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector. Earlier post.). Wolfspeed, Inc.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 18, 2024

It's not like Boeing bouncing from Seattle to Chicago to Virginia, or even United Airlines decamping Chicago for its suburbs (or McDonald's, which moved from Chicago's suburbs to the city proper). But it does mean that GM will be leaving one of the most recognizable buildings on the Detroit skyline. The General is moving just a mile.

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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. Rhode Island. South Carolina. 10,360,855. South Dakota. 13,074,884. 60,356,706.

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Green Car Congress

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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Electrek

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin – whose state’s banner industry, coal mining, has been largely unionized and been central to the US labor movement since soon after its inception – today called the proposed $4,500 union-made EV tax credit “wrong” and “not American.” more… The post Sen. .”

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Electrek

JUNE 1, 2021

Richmond, Virginia-headquartered Dominion Energy is building the Charybdis , the first Jones Act-qualified offshore wind turbine installation vessel in the US. Interesting name choice for the vessel – a dangerous mythological sea monster.).

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Teslarati

MARCH 22, 2024

The Biden Administration released $11.295 million in federal grants to the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) as part of the first round of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program.

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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. Mississippi State University.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While technologies such as building automation systems, solar hot water heaters and infrared heaters helped drive NRV’s energy reductions, many of the energy-saving ideas have come from employees. The Volvo Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines.

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