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7 finalists announced for USDOT Smart City Challenge; Amazon Web Services new partner

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The USDOT has pledged up to $40 million (funding subject to future appropriations) to one city to help it define what it means to be a “Smart City “and become the country’s first city to fully integrate innovative technologies—self-driving cars, connected vehicles, and smart sensors—into their transportation network.

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One EV enthusiast leads to anothe

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Making connections to grow chapter influence BY TIM BENFORD, PRESIDENT OF DRIVE ELECTRIC DAYTON, PAST VICE-PRESIDENT OF ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. The organization grows My first connection came when folks from the Columbus non-profit Clean Fuels Ohio saw my Facebook page. Media links and more.

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One EV enthusiast leads to another

Electric Auto Association

Making connections to grow chapter influence BY TIM BENFORD, PRESIDENT OF DRIVE ELECTRIC DAYTON, PAST VICE-PRESIDENT OF ELECTRIC AUTO ASSOCIATION. The organization grows My first connection came when folks from the Columbus non-profit Clean Fuels Ohio saw my Facebook page. Media links and more.

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$3M Award Supports Production of New Multi-tasking Fuzzy Fiber Nanomaterial; Energy Applications

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—NAHF-XTM inventor Khalid Lafdi, Group Leader for Carbon Materials at UDRI. Everybody is growing carbon nanotubes on substrates. After successfully controlling growth of carbon nanotubes on individual carbon fibers, researchers accomplished the same on a type of carbon-fiber yarn and eventually on engineered textiles.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture. in systems engineering at Ohio State University , in Columbus.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). Demonstrate a prototype flow battery system that can be grid connected, charged and discharged, and scaled to utility power levels. 10,877,258. Ktech Corporation (NM). 10,000,000.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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Primary lithium chemistries include: manganese spinel cathode and lithium titanate anode for high power applications, as well as manganese spinel cathode and amorphous carbon for high energy applications. Bristol, TN Columbus, GA. Production of battery-grade lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide. General Motors Corporation.

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