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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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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Folks here already know what’s going on with the environment and how EVs fit into the big picture.” When we raced the Lightnings in Cleveland, the organizers had to pay to be on the schedule, but they had money from electric utilities,” Erb explained. “We We usually choose the grocery stores and malls that have installed chargers.”

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. Electric Grid OT Cybersecurity Dashboard for Control Room Environments, $600,000. Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania).

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Car Congress

Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000. The facility is used by the LRTA to store, fuel, maintain, and repair transportation vehicles (buses, vans, tow trucks etc.) as well as administrative and dispatch services. Milwaukee County Department of Transportation and Public Works, Wisconsin: $210,000.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

Cars That Think

To enable aerial reorientation for safe landing in the quadruped robots, we design a control architecture, which is verified in a high-fidelity physics simulation environment with different initial conditions. Daltorio from Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and University of Portland, in Portland, Oregon, USA.

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