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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

Electric Auto Association

I love that my EV is so efficient: EVs convert over 77% of the electrical energy from the grid to power at the wheels. We routinely drive to see our daughter in Washington, DC and have driven to Cleveland, Boston, New York and Charleston, SC without concern. Vehicle safety is very important to me and many others.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Green Car Congress

Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. El Centro, Calif. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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The program’s Subsonic Fixed Wing Project oversees the work at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Langley Research Center in Virginia. Moreover, the fuel burn reduction and the ‘greening’ of the electrical power grid can produce large reductions in emissions of life cycle CO 2 and nitrous oxide.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

Cars That Think

NASA Glenn Research Center , in Cleveland, are investigating whether this approach could one day provide enough power to operate small robotic probes on the surface of Mars, for example. The vials are placed upside down to align the metal with the gamma ray beam. Gamma rays have turned the clear glass amber.

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

Green Car Congress

Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Hydrogen Based Power Grid Support Using ElectrolyzeRs with Value Stacking (HYPER-V), $250,000. Electric Grid OT Cybersecurity Dashboard for Control Room Environments, $600,000. Johnson-Matthey (Cleveland, United Kingdom).

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

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Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000. PV canopies will produce power and reduce temperatures underneath canopies.

Emissions 256