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Honda secures auto industry’s largest renewable energy purchase; 60% reduction in CO2 from N.A. manufacturing operations

Green Car Congress

These VPPAs will enable Honda to fully offset the remaining carbon-intensive grid-supplied electricity being used in its Ohio, Indiana, and Alabama automobile manufacturing operations, and will help the company meet its voluntary carbon reduction goal.

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One EV enthusiast leads to anothe

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. I named the chapter “Drive Electric Dayton (DED).”

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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. I named the chapter “Drive Electric Dayton (DED).”

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

Cars That Think

And yet more air conditioning exacerbates the very problem—climate change—that is driving the need for more air conditioning. Re-Enters the Nuclear Fuel Game Uranium is enriched in centrifuge cascades, such as this one at a Centrus Energy plant in Piketon, Ohio. What to do? Two words: heat pumps.

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The Top 10 EV Battery Makers

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Racing to counter Asia's dominance, General Motors is building factories in Ohio and Tennessee with a combined 70-gigawatt capacity, double that of Tesla's Nevada gigafactory. Larger, prismatic cells integrate directly in packs, which saves space, reduces component count, and simplifies cooling and connections.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

Cars That Think

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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Fly the Hybrid Skies

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Commercial aviation is the connective tissue of the modern world. It also produces contrails, which are being studied for their impact on climate change. In the United States, an Aviation Climate Action Plan had already emerged with essentially the same goal3.The Aviation regulators are uniting to address these concerns.

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