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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

Cars That Think

The competition “allows students to take an idea, a passion, and turn it from a simple prototype to a fully deployed solution,” says Stephanie Gillespie , associate dean of the University of New Haven’s engineering college , in Connecticut. It can plant seeds, pick up tools, and weed and water the plants.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

s Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project. The project will result in the development of approximately 184 liquid propane Autogas refueling stations in the following major metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Denver, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dallas, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Seattle, Orlando, San Diego, St.