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DECEMBER 14, 2022

A study at the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech aims to optimise future robots by exploring the movement mechanisms of flying snakes. The post Flying snakes could help to design next-generation robotics appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

West Virginia wants to ban Tesla and other automakers from sending out over-the-air updates, among other things, to vehicle owners. The […].

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The goal of the project is to design, to test, and to disseminate the initial recommended framework that controls how motorists receive communications—traffic warnings, the too-close approach of another vehicle, weather warnings, or text messages—while driving. We see this as a hugely progressive move.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, recently delivered three hybrid shuttle carriers ordered by The Port of Virginia in late 2014 to Virginia International Gateway terminal (VIG) in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA.

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JUNE 17, 2011

The team from Virginia Tech University received top honors as overall winners of EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge after designing and building an extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) using E85 (ethanol).

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MARCH 3, 2022

Neutron’s Virginia manufacturing complex will be in close proximity to Rocket Lab’s lone American Electron launch pad (LC-2), which is also located at Wallops. Unlike Electron, though, Neutron is being designed from the ground up for partial reusability. hia Peninsula. Starship, Falcon 9, and Neutron to scale. SpaceX/Rocket Lab).

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Virginia Tech launched the second annual Spring Additive Vehicle Design Challenge, a competition for students to design a remote-controlled 3-D printed vehicle that can drive on ground and fly in the air. This is a competition about design, creativity, and problem solving. —Christopher Williams, the W.S.

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MAY 6, 2021

Thomas Built Buses (TBB), a leading manufacturer of school buses in North America; its exclusive Virginia dealer, Sonny Merryman Inc.; The milestone delivery went to Loudon County Public Schools in Virginia as part of phase one of Dominion Energy’s Electric School Bus Initiative. In Virginia, TBB and Sonny Merryman Inc.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. West Virginia University Research Corporation (Morgantown, WV). Each project will receive up to $150,000 in DOE funding. UPSHOTS, LLC (Forsyth, GA).

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

This proposed program, when combined with existing programs and complementary policies, will be designed to achieve substantial reductions in transportation sector emissions and provide net economic and social benefits for participating states. The work of TCI is facilitated by the Georgetown Climate Center.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

By the end of 2021, the Virginia-based fleets will utilize the zero tailpipe emission trucks to transport inbound parts and components daily to the Volvo Trucks New River Valley Assembly Operations (NRV) in Dublin, Virginia, where every Volvo truck in North America is assembled. Producers Dairy.

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APRIL 23, 2022

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA). West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV) . The challenge will span four years and after each year, teams will be evaluated on their vehicle design and process. University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX). University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada).

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MAY 28, 2023

West Virginia University took second place and University of Alabama finished third in the judged competition , which was held from 21–26 May 2023 in Orlando, Florida. The Team’s complex embedded system designs were impressive. They also notched top-3 finishes for their Project Management subteam and their DEI subteam.

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MAY 13, 2021

The nation’s largest brine producer, Texas Brine, and its affiliates have salt positions in New York, Virginia, Texas and Louisiana that will enable access to major load centers in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and the Gulf Coast. The alliance will initially focus on existing sites controlled by Texas Brine and its affiliates.

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MARCH 9, 2023

The Mack MD Electric will be produced at Roanoke Valley Operations (RVO) in Roanoke Valley, Virginia, where Mack began production of the Mack MD Series in 2020. The MD Series cab design features a short bumper-to-back-of-cab (BBC) measurement of 103 inches, an industry best. Both models are exempt from the 12% Federal Excise Tax (FET).

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JULY 28, 2023

The conversion work will be done at CSX’s Huntington, West Virginia locomotive shop. The prototype, designed and built by in-house CP engineers, made its first movement under its own power in late 2021.

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

A team of Virginia Tech engineers has received a three-year, $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy ( earlier post ) to develop new thermoelectric materials and specific designs to improve fuel efficiency and reduce pollution.

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OCTOBER 23, 2021

the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Virginia Tech as partners to bring the SUPER inverter to fruition. In the second year, the team will make all critical components that make up the inverter, including the power module and capacitor, and finalize the inverter’s design. Earlier post.). PolyCharge America, Inc., Wolfspeed, Inc.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

EcoCAR is a collegiate automotive competition aimed at developing a highly skilled, domestic workforce by providing hands-on experience designing and building next-generation mobility solutions to meet our nation’s future energy and mobility challenges. Virginia Tech. West Virginia University. Mississippi State University.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The program will provide nearly $5 billion over five years to help states create a network of EV charging stations along designated Alternative Fuel Corridors, particularly along the Interstate Highway System. West Virginia. These corridors will be the backbone of the new national EV charging network. Rhode Island. South Carolina.

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MARCH 16, 2022

The C-V2X demonstrations will aim to validate Spoke’s first-of-its-kind hardware and software suite, which is designed to be the industry’s first reliable, robust connected system to offer secure, direct communication for contextual awareness and alerts between drivers and bike riders. Virtual cockpit bicycle warning.

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APRIL 20, 2024

McGlone adds that Tesla also plans to design and ship a new pedal to owners at some point. In the post, owner Jim McGlone also writes that Tesla installed a small rivet at the bottom of the accelerator pedal, which will hold the cover in place for the time being. You can see his photo of the pedal following the temporary fix below.

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JUNE 11, 2022

The prototype will be built under a cost-type contract valued at approximately $300 million, depending on options selected, by BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC in facilities in Lynchburg, Virginia and Euclid, Ohio. The reactor is designed to be safely and rapidly moved by road, rail, sea or air.

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MARCH 26, 2009

The fuel will be used by the airport’s operations and the 130 th Air Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard. The facility will be designed using open architecture, allowing the capability to add innovations and advancements in hydrogen technology as they become available. DOE funding for the Yeager Airport project is $2.6

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 23, 2022

GreenPower Motors recently announced its plans to manufacture zero-emission all-electric school buses in West Virginia, and CEO Fraser Atkinson took the time to sit down with me and share some details of this plan and also what inspired him to found GreenPower.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Prototype Vehicle Operators will be tasked with operating a Tesla vehicle in designated areas for data collection. In the job’s description, Tesla notes that Prototype Vehicle Operators will be part of its vehicle data collection team. .” ” Shifts for the job involve rather irregular hours, at 5 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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Electric Cars Report

JANUARY 4, 2024

Virginia-based REVO ZERO announced that its ENERGY zero-emission SUV is now available for pre-order with a $500 refundable deposit. REVO ZERO ENERGY is the first in the world to combine a hydrogen fuel cell and an electric battery into a sleek SUV design, offering both luxury and innovation.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced 15 Phase 1 semifinalists of the American-Made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize, a $4-million competition designed to advance technologies and techniques to support direct lithium extraction from geothermal brines. University of Virginia – Team TELEPORT.

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JUNE 15, 2023

Ford and IperionX have been actively collaborating to design, test and additively manufacture a series of high-quality titanium components for future Ford Performance production vehicles. The titanium components are set to undergo a comprehensive finishing study to assess a range of potential surface finish of parts.

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MARCH 4, 2023

Scout’s trucks and rugged SUVs will be built on a newly designed all-electric platform that delivers credible capability and off-road prowess. Scout Motors is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia. This proximity gives Scout access to major highways, ports of Charleston and Savannah, and universities focused on automotive engineering.

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MARCH 4, 2016

NASA has awarded a contract for the preliminary design of a quiet, “low boom” supersonic flight demonstration aircraft—the first in a new series of ‘X-planes’ in NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in the agency’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget. The Lockheed Martin team includes subcontractors GE Aviation and Tri Models Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Meanwhile, the states with the lowest levels of EV adoption—Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Wyoming, Louisiana, South Dakota, West Virginia and North Dakota—have gone in the opposite direction, with adoption rates declining on average in the first half of 2023.

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JULY 1, 2022

The Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) has ruled in West Virginia v. at 468, one that was designed to function as a gap filler and had rarely been used in the preceding decades. —Opinion in West Virginia v. Utility Air, 573 U.S.,

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MARCH 23, 2022

Volvo Trucks currently has certified dealers in the US in California, New York, and Virginia, as well as in Québec, Canada, with dealerships in several additional states finalizing their Québec throughout 2022.

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APRIL 28, 2022

The new projects will engage the expertise of the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Iowa, Virginia Tech and Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

For its EV delivery fleet, IKEA selected Electrify Commercial, Electrify America’s business unit designed to help deliver turnkey electric vehicle charging solutions, to provide more than 225 individual chargers across the sites. The first locations are expected to open in late 2022 and be completed by the end of 2023.

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JULY 14, 2022

University of Virginia – Team TELEPORT: “Targeted Extraction of Lithium with Electroactive Particles for Recovery Technology (TELEPORT)”. During the next 12 months, these teams will fabricate and test their designs and present their prototypes to a panel of expert reviewers.

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