Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2016

A new report, “ Automated Vehicle Crash Rate Comparison Using Naturalistic Data ,” performed by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and commissioned by Google, shows that the crash rates for self-driving cars are lower than the national crash rate of conventional cars.

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Teslarati

MARCH 28, 2024

This year, TBC added three mini-competitions or projects that can be completed in shorter timelines than the main event. For the 2024 Not-a-Boring Competition’s main event, teams will compete in three categories. The student teams will compete based on maximum tunneling speed and innovation. Who can beat Gary the Snail?

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Increased diversity seen in 2021 National Drive Electric Week events. EV Club of the South NDEW event in the Atlanta area. states experienced an increase in diversity when it came to this year’s National Drive Electric Week events. It definitely paid off at our big event at Northpoint Mall.” We can’t just say, ‘electrify.’

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

For the second leg of competition, teams headed to southern California for track events, including autocross, acceleration, and consumer appeal at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. West Virginia University and University of Alabama teams finished second and third place, respectively.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2022

The new research projects, announced during a virtual CSRC media event showcasing safer mobility, will examine the diversity of safety needs and analyze safe mobility options that accommodate a variety of applications, physical characteristics and levels of accessibility for people and society.

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Amazing NDEW Events around the country! NDEW event in Thornburg, Virginia. Last month, we highlighted National Drive Electric Week events in the Southwest, the far Northwest, and the lower Northwest. Our chapter also hosted a smaller event on Spetember 25 with 12 cars on display.” NDEW event in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Volvo Trucks North America brought customers, partners, and media out to its customer center in Dublin, Virginia as part of its 2022 Electromobility Summit.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2022

Several electrolyte and thin-film coating technologies, developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have been licensed by BTRY , a battery technology company based in Virginia, to make batteries with increased energy density, at lower cost, and with an improved safety profile in crashes.

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Increased diversity seen in 2021 National Drive Electric Week events. EV Club of the South NDEW event in the Atlanta area. states experienced an increase in diversity when it came to this year’s National Drive Electric Week events. It definitely paid off at our big event at Northpoint Mall.” We can’t just say, ‘electrify.’

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 2, 2022

More Drive Electric Earth Day events than ever before; EVA chapters get funding. It’s looking like a very successful Drive Electric Earth Day (DEED) is on the horizon, with a record 180 events taking place throughout April. Community Partners include Climate Action Reserve , Forth , and Virginia Clean Cities.

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 1, 2022

More than 200 Drive Electric Earth Day events draw big numbers. Drive Electric Dayton’s Trotwood, Ohio DEED event at Trotwood-Madison High School. Drive Electric Earth Day (DEED), with more events across the U.S. Our chapter events featured EVs including the Kia EV6, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Rivian, and even the Aptera.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Virginia Tech. West Virginia University. Mississippi State University. The Ohio State University. University of Alabama. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. University of Washington. University of Waterloo. Other participating sponsors include: NXP Semiconductors, Inc.; dSPACE, Inc.; The Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.

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Teslarati

MARCH 24, 2023

Updated Hard Braking Safety Factor to exclude braking events that occur when the vehicle detects a yellow traffic light. The previous release of Safety Score featured visualizations of how specific events during a trip impacted your grade. Late Night Driving was also added as a safety factor, but the new 2.0 I’d love to hear from you!

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

This project will include outreach and education with in-language ZEV education materials including pamphlets, website content, social media, print media advertising, email communications, community events and word-of-mouth campaigns.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The facility, to which GM contributed $5 million, uses advanced tire performance machinery that will enable automakers and tire manufacturers to replicate real-world emergency events and improve vehicle highway safety. By some estimates, tire design can help improve fuel efficiency by up to 7%.

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Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Within a few years, outreach efforts by these chapter members at local electric vehicle (EV) events had grown to include presentations at conferences around the country, and eventually around the world. I own 12 LEVs for my family at this point, and I always keep one in my car so I can take it out when I go to an outreach event,” Smith said.

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Inland Empire Vehicle Association NDEW event. We were also able to purchase supplies, including canopy tents that we’ll use again for future events,” she continued. “It Drive Electric RVA NDEW event. NDEW grants total $13,000 to educate communities. It just made all the difference,”.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Promotion for NDEW event in Clay, New York. Plans for the September 25 through October 3 event have been made around the country to take full advantage of this opportune climate. Plans for the September 25 through October 3 event have been made around the country to take full advantage of this opportune climate.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

Virginia Tech. In Year 2 the teams will refine their concept selections into solid system developments and will have more challenging dynamic events for testing on-site, including dynamic object detection and multiple lane changing. The participating universities are: Kettering University. Michigan State University. Michigan Tech.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Promotion for NDEW event in Clay, New York. Plans for the September 25 through October 3 event have been made around the country to take full advantage of this opportune climate. Plans for the September 25 through October 3 event have been made around the country to take full advantage of this opportune climate.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

In August 2022, GreenPower Motor Company moved into an 80,000-square-foot factory in West Virginia, where it manufactures the Type D BEASTs and other electric school bus models. The company aims to have 200 employees at the factory by the end of 2024 and wants to create up to 900 new jobs there.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): TAMU ] Fourteen years ago, a team of engineering experts and Virginia Tech students competed in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge and propelled Torc to success.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

Rounding out the top three are Virginia Tech in second place and the University of Alabama in third place. The Ohio State University has been named The EcoCAR Mobility Challenge Year One champion, taking the lead in the premier four-year collegiate engineering competition.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2023

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Preceding the global events of 2020, the IHMC Robotics Open House was an annual event. This year was the organization’s first opportunity to participate in National Robotics Week since then.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The preliminary draft agenda is available on the meeting event page. The meeting will include both general sessions and breakout groups to look at the roadmap narratives relating to standards for electric vehicles, the built infrastructure and related support services.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The series of tests, which occurred this summer in the skies over Virginia, used commercial smartphones connecting to standard 4G and 5G wireless networks operated by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2011

At the end of each academic year, teams compete in more than two dozen static and dynamic events for top honors and $100,000 in cash prizes. Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia). In Year Two teams incorporate their new powertrains, and in the final year, teams refine their vehicles to near-showroom quality.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech will develop a high-power density, cost-effective ±5 kV cable for twin-aisle all-electric aircraft. Designed for DC voltage, the new insulator will allow fewer partial discharge events and provide improved electromagnetic interference protection. University of Tennessee.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The NAFTC, a program of West Virginia University, has produced the Electric Drive Vehicle First Responder Safety Training, a curriculum developed under the NAFTC’s Advanced Electric Drive Vehicle Education Program, funded by the US Department of Energy. The other train-the-trainer sessions have occurred at past NAFTC events in Gallagher, W.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 26, 2024

The first fully electric NASCAR will make its public debut during the Busch Light Clash at The Coliseum event in Los Angeles on February 4th. And, yes — we know that it’s not called “a NASCAR,” but just go with it.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2011

NET) and the City of Roanoke, Virginia, plan to debut jointly NET’s MotionPower-Express system, capable of generating electricity from moving vehicles. New Energy Technologies, Inc. Earlier post.) on 22 October.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far ( send us your events !): TAMU ] Fourteen years ago, a team of engineering experts and Virginia Tech students competed in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge and propelled Torc to success.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2013

Nissan is demonstrating the breadth of the capability of its autonomous drive technology for the first time at Nissan 360, a test drive and stakeholder interaction event being held in Southern California. —CEO Carlos Ghosn.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2021

At the DARPA event, Keromytis showed the results of a test in which a trojan was inserted in the FPGA's firmware that would result in the neural network misidentifying an image of an Iranian fighter jet as a commercial aircraft.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The series of tests, which occurred this summer in the skies over Virginia, used commercial smartphones connecting to standard 4G and 5G wireless networks operated by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

Virginia Tech earned second place with an ethanol EREV design and Penn State came in third place building a biodiesel EREV. In addition to the overall winner’s award, Mississippi State won nine additional awards including performance events in auto-cross and acceleration. kWh battery pack in a split parallel architecture.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) contracted with the Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions at West Virginia University to conduct in-use testing of three light-duty diesel vehicles (two 2.0L diesels and one 3.0L diesel) over pre-defined test routes exhibiting diverse driving conditions. Click to enlarge.

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