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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

Cars That Think

Waterproof sensors that track flooding As part of the Sunny Day Flooding Project, Katherine Anarde, assistant professor in North Carolina State University’s Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Group [right] and another researcher install low-cost water-level sensors in storm drains. Here are four of the 10 projects.

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National Drive Electric Week extends EV access

Electric Auto Association

Every neighborhood deserves clean air and the transition to EVs is the quickest way to get there.” National Drive Electric Week event hosts from across North America feel the same way. Representatives of ChargePoint took part in a charging station debut at the North Carolina Zoo in Randolph County.

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National Drive Electric Week extends EV access

Electric Auto Association

Every neighborhood deserves clean air and the transition to EVs is the quickest way to get there.” National Drive Electric Week event hosts from across North America feel the same way. Representatives of ChargePoint took part in a charging station debut at the North Carolina Zoo in Randolph County.

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

Green Car Congress

The project will include vehicles and fueling infrastructure for electric, hybrid-electric, compressed natural gas, propane, E85, and biodiesel fuels and technologies to be deployed throughout North Carolina and South Carolina. Total DOE award: $12,975,388.