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JANUARY 17, 2023

Described in a paper in the journal Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment , the modeling approach has low data requirements and is computationally efficient. Funding for this research came from the US Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers Program and Cornell Atkinson. 2022.103505.

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MAY 7, 2019

Funded in part by a $5-million zero-emissions grant from the Federal Aviation Administration, the electric buses replace the aging compressed natural gas bus fleet that has been operating at SJC since 2008. SJC’s deployment is a first for a California airport and among the largest deployments for a US airport.

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AUGUST 14, 2011

Researchers at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, led by Stanley Whittingham, have developed a Si/MgO/graphite composite for use as a high-performance durable anode for lithium-ion batteries. The oxide inside the composite plays a crucial part in stabilizing the capacity by forming a protective layer.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that $5 million is available as part of the first rebate designed specifically for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations at workplaces, office buildings, multi-family apartment buildings, and public locations such as theaters, malls, parks and retail locations.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Because total VMT depends, in part, on the size of the population, of interest in this study was the variation among the states in vehicle miles traveled per person (VMT per person). The states that follow the District of Columbia with the lowest levels of VMT per person are New York, Alaska, Rhode Island, and Hawaii.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Ninety-two of these buses were ordered by three transit agencies in New York State. In addition, the University of Georgia is purchasing four more Orion VII buses for its Campus Transit System, so that it will have a total of eight Orion VII clean-diesel buses in operation.

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MAY 13, 2023

Memory and storage chipmaker Micron announced as much as $100 billion for a new plant in upstate New York. Samsung is planning a $17 billion fab near Austin , Texas, and in September Intel broke ground on the first of two massive new facilities worth $20 billion in central Ohio. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing C o.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A new study released by BMW i and New York University (NYU) finds that, in the coming years and decades, fundamental changes in the demographic makeup of cities will profoundly alter the way people travel. This report, prepared by the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at NYU’s Robert F.

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APRIL 26, 2019

Researchers at Michigan Technological University (MTU) have developed a data-driven optimization modeling framework to reconstruct the location-duration-path choices for the missing observations from incomplete data from connected vehicles. A paper on the work is published in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.

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APRIL 15, 2014

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have created new ceramic materials that could be used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently. The work is at the proof of concept stage and is part of a $1.2-million

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MAY 4, 2012

The projects, in brief: Black Warrior Basin: A strategic partnership of the University of Alabama, the Geological Survey of Alabama, Rice University, Schlumberger Carbon Services and Alabama Power is studying an area with multiple promising CO 2 storage reservoirs and seals.

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MARCH 20, 2011

Automotive X Prize teams from New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana will compete at the 7 th Annual Green Grand Prix Friday, April 15, at Watkins Glen International. Two of the vehicles are educational entries from Cornell University and West Philadelphia High School. mile) short course. mile) short course.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is awarding $4.6 million to help 17 New York State companies develop and commercialize innovative new transportation technologies intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, decrease reliance on fossil fuels, and create jobs. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 2, 2018

McGovern Family Center for Venture Development in the Life Sciences at Cornell University and received support from the National Science Foundation and NYSERDA. Wei You, Kristina M. Hugar, and Geoffrey W. 8b00209.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year, the list of colleges with “open learning initiatives” of various kinds has boomed, and much of that has been part of an essential drive to modernize their classrooms and push the cost of education down. For example, both the City and State University of New York systems are investing millions in OER.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Chevrolet is investing in clean energy efficiency initiatives of US colleges and universities through its voluntary carbon-reduction initiative. Such funding enables universities to reduce their impact and save money on utility bills while engaging and educating students in their efforts. Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

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APRIL 11, 2019

About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) air pollution, according to an open-access study published in The Lancet Planetary Health by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH).

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APRIL 15, 2014

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have created new ceramic materials that could be used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently. The work is at the proof of concept stage and is part of a $1.2-million

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JUNE 4, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $24 million in funding for 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration ( MEITNER ).

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

A study led by environmental health scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health examined the release of vapors from gasoline station vent pipes, and found benzene emissions were 10 times higher than estimates used in setback regulations that determine how close schools, playgrounds, and parks can be to the facilities.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

A new report by Dr. Michael Sivak at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) shows a recent increase in the proportion of US households without a vehicle. Part 4: Households without a Light-Duty Vehicle” (UMTRI-2014-5). Sivak performed two analyses on data from the American Community Survey.

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MARCH 31, 2025

To make a correction to a map, these civil engineering professors at Ohio State University recommend the following steps: With a smooth, sharp knife pick the ink from the paper. By 1937, discussions of electric erasers were part of the library science curriculum at Columbia University. Consider the careful technique Roscoe C.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

BMW of North America and the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) are partnering on a year-long field study to determine the viability of electric vehicles. MINI E customers, based primarily in Los Angeles with a few in the New York City-area, will participate in the study.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Zipcar is currently evaluating locations for a downtown office, hiring full time and part time staff, and aiming to become an entrenched part of the community. Sacramento is a perfect example of our inside out approach to developing markets that may not have the density of a New York or San Francisco.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Educational seminars and displays by appropriate manufacturers and vendors are also part of the day’s activities. Individuals, colleges and universities, car clubs and manufacturers are all invited to participate. The day-long 2014 Toyota Green Grand Prix will present a two-stage road rally and NYElectrathon races.

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JUNE 7, 2023

The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. He founded the university’s Energy Systems Research Center in 1968 and served as its director until he retired in 2003. The attendees came from more than 750 universities and companies worldwide. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.

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MAY 25, 2016

parts per billion (ppb) NO x. The effects were seen even in the United States where efforts to reduce exposure have been notably successful compared with many other parts of the world, Dr. Kaufman noted. The clinics were in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, St. μg PM 2.5 /m For each 5 μg PM 2.5 /m

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AUGUST 27, 2022

The center, part of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program supported by the US Department of Energy, was created in 2018 with an initial $10.75-million CABES was one of 42 centers awarded funding in 2018; this year, more than $540 million was given out to 65 universities and national labs.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? Imagine it is 2013 in New York City. But do electric cars make sense in New York City, where streets are snarled with traffic and many people park on the streets rather than in their own driveways?

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JULY 29, 2016

Binghamton University (State University of New York). Stanford University. University of California, San Diego. University of Texas at Austin. University of Washington. Other Battery500 Consortium members include: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (leader). Idaho National Laboratory.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

With increasing pressures from urbanization and the need to reduce energy use, we’re going to see energy storage, wireless connectivity, sensing systems and even autonomous vehicles as key parts of the solution. —Paul Mascarenas, Ford chief technical officer and vice president of Research and Innovation.

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APRIL 6, 2011

As part of the SunShot Initiative, the US Department of Energy has selected three consortia for up to $112.5 This program is modeled in part on SEMATECH (Semiconductor Manufacturing TECHnology). Funding was made available for applicants in university and industry.

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MAY 13, 2012

The hybrid rotor’s high volumetric efficiency increases its power density and the concentric rotation design eliminates troublesome parts from the transmission mechanisms that exist in many compressors today. The Stripper Well Consortium is managed and administered by The Pennsylvania State University.

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JANUARY 22, 2012

a developer of metal matrix composite (MMC) transportation and aerospace components, is teaming with researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) to develop a next-generation aluminum composite brake rotor for automobiles potentially weighing 60% less than today’s cast iron rotors with triple the life expectancy.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

The federal Clean Air Act and associated environmental regulations have driven steep declines in air pollution emissions over the past several decades, even as US manufacturers increased production, according to a study by two University of California, Berkeley, economists. Shapiro and Reed Walker (2018) “ Why is Pollution from U.S.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program (Ithaca, New York) will measure, characterize and evaluate the influences of construction and operation noises from Offshore Alternative Energy (OAE) activities on seasonally resident and migratory, acoustically active marine vertebrates.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

The study was released by the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Maritime Administration (MARAD) and was conducted through a cooperative partnership with the Maritime Administration, the University of Delaware and The Rochester Institute of Technology. In all cases, they evaluated the use of LNG as an alternative to distillate fuels.

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