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Traveling by electric car through the rural Shenandoah Valley is not a thing of the future. The future is now, as electric car owners can today plan a travel route through the Valley and beyond, with well-placed stations to recharge from the Tennessee border all the way to Northern Virginia.
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Dominion Energy Virginia is preparing to send restoration workers and equipment to accelerate ongoing restoration efforts on the island through the mutual aid process.
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Governor McAuliffe announced the release of a Request for Proposal to deploy an interconnected and statewide public electric vehicle charging network.
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Governor McAuliffe announced that 319 state and local government vehicles have been transitioned to alternative fuel in the Commonwealth.
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Volvo has announced that it will only sell hybrid and electric cars beginning in 2019, signaling a shift in the auto industry as a whole.
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Researchers at Virginia Tech have built a device to convert wasted heat to useful electricity.
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A public electric vehicle charging station has been installed at the Harry F. Byrd Visitor Center parking lot at Milepost 51 on Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park.
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A public electric vehicle charging station has been installed at the Harry F. Byrd Visitor Center parking lot at Milepost 51 on Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park.
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The 255 million cars on the road in the United States account for 40 percent of the country’s fuel consumption. Most of that fuel is wasted. Lei Zuo, an associate professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, may have a partial solution: harvesting energy from the car’s suspension.
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Physicists define kinetic energy as the energy of motion (as opposed to potential energy, which represents an object’s stored energy). While there is not much that is practical that we can do with potential energy, kinetic energy is another matter.
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