Date: Thursday, January 12 from 7:30 am to 6:30 pm Venue: TechColumbus 1275 Kinnear Road Columbus, Ohio 43212 Directions The Advanced Energy Hub will be holding multiple learning sessions to highlight various clean, green and industry clustering activities in the central Ohio region. The Morning Session will include: Register for Morning Session 7:30 am Registration […]
Read MoreI have assembled a fact sheet based on industry wide conference calls that I have participated in between Friday (March 11, 2011) and now (this is updated as needed). The most important thing that I can suggest to everyone is don’t trust anything that you find on the internet unless it is backed up by someone from the nuclear industry. The American Nuclear Society, the Nuclear Energy Institute, Nuclear Infrastructure Council, and the International Atomic Energy Agency are working diligently to distribute facts to organizations like the NFC and EWI. However, it is still extremely difficult to discern facts from hypotheses because few experts can provide firsthand accounts of the situation.
Read MoreThis past August the Buckeye Bullet 2.5 team broke the land speed record for a battery powered vehicle on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The average speed was 307.66 MPH in the mile and the top recorded speed was 320 MPH. The Buckeye Bullet team is a student run team based out of the Center for Automotive […]
Read MoreTwo events roughly two weeks and two miles apart in Troy, MI showed that the US is taking the lead in the manufacture of energy sources for the rapidly expanding electrified vehicle market. On September 8th EWI hosted the Battery Manufacturing & Joining Technology Symposium and hosted 135 people to discuss the challenges they face […]
Read MoreEWI’s CEO, Henry Cialone, was quoted throughout an article in the Columbus Dispatch on Ohio being designated as an energy hub. The quotes include: “…while there are 18 labs devoted to energy storage research, there are zero devoted to energy manufacturing. We said we’d like to change that.” “The biggest challenge to the nation’s manufacturing […]
Read MoreEWI has had the honor of working with The Ohio State University Buckeye Bullet team for the last several years. This is a student led group that designs and builds the FASTEST electric vehicles in the world. Their first car, the Buckeye Bullet I, was a battery powered car that set the work record at […]
Read MoreLast Saturday I took a break from green thinking and lived a decidedly “ungreen” automotive life for a day. The Woodward Dream Cruise is a celebration of horsepower and anything on wheels, and attracts 40,000 cars and an estimated one million spectators. Woodward Avenue has historical significance. In 1909, a one mile stretch of Woodward was […]
Read MoreCUSTOMER The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) is an interdisciplinary research center in The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Engineering. CAR research focuses on advanced propulsion systems and alternative fuels for reduced fuel consumption and lower emissions. The Buckeye Bullet team from CAR is a student-led group that designs and builds the fastest electric […]
Read MoreEWI has a great collection of high power lasers that are being used for manufacturing items from small batteries to 48” gas transmission pipelines. This is the first in a series of blogs exploring these cool toys. The challenges in fuel cell product development are great. The technologies of electro-chemistry and material performance are very […]
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