{"70162":{"#nid":"70162","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Solar Jackets Win Electric Vehicle Case Competition for Idea to \u0027ChargeATL\u0027","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach day, many students cross the Fifth Street Bridge not thinking much of the downtown connector that exhales exhaust below; but a few are working to electrify the cars that pass beneath. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a competition\nhosted by the City of Atlanta and Emory University\u2019s Goizueta Business School,\na team of Georgia Tech students earned first prize and a monetary award for\nproposing a system for electric vehicle adoption in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate students\nCorbin Klett, Matt Jacobson, Logan Marett, Kevin Miron and Andrew Vaziri earned\n$5,000 for their proposal of how to drive demand for 50,000 electric cars on Atlanta\u2019s\nroads during a two-year period. The students represent both Solar Jackets, Georgia\nTech\u2019s student group dedicated to the design, creation and expansion of solar\ntechnology, and the College of Management\u0027s Technology and Management Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur approach\nwas to devise creative and unique solutions to electric vehicle adoption,\nemphasizing ways of reducing the cost to the city government,\u201d said Jacobson. \u201cWe\nstressed branding and education, creating a new \u2018EV Brand\u2019 we dubbed ChargeATL,\nand a website mockup to go along with it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe City will use funding received from the Department of Energy to implement ideas generated from the competition, with the goal of the Atlanta area being the first region in the country to have 50,000 electric vehicles on its roads. The Mayor\u2019s office wanted to utilize the creativity of Georgia students to find ways to make the state competitive in this market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Solar Jackets were incredible, coming up with as much as they did on their own,\u201d said Jules Toraya, program manager in the City of Atlanta Mayor\u2019s Office of Sustainability. \u201cThey stood out over the rest because they had answers \u2014 answers to tough questions, how to get budgets \u2014 and you could tell they had scoped out their ideas and had conviction about them.\u201d Execution of these ideas will begin with an effort to pass electric vehicle-related legislation in the fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFour other\nteams presented at the competition on Sept. 13, including three from Tech and\none from Emory. The groups were chosen from a pool of nearly 30 team\napplications spanning many Georgia universities, including Tech, Emory and the\nUniversity of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was an\nexciting opportunity to be able to tackle a problem the City of Atlanta is\nfacing and feel like we could have an impact,\u201d said Melissa McCoy, who\nparticipated on another Georgia Tech team. \u201cThe Solar Jackets team did a truly\namazing job.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a competition hosted by the City of Atlanta and Emory University\u2019s Goizueta Business School, a team of Georgia Tech students earned first prize and a monetary reward for proposing a system for electric vehicle adoption in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech students earn first prize for a system encouraging electric vehicle adoption in Atlanta."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2011-09-22 08:54:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:14","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-09-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-09-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"70143":{"id":"70143","type":"image","title":"Solar Jackets Win Emory Electric Vehicle Case Competition","body":null,"created":"1449177288","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:48","changed":"1475894616","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:36","alt":"Solar Jackets Win Emory Electric Vehicle Case Competition","file":{"fid":"192915","name":"dsc_0006.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dsc_0006_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dsc_0006_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4445152,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dsc_0006_0.jpg?itok=UbwiUHS6"}}},"media_ids":["70143"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cleancitiesatlanta.net\/index.php\/grants-a-projects\/atlanta-ev","title":"Atlanta\u0027s EV Readiness"},{"url":"https:\/\/community.bus.emory.edu\/program\/atlantacars\/Pages\/home.aspx","title":"About the EV Case Competition"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/29078431","title":"Video of the Presentation by the Solar Jackets"},{"url":"http:\/\/SolarJackets.gatech.edu\/","title":"Solar Jackets"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.atlantaga.gov\/mayor\/sustainability.aspx","title":"City of Atlanta Mayor\u0027s Office of Sustainability"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1850","name":"alternative energy"},{"id":"181","name":"alternative transportation"},{"id":"1134","name":"City of Atlanta"},{"id":"12819","name":"electric vehicles"},{"id":"247","name":"Emory"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"169384","name":"solar jackets"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.shaw@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Shaw\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003ECommunications and Marketing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}