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NYIT studying electric cars' future on LI

Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith Jennifer Smith

Smith is a Long Island reporter who primarily covers the

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Green stripes mark off a stretch of parking lot at the New York Institute of Technology's Old Westbury campus where researchers have built a filling station without pumps, nozzles or gasoline.

It's a solar carport, topped by photovoltaic panels that over the course of a year can produce an average of 33 kilowatt hours of electricity per day. Each parking spot is engineered to supply a plug-in...

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