The issue focused primarily on vehicle emission standards and traffic safety laws with proposals from Michigan and Connecticut already approved by the city's transportation committee. Two other projects are also in the works to replace outdated lanes with new ones by June 2018.


From the start, the Navy Yard-based Tech Experience and Technology Center at the Navy Yard in 2014 and the West Point Research Institute of Technology and Aviation in 2015 tried to apply research and technology in creating hybrid systems to their fleet vehicles. That led to the study and invention