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Electric vehicles gaining ground in Ohio despite infrastructure gaps
Charging an electrical automobile in central Ohio is comparatively simple. Columbus has a whole bunch of charging stations sprinkled across the metropolis, however journey farther afield and charging choices rapidly vanish.
Longtime Clintonville resident Ruth Milligan discovered that out the laborious method when, in August, she drove her daughter to varsity at Michigan State College within the household’s Volkswagen ID.4.
“I had finished all kinds of mapping and planning and shipped some stuff prematurely,” Milligan stated.
A lot of her planning revolved round how a lot the automobile was in a position to maintain, she defined. However weight wasn’t a difficulty a lot as drag.
With baggage on the roof and a motorbike strapped to the again, wind resistance was depleting her automobile’s battery quicker than anticipated. She realized they weren’t going to make it to their deliberate cease for the night time in Toledo.
“We discovered ourselves at a Mexican restaurant in the midst of Findlay, Ohio saying, ‘How are we going to think about attending to East Lansing?’ and the very first thing we needed to do was think about not utilizing this automobile to get there,” she stated.
Milligan’s story illustrates the inequitable distribution of charging stations throughout the state.
The U.S. Division of Power reveals greater than 1,400 station areas in Ohio, clustered primarily close to city facilities.
However state officers say the highway forward is more and more gas-free, and Ohio must prepare.
“Auto producers have signaled and indicated that they’re going to shift to electrified autos fairly rapidly within the subsequent 5 to 10 years,” stated Preeti Choudhary, govt director of DriveOhio.
DriveOhio not too long ago started accepting proposals for firms to construct and function EV fast-charging stations all through the state.
“These quick chargers might cost a battery and an electrical automobile battery in 20 to 40 minutes versus Degree Two chargers that might take anyplace from 4 to eight hours to obtain the identical cost. So that they have considerably increased energy,” she stated.
Proper now, Ohio solely has 13 fast-charging stations that meet nationwide requirements corresponding to being a mile from an interstate exit and having at the least 4 charging ports.
Choudhary stated plans name for Ohio so as to add 30 extra areas by 2025, positioned each 50 miles alongside interstates and state routes.
“We wish to make it possible for everybody has dependable, secure entry to quick chargers,” she stated.
EVs proceed to realize reputation within the state. It isn’t simply early adopters shopping for EVs, however an rising variety of gearheads as properly, stated Zach Doran, president of the Ohio Car Sellers Affiliation.
“The efficiency in these vehicles and vehicles is unbelievable,” Doran stated. “They’re tremendous quick. They’ve a ton of torque. They’re enjoyable to drive. And so I believe people are getting extra keen to take a look at them,” he stated.
Nonetheless, some are skeptical that Ohio is able to transition to electrical autos.
Brian Rothenberg has eight years of expertise with public relations within the automotive trade.
“On the one hand, you must put together for the long run, and these are the way forward for autos. However alternatively, it is one of many uncommon situations the place the demand has to begin assembly the expectations in some unspecified time in the future,” Rothenberg stated.
Battery life wants to enhance for EVs to essentially turn out to be viable, Rothenberg stated. He additionally worries that, even with state funding, there will not be sufficient chargers in some areas.
“In the event you stay in an residence, otherwise you’re within the internal metropolis, the place are you going to plug in your automobile? How lengthy will it take to cost? These are all issues that must be labored on,” he stated.
He is additionally involved about auto employees making a good wage.
“There’s over 240 components that go right into a flamable engine, and all these jobs making these components have so much much less components to make when you are going to a battery-operated automobile. So will these jobs pay the identical method that auto jobs are?” he stated.
Nonetheless, state and trade leaders say Ohio is able to make the change to EVs.
“[Ohio auto dealers] are very a lot engaged on this course of. They’re all shopping for particular instruments and tools and doing coaching with their technicians to get able to promote and repair these autos and reply customers’ questions,” Doran stated.
EV proprietor Ruth Milligan stated hers is a cautionary story, however one she hopes doesn’t discourage any would-be EV patrons.
“We’ll proceed to take this automobile to Michigan, however and not using a roof prime or a motorbike rack,” she stated.
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Midday: 4-6-7-5
Evening: 8-9-5-9
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Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at 12:29 p.m. and 7:29 p.m., except Saturday evening.
Midday: 6-8-2-3-8
Evening: 9-9-8-2-8
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Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at approximately 7:05 p.m.
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After beating Tennessee, Ohio State will finally get its rematch with Oregon
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State players had been thinking about a rematch with Oregon long before the Buckeyes crushed Tennessee in a first-round playoff game.
Their first chance to avenge the Oct. 12 loss to the Ducks looked to be the Big Ten championship game, but that slipped away when the Buckeyes lost to Michigan and gave up their spot in the title game.
Now, by virtue of Saturday night’s 42-17 win over Tennessee, the Buckeyes will see the Ducks again in a quarterfinal game on a grand stage — the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day.
“It’s going to be a heck of an opportunity for all of us,” Ohio State quarterback Will Howard said. “I think we’ve all been looking forward to this one, another crack at these guys. The way the last one ended didn’t sit right with me.”
In the first game, the Buckeyes led twice in the second half but couldn’t hold it. They were driving in the final minute. After a questionable interference penalty on freshman receiver Jeremiah Smith, Howard scrambled out of the pocket to extend a play and slid as time ran out, ending the 32-31 shootout on a mental error.
It would be the closest game of the season for top-seeded Oregon (13-0).
“We’re looking forward to the opportunity because it was not a great game for us,” Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles said. “And I know, quite frankly, the guys got a little pissed off. They used that game as motivation. So, I’m sure they’re looking forward to another opportunity.”
The Ohio State defense — now statistically the best in the nation — allowed Heisman Trophy finalist Dillon Gabriel and the Ducks to pile up 496 yards.
“You get to watch yourself play, and watch the mistakes that you’ve made, and you see how they attack you,” Ohio State linebacker Cody Simon said. “But also, there’s a lot of football played in between that. They’ve changed. We’ve changed, and we’re just, we’re going to look at what we need to do, and trust the game plan the coaches have, and we’ll go and tackle them.”
Nearly everything was working right inside the frigid Horseshow on Saturday night, the first December college football game in the history of the 102-year-old stadium.
Howard threw two touchdown passes to Smith and compiled 311 passing yards — his highest total since the Oregon game. TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon Judkins rushed for two touchdowns apiece. The defense sacked Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava four times and limited him to 104 passing yards, his lowest total of the season.
Oregon coach Dan Lanning recognized the Buckeyes’ ability to be explosive.
“That’s an elite football that we just played,” Lanning said after the October game. “They’re really, really talented. They don’t have weaknesses.”
Other quarterfinal games include No. 6 seed Penn State against third-seeded Boise State on Dec. 31, and on Jan. 1 it will be No. 5 Texas against No. 4 Arizona State, and No. 7 Notre Dame versus No. 2 Georgia.
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Tennessee overwhelmed in humbling Playoff loss at Ohio State: ‘It stings’
COLUMBUS, Ohio — By the time the beating was finished, most of the thousands of Tennessee fans who flooded into Ohio Stadium were gone.
At least two remained — one in a Peyton Manning jersey and another in a coonskin cap — and hovered over the tunnel as the stone-faced Vols walked into the beginning of the end of their season.
They offered encouragement and some high fives in contrast to the derisive “S-E-C” chant coming from the Ohio State student section as the Buckeyes celebrated a cherished Rose Bowl berth that eluded Tennessee.
Ohio State 42, Tennessee 17.
The Vols’ 21-0 hole after the game’s first 12 minutes was too deep to escape. Ohio State’s talent at edge rusher and receiver overwhelmed Tennessee.
Cutting the lead to 11 at halftime offered a brief glimmer of hope until Ohio State forced a punt on the second half’s first possession and followed up with a 65-yard touchdown drive to slam the door for good.
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“Everybody was just disappointed,” Tennessee coach Josh Heupel said.
The offensive line struggled to provide quarterback Nico Iamaleava with clean pockets. Tennessee’s receivers couldn’t find space in the secondary, forcing Iamaleava to hold onto the ball and try to create an offense built from scraps of quarterback scrambles.
The secondary struggled to cover Ohio State’s stellar receivers and even when they did, freshman phenom Jeremiah Smith and NFL-bound senior Emeka Egbuka hauled in contested catches anyway.
“They made some plays. That’s gonna happen against a good team,” Heupel said. “What we didn’t do is come back and find a way to get on the right side of it. That’s defensively, offensively, it’s everybody.”
Nico Iamaleava on his 20 carries: “I didn’t expect to run that many times.”
Josh Heupel said some of those were him scrambling.
— David Ubben (@davidubben) December 22, 2024
Injuries, Ohio State’s defense and the early struggles forced Tennessee to try to morph on the fly into a team it isn’t.
Dylan Sampson, the SEC’s Offensive Player of the Year, suffered a hamstring injury late in the regular-season finale against Vanderbilt and aggravated the injury early on Saturday. Tennessee knew entering the game Sampson would be limited, but he was barely available and couldn’t continue after briefly returning in the second half.
He carried the ball at least 19 times in every SEC game this season. He carried the ball twice on Saturday.
Iamaleava hadn’t run the ball more than a dozen times all season. Between called runs and scrambles, he had to carry the ball 20 times. The Vols’ longest passing play of the day was just 21 yards. Iamaleava finished with a season-low 104 passing yards despite throwing the ball 31 times, just the third time this season he’s topped 30 attempts in a game.
“It sucks to go out that way,” Iamaleava said. “That’s not who we are, man.”
He averaged 8.3 yards per attempt during the regular season, good for 21st nationally. He averaged 3.3 yards per attempt on Saturday.
“When we’re not creating explosives, whether it’s poor calls or execution, it puts you in a phone booth,” offensive coordinator Joey Halzle said. “We didn’t stretch them enough. We didn’t force them to respect us going by them enough to make them change up what they were doing. When you let them play comfortable and play in their game plan and don’t make them change, it creates long nights like what happened tonight.”
The defense gave up 311 yards through the air to Will Howard, a quarterback who had just one 300-yard game this season. Tennessee had surrendered 300 passing yards in just one other game this year, to Carson Beck and Georgia.
The Vols lost by 25 in a game in which they won the turnover battle, 1-0.
“Their skill on both sides of the ball was as good as you’ll see,” Heupel said.
Defensive coordinator Tim Banks said the Buckeyes offense didn’t do much the Vols hadn’t prepared for on film. They just did it well and consistently won 1-on-1 matchups.
A breakthrough season crescendoed to the program’s first College Football Playoff bid and arguably the biggest game for the program in at least two decades.
Tennessee fans flooded into Ohio Stadium by the thousands. Instead of witnessing another breakthrough, they were forced to shiver through a breakdown on the sport’s biggest stage and a game that was barely competitive, just like the three first-round games that preceded it.
The only matchup of Big Ten and SEC teams in Round 1 produced the most lopsided result of the opening weekend of the expanded Playoff, with the Big Ten team’s players parading around their home field with roses between their teeth.
Tennessee has looked the part of a good team all season, but losses to Georgia and Ohio State laid bare the reality that the Vols have yet to ascend into the sport’s upper crust and aren’t ready to chase the kinds of titles that have eluded the program since 1998.
Ohio State’s offensive game plan showed aggression and a desire to stretch the field early, making it clear that Tennessee would not be facing the same Buckeyes team that lost a brawl at the line of scrimmage against Michigan three weeks ago.
The Vols came up against one of the nation’s most talented teams. For 60 minutes, the Buckeyes looked the part, flexing at Tennessee’s expense.
“It stings losing like that,” linebacker Will Brooks said.
It was tough to swallow for Heupel, who used the word “disappointed” 10 times in his 14 minutes with reporters after the loss. Multiple times, he was left shaking his head.
He saw the same thing that the thousands of fans in orange witnessed, too.
“Disappointed in our performance for our fans,” Heupel said. “People that have watched us, it wasn’t our best football tonight.”
But it’s the football Tennessee will be left to ponder as it enters an offseason that started earlier than anyone in orange hoped. As Heupel addressed his team, he began by using that word, acknowledging the disappointment of Tennessee’s first trip to the Playoff before pointing to the future after closing a stretch of 30 wins in three seasons.
“Everybody better let that soak in,” Heupel said, “and it’s gotta propel you to whatever’s next.”
(Photo of Nico Iamaleava: Saul Young / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
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