据Virginia烟草委员会成员Danny Marshall透露，该委员会为 两个南部光伏项目总共拨款1000万美元。
Danny Marshall表示，委员会于7月25日举行会议并批准了该地区的两个特别项目：为Institute for Advanced Learning and Research 的光伏电池生产工厂拨款500万美元，另外500万美则拨给了设计弗吉尼亚州国际赛道新型轮胎设计项目。
在研究所的建设项目只要利用屋顶上安装的电池板收集的太阳能进行光伏发电。
马歇尔还表示，通用汽车，Goodyear和Virginia Tech都将加入第二个项目新轮胎的研究，希望新设计的轮胎实现每加仑油跑的里程数增加3——5英里。
Two Southside projects have received funding from the Virginia Tobacco Commission totaling $10 million, according to Delegate Danny Marshall, who has a seat on the commission.
Marshall said the commission met Thursday and approved two special projects for the region: $5 million for photovoltaic cell manufacturing at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research and $5 million for a project that entails designing a new type of tire at Virginia International Raceway.
The project at the Institute will entail building small photovoltaic cells that will be grouped on panels and used on roofs to collect solar power, Marshall said.
Marshall said General Motors, Goodyear and Virginia Tech will join forces at VIR to produce a new tire design that will increase a vehicle’s mileage by between three and five miles per gallon.
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