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Redwood Materials opens up new facility just miles from Tesla Giga Nevada

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Straubel, has opened up a new manufacturing facility in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Park, just miles from Tesla’s Giga Nevada production facility. Redwood’s new facility is just miles from Tesla Giga Nevada, where the automaker has a joint venture with Panasonic to produce electric vehicle batteries.

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California announces $17.5M for public electric vehicle charging in 13 rural counties

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Eligible counties include Butte, El Dorado, Imperial, Kings, Merced, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Solano, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tulare and Yolo. Since December 2017, CALeVIP has issued more than $138.4 Incentives available through the new Inland Communities Incentive Project will cover up to 75% of EV charging equipment costs.

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2017 Ford Focus Electric, Faraday Future, VW Efficiency 'Deviations': Today's Car News

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Today, the 2017 Ford Focus will have a 100-mile range when it arrives next year, Faraday Future will locate its electric-car factory in Nevada, and Volkswagen says an issue with European efficiency figures only amounts to "slight deviations" on certain models. The updated 2017 Ford Focus Electric will get a.

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Tesla unveils Model 3; delivery by end of 2017; already 115,000 reservations placed

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Musk said that the Model 3 will start at $35,000; achieve 5-Star ratings in every safety category; accelerate from 0-60 mph in less than six seconds; and have at least a 215-mile (346 km) EPA range rating. Musk said that those were minimum numbers, and that Tesla hoped to exceed them. Deliveries will begin by the end of next year.

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BP and Johnson Matthey license Fischer-Tropsch technology to waste-to-biofuels producer Fulcrum BioEnergy for biojet

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Fulcrum will use the BP and JM technology in its new Sierra BioFuels Plant located in Storey County, Nevada, approximately 20 miles east of Reno. Working together, BP and JM won both the Research Project Award and the Oil and Gas Award at the prestigious IChemE Awards in November 2017 for their work on FT technology.

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Jay Leno towed a Tesla Semi with a Tesla Semi

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Manufacturing of the Tesla Semi is underway following the truck’s unveiling in 2017, with the primary examples dropped at shoppers past due endmost future. Priestley claims Tesla is the use of the vans to haul batteries from Nevada to California on the very same schedules as diesel vans.

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UPS adding 200 more series hybrid delivery trucks

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will be deployed beginning in January 2017 starting in Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and, possibly in other states as well. The trucks, manufactured by Workhorse Group, Inc.,

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