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World’s Fastest SUV vs. Gas SUV — Road Trip Time & Cost Comparison

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We recently had the extreme pleasure, bucket list quality, of traveling from Tampa Bay, Florida, to Austin, Texas, to report on the Tesla Giga Texas Cyber Rodeo grand opening celebration for CleanTechnica. The frosting on the trip was driving to Austin in our new Tesla Model X Plaid delivered on Valentine’s Day.

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Tesla expands with new 35,000-square-foot building near Giga Texas

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Tesla is expanding its presence in Texas as it snapped up a building located in Hutto, located about 25 miles north of its Gigafactory in Austin. The 35,000-square-foot building has no known purpose as of right now, but Tesla did confirm to KVUE , an ABC affiliate out of Austin, that it did acquire the property.

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UT Austin team develops new family of high-capacity anode materials: Interdigitated Eutectic Alloys

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Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. By comparison, realized capacity in a graphite/copper composite anode is only ~ 150 mAh g -1.

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Benchmark Minerals: Europe’s EV gigafactory capacity pipeline to grow 6-fold to 789.2 GWh to 2030

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Giga-Berlin is on course to be Europe’s largest gigafactory by some way and the world’s second-largest lithium-ion battery plant behind its counterpart in Austin,Texas. For comparison, China is growing by 220% in the same period, while the US is forecast to grow its battery capacity by 575%.

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UT Austin team achieves best reported full-cell hybrid Li-air battery cycling with new ordered catalyst

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A team from the University of Texas at Austin led by Professor John Goodenough has achieved significantly enhanced activity and durability for the oxygen reduction reaction under alkaline conditions in a hybrid Li-Air battery using a new ordered Pd 3 Fe/C catalyst. Credit: ACS, Cui et al. Click to enlarge.

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Tesla analysts still confident in TSLA despite Giga Shanghai shutdown and supply chain challenges

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So Tesla deliveries have increased by about 60% compared to Q1 2021 — although it may not be a fair comparison since Model S and Model X production was paused at the time. “You know, Austin’s ramping, Berlin’s ramping. He was excited to see how Tesla’s Austin Gigafactory would contribute to the company.

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Eight Graphs that Explain Software Engineering Salaries in 2023

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The data they collect doesn’t allow for apples-to-apples comparisons, but I’ve read through both reports, pulled out data from past years to give the numbers some perspective when possible, and summarized it in eight charts. Hired, which considered a shorter list, puts Austin at number five. salaries up 19 percent and Charlotte, N.C.,

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