CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 18, 2021

The Tesla CEO revealed this week that initial factory construction costs are only the beginning to its overall financial picture,

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Professor John Goodenough, the inventor of the lithium-ion battery, and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have identified a new cathode material made of the nontoxic and inexpensive mineral eldfellite (NaFe(SO 4 ) 2 ), presenting a significant advancement in the quest for a commercially viable sodium-ion battery. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

AMD has installed three Coulomb-manufactured ChargePoint electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at its Austin “Lone Star” campus for employees, and plans to install additional stations at its Sunnyvale campus in spring 2011.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

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. It is a simple, low-cost approach that can be applied to a broad range of alloy systems with various working ions such as Li, Na, or Mg.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2020

SK Innovation will develop next-generation battery technology with University of Texas at Austin Professor John Goodenough, who was awarded a 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his foundational work on the lithium-ion battery. Current lithium-ion chemistry is not likely to overcome 800 Wh/L energy density.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2020

With the switch to 5G costing global carriers a 60% to 300% increase in infrastructure costs, GenXComm’s technology has the potential to save 5G providers billions of dollars, reducing the cost of implementing 5G by up to 80%.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We knew beforehand that Tesla was planning to create thousands of jobs in Austin building the gigafactory. There are some new updates out for Tesla Giga Texas. Reuters reports that the figure is about 10,000 low-skilled jobs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a novel electrode for lithium-sulfur batteries that improves cyclic stability and rate capability significantly. In a paper published in the ACS journal Nano Letters , they report using polypyrrole-MnO 2 coaxial nanotubes to encapsulate sulfur.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2015

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have used a combination of metabolic engineering and directed evolution to develop a new strain of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica featuring significantly enhanced lipids production that could lead to a more efficient biofuel production process.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. The UT Austin technique is aimed at the latter. But Yu and his colleagues at UT Austin developed theirs with arid atmospheres in mind.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 2, 2023

This proved, once again, to be a major theme during the much-anticipated Tesla Investor Day event in Austin, Texas, yesterday. According to the Financial Times, “Tesla executives said a wide range of efficiency and cost improvements has put […]

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have developed an optimization framework for hybrid-electric and plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs and PHEVs) including fuel consumption, motor efficiency, and battery capacity and lifetime. Shaltout et al. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

OnStar is testing a smartphone app that tells Chevrolet Volt owners how much it costs to charge their battery and compares their Volt’s energy use with the total energy consumed in their home by day, month or year. Based on electricity rates, the data is broken down to show the cost of both total energy usage and Volt charging energy use.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 4, 2024

As can be seen in the Monroney sticker, the Cybertruck Dual Motor AWD Foundation Series costs a total of $101,985, including the vehicle’s destination and regulatory doc fee. The sticker, however, did not provide a breakdown of the Cybertruck’s Foundation Series package , which costs an extra $20,000.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

GTI focuses its R&D efforts on the generation of clean hydrogen using hydrocarbon fuels that incorporate carbon capture and/or carbon sequestration in a cost-effective manner. GTI hydrogen fueling site at UT Austin.

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MAY 28, 2020

EV battery costs have declined significantly over the past ten years, from more than $1,000 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) to less than $200/kWh. Increasing cell energy is one way to decrease cost even further, as a higher specific energy value will result in fewer materials needed for the same total battery energy.

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DECEMBER 19, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, led by Prof. The ability to use commercially available bulk particles could significantly decrease the manufacturing cost of Li?S Arumugam Manthiram, have found that using phosphorus pentasulfide (P 2 S 5 ) as an electrolyte additive. S batteries with a Li S cathode.

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2024

Tesla has launched wraps for the Model 3, Model Y and Cybertruck at an additional shop location, this time outside of California On Monday, Tesla announced that it has launched wrap services for the Model 3, Model Y and Cybertruck at its Collision Austin South body shop in Texas, in addition to those already offering the service in California.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

These conductivity-enhanced materials have the potential to lower the costs and impacts of adding renewables and electric cars to the grid, maximize next-generation energy storage technologies, and support electrification for energy-intensive sectors.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

The selected projects include: Geothermix, LLC (Austin, TX) Geothermix will harvest waste heat from existing oil and gas wells in Texas to generate commercial quantities of geothermal electricity. ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX).

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Teslarati

MARCH 23, 2024

The new wrap colors each cost $6,500, and they include forest green, satin crimson red, iridescent purple, tactical green, satin dark grey, and copper tinted clear. Any of these purchase prices also includes the cost of both materials and installation, and Tesla also notes that it will provide buyers with a loaner vehicle during installation.

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JUNE 5, 2015

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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Teslarati

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Tesla Giga Texas Belt Buckle features the same design released when Elon Musk announced that the Austin-based Gigafactory was the company’s new headquarters in the USA. Tesla formally moves headquarters to Austin, TX. It costs $50 and is made with medical-grade stainless steel. The Cyberwhistle was released a few weeks ago.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Tesla says the district, which recently started a multi-campus school police department for the community in Austin, Texas, could spend just $640 per year to charge the electric vehicles (EVs), while it estimates current spending of around $2,000 per year in gas for traditional police vehicles.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 19, 2024

Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin can easily cost $600 or more, and prices at other venues are just as steep. Formula One has always been a rich person’s sport, but it has become equally as exclusive for fans trying to get tickets. Three-day passes for the U.S.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Projects selected under this funding opportunity announcement will reduce both the costs of critical materials and the environmental impacts of production. DOE funding: $5,577,738; cost share: $5,925,475; Total costs: $11,503,213. DOE funding: $2,272,112; costs share: $2,272,112; Total costs: $4,544,224.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

As domestic demand increases rapidly, there is an urgent need to develop safe, secure, domestic, and cost-competitive sources of lithium. The Phase 1 semifinalists identified an impactful idea or solution to drive down costs of lithium extraction and, ultimately, help develop environmentally friendly, domestic sources of lithium.

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JULY 24, 2020

Researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Texas at Austin, with colleagues at the US Army Research Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have developed a thick cobalt-free high voltage spinel (LiNi 0.5 O 4 (LNMO)) cathode material with high areal capacity. —Li et al. (a)

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

By analyzing trillions of anonymous data points from hundreds of millions of connected devices, INRIX Research identified the current routes with the greatest market potential in the Atlanta, Austin, Boston and San Francisco metropolitan areas. The benefits of VTOL will accrue in the the near-term to long-distance commuters from city centers.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

million square feet, the Taylor facility would be over four times the size of the company’s Austin plant, which was affected by the state’s power issues earlier this year. The chips used in Tesla’s FSD computer are produced at Samsung’s Austin site. Samsung’s upcoming $17 billion chip plant is remarkable.

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JUNE 4, 2023

SPARC uses high-temperature superconducting magnet technology to demonstrate that fusion can work as a commercial power source for the first time in history at a compact and cost-effective scale. Austin, TX). IFE Pilot Plant with a Low-Cost, High-Energy Excimer Driver and the HYLIFE Concept. Focused Energy Inc.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Beyond PNNL, collaborators continuing from Phase 1 are Brookhaven National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Binghamton University, the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of Washington.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

SpaceX recently filed for a massive building in Bastrop County, Texas which is just east of Austin. The estimated cost of the project is $43 million and the building is expected to be completed by July 2023. We don’t know.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

On August 9, the City of Austin officially approved the project, which has no set capacity as of yet but is listed at 53.27 The City of Austin currently has the site plan listed as “Pending.” ” Credit: City of Austin. Austin approved the project on August 9. acres in size.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

ChargeNow DC Fast also includes two years of no-cost charging for qualifying BMW i3 drivers in those areas. Program participants can enjoy unlimited no-cost 30-minute DC Fast Combo charging and no-cost 1 hour Level 2 charging for their BMW i3, at EVgo Stations, for 24 months from date of enrollment at chargenow.com/us.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

MUSIC researchers will look at manufacturing techniques using new materials as a means of lowering battery costs. And they’ll examine how the introduction of ceramic ion conductors impacts degradation in lithium metal, sodium metal and other solid state configurations.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 17, 2023

The San Francisco Bay Area hasn’t lost its dominant position at the top of the tech salary charts, discounting, however, local cost of living differences. Charlotte, in fact, edged out Austin for number nine in Dice’s rankings, and every cost-of-living calculator I checked considers Charlotte to be a significantly cheaper place to live.

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