Teslarati
JULY 13, 2021
Last week, Elon Musk announced Tesla’s first involvement in a major housing development project in Austin, Texas. Easton Park is a 2,400-acre community southwest of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, as per the Austin Business Journal. The Tesla Solar neighborhood was provisionally named SunHouse at Easton Park.
Plugs and Cars
DECEMBER 15, 2006
Given the stink of political corruption in Texas, one can be forgiven for thinking only foul winds blow. But whatever their source, the wind really blows in Texas. Thanks in part to Bush's support of a nascent wind industry during his tenure in Austin, much of that wind is being turned into electricity.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
The integrated design, development, and production of highly complex systems, leveraging software, can speed ideas from the lab into commercial production, reduce costs, and shorten production lifecycles. In the wind energy industry, doubling the length of a turbine blade can quadruple the amount of electricity generated.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Here’s How We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth Geoengineering—altering the planet to mitigate the worst effects of climate change—is an idea that has taken on new currency of late. The basic idea is to add particles of sea salt to the atmosphere to brighten clouds and cool the planet.
Cars That Think
MARCH 26, 2022
Although the idea of replacing a hunk of iron with a lightweight, ultrathin, easy-to-make, long-lasting PCB was attractive from the outset, it didn’t gain widespread adoption in its earliest applications inside lawn equipment and wind turbines a little over a decade ago. But in 2012 Boulder Wind Power put a PCB stator in a.
Cars That Think
JULY 9, 2022
His choice of subject for his master’s thesis, though, marked one of the first times he would sail against the prevailing technical winds. He had heard from a colleague that Zadeh had been toying with the idea of leaving Columbia. Austin, Texas. At the time, though, he had no clear idea how this would work.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 29, 2021
Tesla hopes to open its first greenfield car factory in Austin by year end.) Lucid's wind-tunnel testing isn't yet independently confirmed. I got my first taste of the Air in the Sonoran Desert, a few hours from Lucid's $700 million factory in Casa Grande, the first from-the-ground-up EV plant to open in North America.
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