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Tesla has started sending invites to its 2022 annual shareholder’s meeting

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Tesla is allowing both virtual and limited in-person attendance at the meeting. Last month, Tesla announced a random drawing for in-person invites to the shareholder meeting. She kindly hosted me in Austin. “It’s super exciting to drive past Tesla Giga Texas in Austin. . My friend, Gail Alfar, was one of them.

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Tesla’s invite-only Giga Fest at Gigafactory Texas draws concerns from local citizens

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“We’re currently working through that invite list, and the invites have not been sent out yet but they will be pretty soon,” the person said. ” Paul stated he represented the Environmental Justice Organization based in East Austin. “It’s a small item, right,” Paul said.

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Daimlers car-sharing service car2go expands to Canada

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First launched in Ulm, Germany three years ago, car2go was successfully rolled out a year later in North America in Austin, Texas. To date, a total of more than 35,000 customers have joined the car2go program in Ulm and Austin. A newly created company, car2go Canada Ltd.,

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. Remote sensing technologies to tackle earth science problems In 1980 Crawford joined the mechanical engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin, staying for 25 years.

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Tesla Van, revised Cybertruck, Tesla Boat — Here’s what could be coming

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” While a Tesla Van might be a great idea for some personal applications, this would be something that would undoubtedly be used as a commercial vehicle. Visitors would be able to float down the Colorado River to downtown Austin.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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As a child, Zadeh was surrounded by governesses and tutors, while as a young adult, he had a personal servant. Austin, Texas. was the first to apply fuzzy theory to a consumer product, a shower head that controlled water temperature, in 1987. His career goal, for as long as he can remember, was to be an engineering professor.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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University of Texas at Austin. Eugene Water & Electric Board. EERE and APPA will provide information to increase education and awareness of the benefit of EVs to public power utilities and local officials, and develop a community action plan focused on smaller communities with fewer than 200,000 electric customers. Tesla Motors, Inc.

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