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Tesla building permits reveal unannounced ‘Lithium Lab’

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Tesla has applied for a set of building permits regarding a previously unannounced “Lithium Lab,” which is likely an upcoming R&D facility. It’s no secret that Tesla has been diving head first into developing more dependable lithium supplies, even going as far as opening its own lithium refinery in Southern Texas.

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SpaceX is building launch pad tanks out of Starship parts and that’s a big deal

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SpaceX has begun installing the first of numerous propellant storage tanks at its first orbital South Texas launch facilities – a mostly ordinary and expected step made extraordinary by the fact that those tanks will be built out of Starship parts. Instead, SpaceX has decided to design and build its own propellant storage tanks.

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The $10,000 BYD Seagull EV is scaring the U.S. auto industry

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Credit: BYD At the same time, many automakers including Tesla are racing to build their next-generation, mass-market EVs, set to first be produced in Texas as soon as 2025 , then later at an upcoming factory in Mexico , and eventually at a yet-unannounced third location. auto market anytime soon , some U.S.

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Tesla’s entry into India won’t include duty waivers, gov’t official says

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Tesla pondering 500k annual EV production in India: report For years, Tesla and the Indian Government have sparred to come to terms that would see the electric automaker build a factory in the country. It was a game of chicken that neither entity was willing to budge on, and it eventually led to stalled negotiations.

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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. Recent efforts to improve lithium-ion battery electrodes have focused on building new nanomaterials atom by atom. —Kreder et al.

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Tesla is redefining the “Made in China” moniker with Giga Shanghai: report

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” In a way, such labels were quite fair considering that China had focused its exports in the past on low-quality vehicles that were sold dirt-cheap in developing countries. This has allowed Tesla to optimize its operations in the Fremont Factory, while accelerating the start of vehicle production in other sites like Gigafactory Texas.

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Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born

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She worked for a year with Donald Olson, a Texas State University astronomer and physics professor who used topographical, meteorological and astrological studies to calculate the precise date and time of its creation. The buildings once were considered ugly. Visitors can take a guided tour of a model apartment in a Perret building.)