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Tesla will build Nevada’s largest Supercharging Station at Primm Valley Resort

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Tesla will build Nevada’s largest Supercharging Station at the Primm Valley Resort just south of the Las Vegas Strip, according to Clark County permits. It will be the largest Supercharger station in Nevada. Tesla has several large-scale Supercharger locations in Nevada, especially in Las Vegas. Credit: Tesla.

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GM, POSCO Future M announce 2nd phase of CAM production in N America; adding pCAM

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pCAM is a specifically engineered combination of processed raw materials necessary to produce CAM, a key battery material representing about 40% of the cost of a battery cell. We’re building higher levels of vertical integration, driving expanded investment and helping create jobs across North America. EV Components Sept.

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Tesla and Panasonic begin production of Li-ion cells at Gigafactory

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Tesla and Panasonic have begun mass production of high-performance cylindrical “2170” (21mm diameter, 70mm height) lithium-ion battery cells at the Gigafactory in Nevada. The current structure—representing 30% of the final building—has a footprint of 1.9 million square feet housing 4.9

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3 winners of DOE’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” Challenge: hydrogen-assisted lean-burn engines, graphene for Li-air and -sulfur batteries, and titanium process

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The three winning companies are: Umpqua Energy , a startup company based in Medford, Oregon, is using an Argonne National Laboratory technology to develop a system that allows a gasoline engine to operate in an extreme lean burn mode in order to increase gasoline mileage.

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The Race for the Next-Gen Space Station

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On any list of humanity’s greatest engineering achievements, the ISS almost always ranks near the top. Nanoracks/Lockheed Martin/Voyager Space Orbital Reef, First Stages Illustration of the first components of Blue Origin and Sierra Nevada’s proposed Orbital Reef space station in orbit. Blue Origin/Sierra Nevada SpaceX’s “Station”?

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

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During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. By contrast, at 25 miles per $3 gallon of gasoline, those miles cost 12 cents each. However, it costs more to build an acre of rooftop PV.

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DOE Selects 8 Projects to Advance Technologies for the Co-Production of Power and Hydrogen, Fuels or Chemicals from Coal-Biomass Feedstocks

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GTI, in partnership with Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, both in Reno, Nev.; VPI will develop optimally engineered systems for manufacturing coal-biomass briquettes/pellets that are ideally suited for transportation, storage, and co-feeding fixed- and fluidized-bed gasifiers. Clean Coal Briquette Inc.

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