Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

Texas Governor Rick Perry has awarded $2.75 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) to Terrabon for its work in biofuel technology development. Further, the project will demonstrate the commercial viability of the desalination technology that also reduces the capital and operating costs of water purification.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2022

General Motors and POSCO Chemical are working with the governments of Canada and Québec to build a new $400-million facility in Bécancour, Québec, to produce cathode active material (CAM) for GM’s Ultium batteries, which will power electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC HUMMER EV and Cadillac LYRIQ. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Last week, Elon Musk announced Tesla’s first involvement in a major housing development project in Austin, Texas. The project aims to build the first Tesla Solar neighborhood, making a sustainable residential community. After the Texas power crisis, many have supported the idea of switching to a renewable power grid.

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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2021

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has mentioned that he now lives in a ~$50K house at Starbase, Texas, where his private space company, SpaceX, is manufacturing its Starships. A 20×20 unit such as the one that Elon Musk owns is priced at only $50,000, less than the cost of a Model Y Long Range Dual Motor AWD. What do you think?

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Baua Electric

JUNE 4, 2024

For years, Tesla has tried to deploy its own and partnered insurance products in order to address the generally high insurance costs that its owners have to pay. Tesla believes that reducing those costs would help increase demand. However, the product has been controversial.

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EV Central

MARCH 1, 2023

The long-hyped circa-$40,000 Tesla Model 2 didn’t break cover at the company’s investor day held at the Texas Gigafactory this morning. The new platform will also enable a radically different manufacturing process designed to dramatically reduce the cost of production.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Tesla’s Fremont, Texas, and Shanghai factories all had stoppages relatively soon after the automaker made the announcement, and drone operators at each factory updated others on what was going on, even as things slowed down at each of the plants. It also plans to implement other strategies to decrease costs on other vehicles.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

A cost of ownership calculator and other tools can help you know how much you’ll save By Cameron Wolf, ZappyRide. Airlines , public transit , and regular commuters are feeling the strain of rising fuel costs, which have increased dramatically since August 2021. The cost of gas over the first 5 years of the car @ $3.58/gal

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2022

Panasonic will invest as much as $705 million on new production facilities in Japan as it plans to build Tesla’s new 4680 battery cell as early as 2023, new reports said. As batteries are the most expensive part of an electric vehicle, controlling the cost of their production or sourcing widely affects the cost of the car altogether.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 1, 2023

The company is currently building a graphite processing plant in Kellyton, Alabama. Fast forward to today and Westwater is building a graphite plant in Alabama, and people are eager to buy our capacity. Charged : Tell us about the processing plant Westwater is building in rural Alabama.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. The goal is to keep the lights on at a low cost by utilizing an efficient mix of power plants. The regions are distributed across three separate and largely isolated networks, called “ interconnections ”–Eastern, Western, and most of Texas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2020

Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. Our new, ambitious EV vision builds on this work as we continue to lead the clean energy transition and enhance the customer experience while keeping bills low.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In one of the company’s Texas grant applications that happened to contain project costs, Tesla indicated that its Supercharger stalls cost as little as $42,000 per connector. Across competitors in the United States and the European Union, the estimated costs per connector are $100,000 to $250,000, according to Bloomberg. .

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Baua Electric

APRIL 16, 2024

Riding the AI wave, Elon Musk is betting Tesla’s business on its self-driving effort, including Robotaxi, at the cost of other programs critical to its core business. At the same time, the CEO is threatening not to build AI products at Tesla. As we previously reported, Cybertruck was a mistake for Tesla.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Grants help UC-Berkeley, the University of Texas, and others The grant program funds activities designed to support and strengthen chapters. The first grants have been awarded to fund programs including chapter-building and visibility activities, mentoring, and alumni engagement events. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

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Teslarati

MARCH 8, 2022

The new road will directly connect the Port of Brownsville to Highway 4, effectively offering SpaceX a direct line of access between Starbase – a South Texas Starship factory and launch site – and the Gulf of Mexico. While it’s difficult to find praise for taking almost two years to construct a more or less straight 1.9-mile-long

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Additionally, SpaceX developed Falcon booster reusability and Falcon Heavy entirely on its own at a total cost of at least $1-2 billion. spacecraft, apparently making it hard or impossible for Falcon 9 to cost-effectively launch them. Those satellites are several times larger than V1.0

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The FAA says that it will take at least another month to complete a crucial environmental review of orbital Starship launches from SpaceX’s South Texas Starbase facilities. The FAA continues its Programmatic Environmental Assessment for the proposed @SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy project in Boca Chica, Texas. Learn more at [link].

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Based on recent reports, it appears that Tesla may be looking to build another vehicle production facility in Shanghai — and it could be starting sooner than expected. . The cost of the project is yet to be announced. . It appears that Tesla might have already decided on the location of its next big factory.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Carbon Capture Projects: Lowering Absorption Process Uncertainty, Risks, and Costs by Predicting and Controlling Amine Degradation (LAUNCH). This will help resolve one of the main drawbacks of chemical solvent capture systems that leads to increased costs. DOE Funding: $487,000; Non-DOE funding: $4,587,612; Total Value: $5,074,612.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Energy-system models that marry engineering, physics, economics, and policy constraints and concerns allow us to test assumptions, explore actions, and build intuitions about how those systems work. The best we can do is to build tools that allow us to explore possible futures.” There’s just so much that is contingent and unknowable.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Friday was the first deadline in two weeks in which the UAW didn’t order additional workers to walk out of facilities operated by the automakers after the union threatened to target a GM plant in Arlington, Texas that builds the Cadillac Escalade. The UAW held a rally in Chicago on Saturday, which you can watch via YouTube below.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

The Supply Agreement has two phases: In the first phase, HCS will purchase isooctane produced at Gevo’s demonstration hydrocarbon plant located in Silsbee, Texas. Gevo currently operates a biorefinery in Silsbee, Texas, in collaboration with South Hampton Resources Inc.,

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Teslarati

MAY 13, 2022

Getting cars from outside of India into the country doubles the cost of the vehicle on most occasions due to import duties. It would only be able to do this by building them in Fremont, California, Austin, Texas, Brandenburg, Germany, or Shanghai, China , and then shipping them to India. Tesla needed to test demand for its cars.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

California offers an array of incentive programs to help fleets defray the higher upfront costs of electric trucks. Truckers, truck manufacturers, fuel retailers, real estate developers and EV infrastructure startups are all building heavy-duty EV charging hubs at strategic locations. Schneider will soon open a 4.8-megawatt

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Baua Electric

MAY 2, 2023

Nether qualify for the tax incentives as a result of their costs exceed limits imposed via the IRS. Analysts say Tesla is feeling the squeeze from easing call for for its automobiles and rising manufacturing capability from untouched crops in Texas and Germany that opened ultimate pace. As automobile provide progressed within the U.S.,

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Teslarati

MAY 23, 2022

In the last few years, SpaceX has effectively built a massive factory and launch pad for the largest rocket ever built (Starship) out of an empty lot in South Texas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy provides the energy that powers millions of homes and businesses across eight Western and Midwestern states: Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. Costs for purchasing an eligible Level 2 charger can also be included.

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Teslarati

MARCH 1, 2023

Drew Baglino noted that Giga Texas already makes dry electrode batteries. 18:48 CST – Barclays asks to what extent the cost strategies outlined today differ by region. Elon mentions a cathode refining facility just down the road from Giga Texas as well. 17:47 CST – Tesla Electric is rolling out in Texas too!

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Teslarati

JANUARY 26, 2022

Despite various projects such as the active buildout of Giga Berlin and Gigafactory Texas , as well as the additional expansions of Giga Shanghai and the Fremont Factory, Tesla still ended the fourth quarter with a strong war chest, with quarter-end cash and cash equivalents increasing sequentially by $1.5 billion to $17.6 billion in Q4 2021.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

The feasibility study is expected to determine the most likely pipeline route, the estimated costs of constructing such a pipeline, and review regulatory, legal and permitting requirements. Denbury’s preliminary internal estimates suggest this would be a 500 to 700 mile pipeline system with a preliminary cost estimate of approximately $1.0

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The company is increasing line speed at its Kentucky Truck Plant to build more Lincoln Navigator and Ford Expedition SUVs, boosting production targets approximately 25% since last fall when the SUVs hit the market. The plant builds the Ford Expedition, Lincoln Navigator and Ford Super Duty. Kentucky Truck Plant opened in 1969.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The vertical turbine design will allow for distributed onsite generation near buildings. The project is expected to reduce the cost of energy from midsize turbines. Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas). Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas). Northern Power Systems (Barre, Vermont).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2012

IH 2 technology has the capability to produce gasoline at a cost of less than $2.00 GTI has licensed the IH 2 technology to CRI Catalyst Company (CRI), in Houston, Texas. —Martin Linck. Based on assessments by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., per gallon, Linck said.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2015

Siluria Technologies held a grand opening event heralding the successful start-up of its demonstration plant located in La Porte, Texas. Siluria’s highly efficient catalytic process is more scalable, more environmentally friendly and more cost-effective in many settings than current methods of production. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2011

The technology could help offset the cost of geologic carbon storage. We may be able to bring down its costs by generating electricity on the side. Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin will analyze the environmental impacts of the process over its entire life span.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

The proposed idea is to build a small scale process simulator, with both machinery and software components, which mimics aspects of a smart manufacturing system for educational purposes. Texas A&M Experimental Station. Penn State University.

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