Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

On Thursday, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and Elon Musk, Chairman and CEO of Tesla Motors, confirmed what had been widely leaked the day before: that Nevada and Tesla had reached an agreement—subject to legislative review and approval—that will result in the state being the site for the Tesla Gigafactory. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2023

The demand for domestically produced and sustainably sourced battery metals has grown at a near insatiable rate over recent years, as the domestic manufacturing capacity of lithium-ion batteries has grown exponentially from less than 50 GWh/year to now more than 700 GWh/year of operational and announced capacity.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 28, 2024

Located outside of Charleston, the plant will be used to recycle, refine, and manufacture anode and cathode components, not unlike the company’s Nevada materials location. Earlier this month, the company highlighted that it’s building a cathode plant in Nevada that will support a capacity of over one million EVs per year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2022

Shanghai Metals Market data pointed to a supply deficit of 1,361 tonnes in July, swinging from the supply surplus in the prior month as the re-opening of the Chinese economy and cash subsidies for new energy vehicles lifted car manufacturer’s demand. Source: Trading Economics. Earlier post.). Source: Statista.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

We start today with a report that Nevada will be the site for Tesla Motors'' first gigafactory. On the internal-combustion front, we''ve also got the first fuel-economy ratings for the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon mid-size pickup trucks, and a drive report of the 2014 MINI Cooper three-cylinder.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Both companies will additionally partner with American Battery Technology Company (ABTC), a lithium-ion battery recycling company in Reno, Nevada, and TODA Advanced Materials Inc. Nanotech will then use these materials again in its battery cell production—overall, a circular economy in North America.

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Teslarati

MAY 3, 2023

Now, the company is also starting up a lithium research division, which will operate at an all-new research and development facility nicknamed “Lithium Lab” in Nevada. Being found so close to Tesla’s Giga Nevada facility could indicate the new R&D location is focusing on battery tech.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

Redwood Materials will work directly with dealers and Volkswagen facilities to identify end-of-life batteries and materials, and then safely package and transport them to their Nevada facilities. Each year, Redwood already recycles more than 6 GWh of lithium-ion batteries, the equivalent of 60,000 EV batteries, in Nevada.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

UPS announced an update to 125 Workhorse E-GEN series hybrid electric delivery trucks that improve fuel economy as part of the company’s broader Rolling Laboratory approach. The smaller engine will improve fuel economy, however. A compact, quiet-running 650cc 2-cylinder engine replaces the previous 2.4L

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Tesla marks a before and after in the economic development of the State,” said Iván Rivas, State Secretary of Economy. “For For example, the Nevada gigafactory generated an economic impact 28 times greater than public investment, while in California, 120 jobs were created in the supply chain for every 100 Tesla jobs.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 23, 2024

” Local Impact Tesla Gigafactory Mexico is expected to create a substantial number of jobs for the local economy, according to Jorge A. I am worried about the high interest rate environment that we’re in.” Moreno, a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León’s (UANL) Faculty of Economics.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 25, 2023

If all goes according to plan, the funding would put the company’s valuation at nearly $5 billion ahead of the company’s plans to construct a new factory in Nevada — though it isn’t yet a done […] Battery recycling company and Tesla partner Redwood Materials is currently in discussion to raise as much as $700 million in funding.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 18, 2023

Lithium Americas has started construction on its Thacker Pass lithium project located in Nevada. The lithium market is jumping. Below are 7 notable lithium stories we haven’t written about before today. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) provided […]

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The governors of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to create a unified regional electric vehicle plan to allow electric vehicles to recharge and travel easily along the 5,000 miles of freeways in the western region. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The report is a comprehensive source of 2021 mineral data for the world and includes information on the domestic industry structure, government programs, tariffs, world production and five-year salient statistics for nonfuel mineral commodities that are important to the US economy and national security.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 23, 2022

Earlier this month, Redwood also announced that Panasonic would begin including its copper foil that is produced from recycled materials in new battery production at Giga Nevada. […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 29, 2023

He also slew underground monsters that were eating people in Nevada with trickery. […] If you were an alien, someone from Earth could tell you about the things Kevin Bacon has done on the big screen, and you’d think he was some sort of superhero. He once brought a town together through the power of dance.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 22, 2016

Panasonic is currently Tesla's sole supplier of battery cells for its electric cars, and a partner in the carmaker's massive lithium-ion cell "gigafactory" in Nevada.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Equipped with lithium ion batteries and a range-extender engine, these trucks will deliver significant fuel economy equivalency gains, approximately four times the fuel economy of a gasoline powered vehicle. The vehicles have the same 650cc 2-cylinder engine and E-GEN chassis as the 125 vehicles UPS announced earlier this year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

Greyrock Energy, a developer of a gas-to-liquids (GTL) process that produces synthetic diesel, will participate with Tsinghua University of Beijing, China and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) of Reno, Nevada to quantify the positive impact on air quality from the use of synthetic diesel fuels as compared with petroleum derived diesel fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Tesla Motors unveiled the first locations in its Supercharger network, which will allow the Model S to travel long distances with ultra fast charging throughout California, parts of Nevada and Arizona. Most people who begin a road trip at 9:00 a.m. Tesla will also begin installing Superchargers in Europe and Asia in the second half of 2013.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2017

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 output will first be used in Tesla’s energy storage products and then in the Model 3.

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Teslarati

JULY 28, 2021

After opening up a new facility near Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada earlier this year, Redwood plans to expand its recycling efforts to make batteries more Earth-friendly and cost-effective, a plan that Straubel outlined. Credit: Redwood Materials.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

A study by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory found that increasing a vehicle’s speed from 60 to 70 mph results in an average 14% decrease in fuel economy. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2015

liter MidRange, factory-built, dedicated natural gas engine ( earlier post ), to the Type C School bus market at the North American School Bus Show – STN Expo Conference and Trade Show in Reno, Nevada. greenhouse gas (GHG) and fuel-economy regulations. Cummins Westport Inc. is introducing its new 2016 ISB6.7 The ISB6.7 The ISB6.7

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Although the United States has large reserves of lithium in all forms, in January 2022 the only operational US supply of lithium is a brine facility in Nevada using lithium evaporation ponds.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2015

for the front truck, based on industry-standard SAE J1321 Type II fuel economy testing conducted by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency. The System has been shown to reduce fuel consumption by 10% for the rear truck and 4.5% Demonstrations and fleet pilot deployments in additional states will be held later this year.

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Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Clean Cars 4 All is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment — particularly in disadvantaged communities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

PM emissions from current vehicles in Beijing could be reduced by approximately 19% by simply blending 20% synthetic diesel with currently available diesel, according to a new study by Tsinghua University, the Desert Research Institute in Nevada and Greyrock Energy, a developer of gas-to-liquids technology.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Global demand for critical minerals needed to decarbonize the nation’s economy is expected to increase by 400-600% over the next several decades and the US is increasingly dependent on foreign sources, some adversarial, for many of the processed versions of these minerals. University of Nevada, Reno.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

The Japanese ministry of economy, trade and industry (METI) and the ministry of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism (MLIT) initiated the platooning test, which is part of the Japanese government’s Future Strategy 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2020

A program like this also continues to move us toward a carbon free economy by enabling higher levels of renewable generation to be integrated with the grid. This first-of-a-kind program will help address peak energy demands, minimize impacts to the grid and support the expansion of EV charging in our community.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Autonomous driving has potential for improving road safety, traffic flow and fuel economy. Nevada, Florida and California have all taken legislative steps to support the development of autonomous driving. To make this happen it is important to avoid a patchwork of various state regulations. —Peter Mertens.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2015

Secretary Vilsack has recognized the bio-based economy as one of the four pillars of rural economic growth, in addition to production agriculture, local and regional food systems, and conservation and natural resources. The announcement is USDA’s latest effort to increase renewable fuel use in the United States.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

We aim to be climate neutral by 2040, and fully electric by 2030, and embracing a circular economy,” Gustafsson said. The packs will then be transferred to its facility in Northern Nevada to be recycled back into domestic cell production. “At Volvo cars, sustainability is as important as safety.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 6, 2023

In our case it was as, traveling through four states, California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah, having the extended battery made the trip worry-free. Dana Point to Barstow; Barstow to Las Vegas, Nevada; and Las Vegas to St. This $7,000 option is a worthy consideration if road trips are in your plans. George, Utah. Approximate Cost: $20.64

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

USDA has funded 8 additional biorefineries that are using feedstocks such as agriculture residue, woody biomass, municipal solid waste, and algae in states including Michigan, Oregon, Florida, Nevada, and New Mexico.

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