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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Tesla Giga Texas is raring to go, as shown by what appears to be Model Y production vehicles waiting for transport beside the factory. Based on photos shared by drone operator Jeff Roberts , Tesla Giga Texas has a little over 100 Model Y production vehicles parked on site. Production Model Ys ready for transport at Giga Texas!

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AUGUST 15, 2021

A massive IDRA shipment was delivered to Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas site recently. The arrival of another IDRA shipment suggests that Giga Texas may be setting up a new Giga Press soon, possibly for a new production line. The singular IDRA box was recently spotted in a drone video of Giga Texas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2023

Dow and X-Energy Reactor Company, a developer of advanced nuclear reactors and fuel technology for clean energy generation, announced that Dow has selected its UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for its proposed advanced small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear project. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For the third time in two months, SpaceX has begun installing Raptor engines on its first orbital-class Starship prototype – hopefully for good. In no uncertain terms, Starship 20’s (S20) path to what could be its last Raptor installations has been about as windy and mysterious as they come.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 26, 2021

Back in March, reports from Texas emerged stating that a brand new Model Y had caught fire and took down a garage as a result. The news spread in social media quickly, with Dallas Texas TV even noting that the blaze, which “everybody saw all over Dallas,” was caused by a Tesla “basically exploding.”

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APRIL 14, 2021

Recent reports have indicated that Taiwan’s Pegatron has selected a site in El Paso, Texas, for an upcoming production facility that would provide parts for American electric car maker Tesla. The post Tesla supplier Pegatron is building a parts plant in Texas appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Tesla applied for a permit to extend Gigafactory Texas with a building to produce cathodes for battery production. The Giga Texas cathode plant will likely contribute to Tesla’s 4680 production plans in Austin. . Baglino noted that Tesla was building 4680 structural packs every day, which were assembled into vehicles in Texas.

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Teslarati

JULY 20, 2022

Tesla aims to start ramping 4680 cell production at Gigafactory Texas by the end of Q3 2022. Tesla Giga Texas already produced its first 4680 cells. Tesla has started “commissioning its first car sets of cells through the end of the line,” noted Drew Baglino, Tesla’s Senior VP of Powertrain and Energy Engineering.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Tesla Model Y vehicles were spotted leaving Giga Texas on car carriers recently. The sighting hints that Tesla’s goal to deliver Giga Texas-made Model Ys to customers by the end of the first quarter is going according to plan. Tesla plans to deliver Giga Texas Model Ys once the vehicle receives final certification.

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Teslarati

APRIL 20, 2021

SpaceX has installed at least two of three new upgraded Raptors on Starship serial number 15 (SN15) ahead of a triple-engine static fire scheduled as early as Wednesday, April 21st. Time will tell if the many upgrades on Starship SN15 and its Raptor engines will combine to produce a more reliable and more successful vehicle.

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Teslarati

JULY 5, 2021

In his latest round of SpaceX-related tweets, CEO Elon Musk says that the company has plans to boost Raptor’s performance by at least 15% and the number of those engines installed on Starship by 50%. So possibly 9 engines for some Starships? It’s one possibility — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 4, 2021.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Canada-based FLO announced the installation of the first wave of workplace electric vehicle (EV) charging stations as part of a multi-year agreement with General Motors (GM), whereby FLO provides AC Level 2 and direct current (DC) fast chargers for GM to be installed on their premises in the United States.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 19, 2021

SpaceX’s first orbital-class Starship prototype has survived the first of several expected Raptor tests, kicking off an engine test campaign that could mark a number of new milestones. Starship S20 had two engines during its first test. Zeus sniffing around after the test too.

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Teslarati

MARCH 11, 2024

Tesla is making construction progress on its upcoming lithium refinery in Texas, as shown in photos taken by one drone pilot this week. Longtime Tesla construction observer Joe Tegtmeyer shared photos of Tesla’s forthcoming lithium plant near Corpus Christi, Texas, on Monday. Tesla proposes $3.8

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

In May, the 82 nd Texas Legislature passed and the Governor Rick Perry signed House Bill 1353 , which took effect on 1 September. This legislation allows the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to create a 75-mph speed limit on sections of the highway system found to be reasonable and safe through a speed study. In 2002, Gov.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Airbus and Arconic, a global technology, engineering and advanced manufacturing company, have achieved a 3D printing first—the installation of a 3D printed titanium bracket on a series production Airbus commercial aircraft, the A350 XWB.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The following teams selected for the REMEDY program will work to directly address the more than 50,000 engines, 300,000 flares, and 250 mine shafts that are producing methane emissions. Natural Gas Engines. This would simultaneously reduce methane emissions and improve engine efficiency. Selection amount: $1,500,000).

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Teslarati

JUNE 21, 2021

Situated a stone’s throw from the Gulf of Mexico on the windy South Texas coast, the process of carefully mating two halves of what amounts to a several hundred ton skyscraper will be far harder than it might seem. The post SpaceX installs first parts of tower meant to catch Starship boosters appeared first on TESLARATI.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

In the space of two days, SpaceX has outfitted Starship’s first orbital-class Super Heavy booster with four car-sized grid fins, stacked the rocket to its full height, and begun the process of installing up to 29 Raptor engines. A day and a half later, all four fins were installed. Look at those grid fins!

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 6, 2021

SpaceX appears to have delivered hardware that will eventually become part of the first 33-engine Super Heavy booster to its South Texas ‘Starbase’ factory. Most importantly, it bumps the number of Raptor Center engine hardpoints to 13. Starship SN10’s three-engine thrust puck, September 2020.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 22, 2021

SpaceX first installed Starship S20 on one of two suborbital launch and test stands more than two months ago. Two days later, put the Starship through a complex cryogenic proof test , loading supercool liquid nitrogen instead of ambient-temperature gas and simulating the thrust of six Raptor engines with hydraulic rams.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 4, 2023

For the spin prime test, the rocket was loaded with super-chilled liquid oxygen and flowed through the Raptor engines’ turbopumps that simulate firing the engines just one step short of actually lighting them. It was likely all 33 engines. However, it is unconfirmed at this moment. Questions or comments?

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Teslarati

APRIL 29, 2024

This was hinted at in a comment from a Cybertruck Lead Engineer on social media platform X. I think 1 – 3 are covered in the Spring Release (2024.14), which is already deployed to Wave 1 and should be going wide after that group of installs is verified,” the Cybertruck Lead Engineer wrote in his post on X. “I

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AUGUST 12, 2021

A Tesla Model X was involved in a fiery accident last night in Tarrytown, near Austin, Texas. Fire Chief Thaier Smith said that some fires fueled by a battery pack could take 30 to 40 times the water to extinguish compared to a combustion engine fire. The driver was a minor and was under the influence. Department of Transportation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2014

The newly formed Scuderi Split-Cycle (SSC) Engine Consortium is having its first meeting at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas on 23 January. The air-hybrid configuration adds a compressed air storage tank to the engine. The SSC Consortium—a two-year project—has two initial goals, said Scuderi.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 7, 2024

On Friday, Drew Baglino, Tesla Senior VP of Powertrain and Energy Engineering, posted a photo on X from the Kapolei Energy Storage (KES) project site in Oahu, noting that the 185 MW Megapack project had successfully reached its Commercial Operation Date (COD).

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JUNE 13, 2023

Following the integrated test flight of Ship 24 and Booster 7, which at engine ignition created a “rock tornado” and excavated a significant amount of cement and dirt from underneath the launch mount, SpaceX has been hard at work repairing the launch mount and is now installing a water deluge system. Questions or comments?

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Baua Electric

APRIL 10, 2024

Located at the Bay Colony Town Center in League City, Texas, this EVgo station is the first of several prefabricated stations slated to open this year. EVgo expects its prefabrication process to reduce station construction costs by an average of 15% at suitable sites, and to reduce installation timelines by as much as 50%.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Tesla is ultimately planning to build the Cybertruck in Austin at Gigafactory Texas. Tesla applied to build a battery and cathode manufacturing building at Gigafactory Texas earlier this year, and while the project has been started, it likely will not be ready for the Cybertruck’s projected launch in mid-2023.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

The selected projects include: Geothermix, LLC (Austin, TX) Geothermix will harvest waste heat from existing oil and gas wells in Texas to generate commercial quantities of geothermal electricity. ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). Transitional Energy (Aurora, CO). University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK).

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Reuters had calculated that Giga Texas was only producing about a 10th of the 4680 battery cells needed to power at least 24,000 Cybertrucks a year. And we have a fourth in commissioning, and four more will be installed starting in Q3 this year,” noted the Tesla executive. Tesla breaks ground on $3.6B

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Instead of installing a home generator or battery backup, the truck can be used to power a typical-size home up to three days in the event if a power outage. This really hit home during the Texas power crisis last February, which left millions in the cold. —Patrick Soderborg, Ford e-powertrain systems engineer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2021

As more states adopt measures similar to California, which has implemented a ban on internal combustion engines sold in the state starting in 2030, the EV market will grow exponentially in the coming years. is an IT asset management and electronics recycling company with facilities in Illinois, Texas, and Arizona.

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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. It could be installed very quickly as well. . — World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) March 4, 2021. Hey @elonmusk , @_BOXABL wants to help you build Starbase.

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JULY 21, 2022

One of them asked if Giga Texas was already producing its own 4680 batteries, seeing as it is the factory producing Model Ys equipped with structural packs. Tesla Senior Vice President, Powertrain and Energy Engineering Andrew Baglino addressed the inquiry. According to the Tesla executive, Tesla is making progress on its 4680 project.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2014

Nat G is a manufacturer-certified installer for natural gas engine systems from Altech Eco and also for Landi Renzo, the world’s leading manufacturer of natural gas vehicle systems. Nat G works with customers and dealers to find the best vehicle configuration to achieve their goals of increased function and lower cost of ownership.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Ship 25 is powered by 6 Raptor engines (3 sea level and 3 vacuum), and Booster 9 is powered by 33 Raptor engines. Booster 9 features many upgrades over the last booster to take flight, including better engine shielding and a switch from hydraulic thrust vector controls to electric TVC. T+ 2 minutes and 39 seconds, Staging.

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