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New Mexico to enact advanced Clean Car & Clean Truck rules

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New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that the state will move to adopt the Advanced Clean Cars and Advanced Clean Trucks rules, which will set annual targets for the sale of new zero emission cars and trucks in New Mexico over time.

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New Mexico adopts Clean Cars Rule

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The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) and the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board (AQCB) have each adopted the Clean Car Rule after a joint public hearing. —New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Cabinet Secretary James Kenney.

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Tesla sidesteps New Mexico ban by building service center in tribal land

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Tesla has effectively sidestepped a New Mexico law that was barring the company from operating a service center for EV owners in the state. For the longest time, Tesla owners in New Mexico had to drive out-of-state to centers in Colorado or Arizona just to get their vehicles serviced.

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Second Tesla center in New Mexico to open on Santa Ana Pueblo

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The investment that Tesla is making in workforce development and training as part of this project will be extremely valuable in helping our strategic efforts to create an economy that is powered by STEAM [Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Manufacturing].” Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)

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A new factory in New Mexico will build $750M of wind turbine towers

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Dallas-based infrastructure manufacturer Arcosa (NYSE: ACA) said today that it’s received $750 million worth of wind turbine tower orders, so it’s building a new factory where it can make them. more… The post A new factory in New Mexico will build $750M of wind turbine towers appeared first on Electrek.

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Tesla starts construction of 2nd New Mexico store in American Indian land

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Recent reports have indicated that Tesla is working with American Indian organizations to bypass a ban on direct-to-consumer automobile sales in New Mexico. The new Tesla facility was announced by tribal and company officials Friday. Tesla expects to offer a good number of jobs for its New Mexico facility.

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Daimler Truck subsidiary Torc Robotics opens Technology and Development Center in Stuttgart

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In 2019, Daimler Truck invested a majority share in Torc, the first autonomous vehicle (AV) company to enter an integrated partnership with a truck original equipment manufacturer (OEM). Torc’s testing facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, allows daily, multi-shift runs of Torc’s autonomous test trucks on highways in New Mexico and Texas.