Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

The Texas Department of Transportation is going to create a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) Task Force to become a central point for CAV advancement in Texas. The task force is designed to be a one-stop resource for information and coordination on all ongoing CAV projects, investments and initiatives in Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2021

General Motors and Shell, through its wholly owned subsidiary MP2 Energy, LLC, are collaborating to provide comprehensive energy solutions programs to GM’s customers and supply chain partners, including fixed-rate home energy plans backed by 100% renewable energy resources. of EV charging.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 23, 2023

A recent press release from the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) has revealed that Tesla will be providing Virtual Power Plant (VPP) services to the state’s grid. The program is part of the Aggregate Distributed Energy Resource (ADER) project that the PUCT pushed last year. It’s a win-win for Texas.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 17, 2023

Tesla is planning to enter the rental space with a new, small pilot program in Texas, according to job postings. The job responsibility states that the person selected will help “lead in the launch of the Tesla Rental Program in Texas” and will “support the team on launching a small pilot in all Texas collision sites.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Texas A&M University researchers have developed a conceptual model to identify systematically the potential health impacts of self-driving vehicles. They identified 32 transportation-related risk factors that affected health and concluded that 17 could negatively impact public health, while eight could have a positive impact. 2020.102457.

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Energy Institute at HAAS

MARCH 15, 2021

The Texas crisis need not be the death of dynamic pricing. The Texas energy disaster last month will yield many important lessons for assuring resource adequacy in a time of increasingly … Continue Reading Texas, Hedg’Em.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Apache Corporation has confirmed the discovery of a significant new resource play—the “Alpine High”—in the southern portion of the Delaware Basin, primarily in Reeves County, Texas. 2,000 to more than 3,000 future drilling locations have been identified in the Woodford and Barnett formations alone.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2020

Researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a cobalt-free high-energy lithium-ion battery, eliminating the cobalt and opening the door to reducing the costs of producing batteries while boosting performance in some ways. The findings appeared in the journal Advanced Materials.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Texas State Legislature is considering levying a tax against EV owners to fund road upkeep and improvement, and EV owners are on board. However, that reduced cost is now being challenged by a tax proposed by Texas State Legislature members that would either tax EV owners per mile driven or yearly with a flat fee.

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Electrek

JUNE 15, 2021

Texas has been hit by a heatwave, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has asked residents to reduce electricity use until Friday because demand is up, but power supply is down. more… The post Texas is sweltering, and majority of power plants down produce natural gas appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

New research from Rice University and Texas Tech University has found that drivers often fail to spot hazards missed by automated vehicles, and it only gets worse the longer drivers ride in them. —Eric Greenlee, assistant professor of psychological sciences at Texas Tech and lead author. —Grenlee et al. DeLucia, David C.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2017

The land area over the Permian Basin covers more than 75,000 square miles in 43 counties of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. However, more than half of the rigs that have been added in the Permian are concentrated in just five counties: Reeves, Loving, Midland, and Martin counties in Texas and Lea County in New Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2020

Researchers at the University of Texas have discovered that introducing tellurium (Te) into a Li-Sulfur system as a cathode additive significantly improves the reversibility of Li plating/stripping by forming a tellurized and sulfide-rich solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer on the Li surface. Nanda et al. 2020.03.020.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 18, 2022

A new Tesla job posting on its website shows that Tesla has plans to launch a retail electricity business in Texas. The position is based in Austin and will support the launch and growth of Tesla as the new electricity retailer in the Texas market. You can also reach me on Twitter @JohnnaCrider1.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2022

Researchers from Ames Laboratory and Texas A&M University have trained a machine-learning (ML) model to assess the stability of new rare-earth compounds. The framework they developed builds on current state-of-the-art methods for experimenting with compounds and understanding chemical instabilities. 2022.117759.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Austin, Texas — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better agenda, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2023

In addition to implementing the new lines and capital equipment, the investment has created the opportunity to better streamline the Durham plant, enabling better flow of materials and resources across its footprint.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2017

Cities and regions across Texas are partnering with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Transportation Research (CTR), and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to form the Texas Automated Vehicle (AV) Proving Ground Partnership.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

Exxon Mobil Corporation will more than double its Permian Basin resource to 6 billion barrels of oil equivalent through the acquisition of companies owned by the Bass family of Fort Worth, Texas, with an estimated resource of 3.4 billion barrels of resource, of which 75 percent is liquids.

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EV Box

MARCH 4, 2021

The Texas electricity crisis that left more than four million people without power for days amid below-freezing temperatures is forcing the state to rethink its reliance on traditional fossil energy resources like coal, nuclear, and especially natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

While NERC’s risk scenario analysis shows adequate resources and energy for most of North America, Texas, New England, MISO and parts of the West are at an “elevated risk” of energy emergencies. for this summer as a result of adding new wind, solar, and battery resources. ERCOT’s anticipated reserve margin increased from 12.9%

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Teslarati

JULY 12, 2022

Tesla is giving 50% off discounts at select Superchargers in Texas during off-peak hours. I suspect this is to help the Texas grid cope with the intense heat wave affecting the Deep South. The discounted Supercharging rates will encourage Tesla owners to charge their vehicles during off-peak times which will help the Texas grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2022

The portfolio consists of dozens of under-explored, mineralized brownfield projects, backed by detailed databases of historic uranium exploration and development programs, thus greatly enhancing the potential for resource expansion. Positions UEC, a US corporation headquartered in Texas, as the largest American uranium mining company.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2015

Texas is famous the world over for two things on a massive scale: oil and droughts. Not only does Texas have the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford shale, but it also has the Gulf of Mexico and its massive oil deposits and endless gallons of seawater that are now economically treatable thanks to next generation water processing technology.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin portion of Texas’ Permian Basin province contains an estimated mean of 20 billion barrels of oil, 16 trillion cubic feet of associated natural gas, and 1.6 This estimate is for continuous (unconventional) oil, and consists of undiscovered, technically recoverable resources.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Shell and The University of Texas at Austin signed a five-year agreement to invest $7.5 The new Shell-UT Program on Unconventional Resources will be managed by the university’s Bureau of Economic Geology with participation across the campus, including geoscience, engineering, economics, business, environmental and regulatory affairs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Energy demand rose from the 2020 lows that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing up prices and making more US resources economically viable. The 12-month, first-of-the-month average spot price for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil at Cushing, Oklahoma increased by 67% from $39.66 per barrel in 2020 to $66.26 MMBtu in 2021.

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Teslarati

JULY 7, 2022

The Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) is moving forward with its consideration of distributed energy resource pilot. Energy Markets Policy Lead, Arushi Sharma Frank, shared a thread on Twitter about the upcoming July 11 Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) workshop. Tesla’s U.S. Expand to see more info!

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2021

Texas Mineral Resources Corp. The Texas Mineral Resources consortium objective is to install a self-contained, modular and portable pilot plant at a Jeddo Coal Pennsylvania site, capable of producing 1-3 metric tons of rare earth oxides derived from coal waste material from Pennsylvania anthracite coal.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2012

BP Biofuels and Texas AgriLife Research, part of The Texas A&M University System, have signed a three-year agreement to develop and commercialize cellulosic feedstocks for the production of advanced biofuels. —Tom Campbell, technology vice president at BP Biofuels.

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Teslarati

APRIL 18, 2024

As per a former Tesla VP, the EV maker may pivot to state funding or even use its own resources to build a Tesla Semi Megacharger route. The initiative is aimed at creating a “hydrogen corridor from southern California to Texas.”

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2014

In a paper in the Journal of Power Sources , Yu-Sheng Su and Arumugam Manthiram from the University of Texas report that a composite cathode material of titanium disulfide (TiS 2 ) and sulfur delivered 252 mAh g ?1 1 more than that of pristine sulfur cathode (1334 mAh g ?1 1 vs. 1082 mAh g ?1 —Su and Manthiram. 2014.07.099.

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EV Box

MARCH 4, 2021

The Texas electricity crisis that left more than four million people without power for days amid below-freezing temperatures is forcing the state to rethink its reliance on traditional fossil energy resources like coal, nuclear, and especially natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2023

The network of charging sites will be built on critical freight routes along the east and west coasts and in Texas. Dedicated software and hardware teams are working on developing a custom, commercial vehicle reservation platform to provide fleet managers, dispatchers and drivers with an industry-leading customer experience.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The US Department of the Interior will offer more than 21 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2013

Pioneer Natural Resources Company is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with operations in the United States. Securities, Inc. and Mayer Brown LLP acted as financial advisor and legal adviser to Sinochem respectively on the transaction.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,499,999. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.

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