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Nevada launches “Clean Cars Nevada” effort; adopting California LEV and ZEV

Green Car Congress

Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced the “ Clean Cars Nevada ” initiative, which will evaluate the adoption of new regulations to provide Nevadans with more choices for low and zero emission electric passenger cars and trucks at dealerships throughout the state beginning in 2024.

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Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be

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Nevada utility NV Energy’s largest battery energy storage system sits on a former coal-fired power plant site and will save customers a lot of money. The new BESS is on the site of the former 557-megawatt (MW) coal-fired Reid Gardner Generating Station, which was demolished in 2019. Energy Vault will maintain the system.

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Lithium-ion battery recycler ABTC expands operations and capacity with newly purchased facility

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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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Benchmark Mineral Intelligence: global battery gigafactory pipeline tops 300; China dominates

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gigawatt hours (GWh) of lithium ion battery capacity in the pipeline as assessed in Benchmark Mineral Inelligence’s May 2022 Gigafactory Assessment—a 68% year-on-year increase. Joint ventures between automakers and battery companies have been central to this growth.

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Redwood Materials breaks ground on $3.5B South Carolina battery plant

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billion battery plant in South Carolina, set to be the JB Straubel-led company’s second. Redwood Materials broke ground on the South Carolina battery materials facility last week, as announced by Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations Morgan Crapps in a LinkedIn post. “And we’re off!

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Tesla Gigafactory Nevada gets another batch of rooftop solar panels

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Tesla Gigafactory Nevada might not be attracting as much attention as its newer siblings like Giga Texas and Giga Berlin, but the massive battery factory is still undergoing improvements. This is evidenced by satellite images from late March, which still showed a notably lower volume of solar panels on Giga Nevada’s roof. .

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Tesla Semi pair spotted near Giga Nevada, and one is showing off its frunk

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In a recent sighting, two units of the Tesla Semi were spotted together near Gigafactory Nevada, and one of them even had its frunk opened. . The images were reportedly taken at the Tesla Semi facility near the Giga Nevada complex. BREAKING: 2 brand new Tesla Semi's spotted at Giga Nevada Semi factory.

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