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EIA: US crude oil production will increase to new records in 2023 and 2024

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million b/d set in 2019. Despite declining crude oil prices, EIA expects the WTI price will remain high enough to support crude oil production growth, especially in the Permian, where data from the Dallas Fed Energy Survey indicate that average breakeven prices range from $50/b to $54/b. million barrels per day (b/d) in 2023 and 12.8

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Fort Worth buying four New Flyer electric buses for new zero-emission route

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Trinity Metro’s first Xcelsior CHARGE was unveiled in Fort Worth during a May 2019 event, which previewed The Dash service. Trinity Metro is a regional transportation system providing public transportation in Fort Worth, Texas, and other cities in Tarrant County, part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.

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Amazon begins deploying its Rivian electric delivery vehicles

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Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Researchers demonstrate effective silicon-based thermoelectric generators

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A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. He turned to Lee and UT Dallas to further study what the devices could do. Described in a paper in the journal Nature Electronics , these TEGs exhibit a high specific power generation capacity (up to 29??

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Transit and transportation agencies form national Automated Bus Consortium; initial purchase of 75-100 automated buses

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AECOM will host an industry forum in Detroit, Michigan, on 12 September 2019, to create and facilitate opportunities for Consortium members to meet technology companies and bus manufacturers to discuss the development of program specifications for automated buses for each region’s pilot project.

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EIA: natural gas-fired reciprocating engines are being deployed more to balance renewables

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Source: US Energy Information Administration, Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, January 2019. The largest of these facilities is the Denton Energy Center, which came online in July 2018 outside Dallas, Texas, and it has twelve 18.8 Other includes landfill gas, biomass, and other gas.

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Amazon announces milestones within Rivian EDV fleet

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The fleet has now grown to over 3,000 vehicles, tripling in size and helping Amazon reach the sustainability goals that it outlined in 2019. including Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Amazon However, by Christmas , Rivian EDVs were delivering Amazon packages in 100 U.S.

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