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GM makes its largest green energy purchase to date; 50 MW wind deal

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General Motors has made its largest renewable energy procurement to date, purchasing enough wind power to equal the electricity needs of 16 of its US facilities, including business offices in Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, a major assembly and stamping complex in Arlington, Texas, and 13 parts warehouses east of the Mississippi River.

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Linear Labs to begin mass production of high-torque M200 e-mobility motor in September

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million economic incentive deal with the City of Fort Worth. The Linear Labs motor—the Hunstable Electric Turbine (HET)—is an exterior permanent magnet circumferential flux 4-rotor machine. This is achieved by a smaller distributed electric powertrain with a combined quad-motor volume of just over four liters.

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UPS to invest $100M more in compressed natural gas, CNG vehicles and related infrastructure

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Taken together, all of our alternative fuel vehicles represent 6% of the more than 100,000 UPS global fleet, and have driven a 10% annual reduction in use of conventional fuel. —Mark Wallace, UPS senior vice president global engineering and sustainability. El Paso, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Kan.;

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Tesla’s Elon Musk gives Rivian invaluable advice on manufacturing

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave electric vehicle startup Rivian a bit of invaluable advice regarding manufacturing efforts that could help the company’s longevity. After reports of Rivian’s second U.S.-based “I’d recommend they get their first plant working,” Musk said on Twitter. What do you think?

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Schoolchildren didn’t have access to the Internet or reliable electric lighting for studying after dark. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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MP Materials has an ambitious US rare earth supply chain strategy to fuel EV innovation

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MP Materials aims to establish all three stages in the US. What’s more, the company is developing a facility in Fort Worth, Texas where it plans to manufacture alloys and magnets from Mountain Pass materials. Electric motors work on the principle of electromagnetic motion. And it has customers.

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Wallbox enters first phase of build-out for US EV charger plant; 500k units/year by 2025

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Wallbox, a leading provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions worldwide, has begun construction at its Arlington, Texas manufacturing facility, the company’s first US-based EV charger manufacturing facility. Between all facilities, Wallbox is expected to have a global production capacity of more than 1.1

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