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Teslarati
AUGUST 4, 2022
Tesla CEO Elon Musk dismissed rumors that he would build a private airport in Austin, Texas, today, after reports circulated last week. Musk was rumored to be building an airport for personal use somewhere east of Austin, near the town of Bastrop.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Capital Metro in Austin, Texas has approved a plan to purchase 26 40-foot Proterra ZX5 Max electric transit buses, featuring a total of more than 17 megawatt hours of battery storage capacity.
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Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Austin, Texas transit operator Capital Metro Transportation Authority has awarded NFI subsidiary New Flyer of America Inc. CapMetro is Austin’s public transportation provider, delivering more than 20 million annual trips through bus, paratransit, and commuter rail services. a contract for 26 battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE NG forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses and four battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE NG sixty-foot heavy-duty transit buses (34 equivalent units or EUs).
Teslarati
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Elon Musk announced that Austin, Texas has formally become the site of the company’s main headquarters. “I’m excited to announce that we’ll be moving our headquarters to Austin, Texas,” Elon Musk said to much applause at the latest Annual Shareholders Meeting.
Electrek
JULY 23, 2021
Zero-emission technology company REE Automotive has named Austin, Texas, the new home to its US headquarters. more… The post REE automotive to open US headquarters in Austin, Texas appeared first on Electrek.
Teslarati
MARCH 17, 2022
The arrival of Tesla in Texas and the influx of companies moving into the state will likely trigger an increase in the number of people residing in cities like Austin. The comments of Austin’s transit leaders bode well for Elon Musk’s future projects in the state.
Teslarati
AUGUST 8, 2021
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company (TBC) has started discussing potential tunneling projects in Austin and San Antonio with city officials. The post The Boring Company proposes tunnels in Austin and San Antonio appeared first on TESLARATI.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Tesla has already created 5,000 new jobs in Austin, Texas, so far in 2021, according to a report from the Austin Chamber of Commerce. The data shows that Tesla is the company to pledge and create the most jobs in 2021 in Austin.
Teslarati
APRIL 18, 2021
Elon Musk’s Neuralink posted five jobs based in Austin, Texas on its website. The jobs posts located in Austin supports rumors that Elon Musk plans to build Neuralink facilities in the state, similar to his other companies.
Green Car Reports
JUNE 19, 2020
Tesla is leaning toward Austin, Texas, as the site for its second United States car factory, according to a Bloomberg report published Tuesday. Tesla is asking Austin officials for a tax deal
Teslarati
APRIL 17, 2022
Last week, City of Austin employees visited The Boring Company’s (TBC) Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) Loop in Sin City. . Ten employees from the City of Austin’s Development Services Department (DSD) visited The Boring Company’s LVCC Loop.
Teslarati
JUNE 28, 2022
Volkswagen AG’s CEO Herbert Diess said Tesla’s production ramps at both the Berlin and Austin Gigafactories should slow the company down enough for the German automaker to catch up.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2018
Maven is now offering its first all-electric fleet of cars for use in the gig economy; 20 Chevrolet Bolt EVs are available for freelance drivers in Austin, Texas to earn money on their own schedules. Maven is working with Austin Energy, the Austin Transportation Department, and Rocky Mountain Institute to create infrastructure solutions leading to an all-electric future.
Teslarati
APRIL 4, 2021
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently highlighted the need for more residential projects in the greater Austin, Texas area. The Tesla CEO initially posted a cryptic tweet that read “Austin++” on his Twitter page. Urgent need to build more housing in greater Austin area!
EV Obssesion
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Electric Buses, Trucks, Vans Austin’s CapMetro selects NFI for Nation’s largest electric vehicle procurement with up to 171 EVs and 427 chargers from New Flyer Citroën launches New ë-Berlingo Electric in the UK Volvo Cars’ sales up 12.6
InsideEVs
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Are we reading too much into this or did VW choose Austin, Texas to send a message to Tesla
InsideEVs
JUNE 23, 2022
Tesla CEO says the company's newest plants are "losing billions of dollars" at the moment as they have hardly any output
Teslarati
JULY 13, 2021
Last week, Elon Musk announced Tesla’s first involvement in a major housing development project in Austin, Texas. Easton Park is a 2,400-acre community southwest of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, as per the Austin Business Journal.
InsideEVs
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Will it beat Giga Berlin
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are proposing a novel approach to suppress the “polysulfide shuttle” in Li-S batteries—a freestanding, three-dimensional graphene/1T MoS 2 (3DG/TM) heterostructure with highly efficient electrocatalysis for lithium polysulfides (LiPSs).
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 22, 2015
A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin will receive two grants totaling $15 million to study switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), with a focus on how it can become a sustainable source of bioenergy. Tom Juenger, a professor of integrative biology, will lead scientists from multiple institutions—including federal agencies, universities and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology—on two projects researching switchgrass.
Teslarati
JUNE 15, 2021
Tesla is expanding its START Training Program to Austin Community College in Texas. based Gigafactory in Austin, more commonly known as Giga Texas. The post Tesla to expand START training program to Austin, funneling talent for Giga Texas appeared first on TESLARATI.
Electric Cars are for Girls
JANUARY 17, 2012
My son and I have decided after two overhauls to our Austin Heally 3000 MKIII to convert it to an EV. The car is dismantled and ready for a conversion
InsideEVs
MARCH 17, 2022
Herbert Diess says that without the new EV plant that will be built in Wolfsburg, VW would have "no chance" to compete with Tesla
InsideEVs
JULY 30, 2022
Sources suggest Musk could use the airport for Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company employees
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 14, 2017
Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Columbia University surveyed more than 1,200 people in Austin, Texas, to examine how their habits changed after Uber and Lyft pulled drivers out of the city due to a local law change. In May 2016, Austin voters blocked a ballot measure that would have allowed the companies to keep using their own background-check systems.
InsideEVs
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
A drone operator captured footage of a truck delivering crates marked Cathode Line 1 and Anode Line 1 production equipment
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
Daimler’s car2go mobility program has reached 10,000 registered members in its first North American city, Austin, Texas, after just more than four months since its public launch on 21 May 2010. Since the start of the car2go operations, more than 80,000 rentals have been completed throughout the greater downtown Austin area with average usage between 30 and 60 minutes per rental.
Electrek
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
This year however, GM’s “everybody” includes some familiar, villainous faces from the Austin Powers film franchise. General Motor’s streak of newsworthy movements continues as we head into Super Bowl weekend.
InsideEVs
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Tesla employees and other workers captured videos from inside Giga Texas and posted them online
InsideEVs
JULY 21, 2022
Tesla's Senior VP of Powertrain and Energy Engineering expects 4680 production at Giga Texas to top 1,000 packs per week by year end
InsideEVs
DECEMBER 2, 2021
As of December 1, 2021, Tesla's new corporate headquarters is located on the massive Gigafactory Texas site
InsideEVs
APRIL 21, 2022
This is likely because the company cannot produce as many structural battery packs featuring 4680 cells as needed to meet demand
InsideEVs
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Tesla is on the brink of opening two huge new factories. Here's what recent filings in Texas reveal
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Ford announced two partnerships with utilities in Texas— Austin Energy in Austin and Centerpoint Energy in Houston—to prepare those two regions for electric vehicles. Ford will work with Austin Energy and Centerpoint Energy to develop consumer outreach and education programs on electric vehicles as well as share information on charging needs and requirements to ensure the electrical grid can support the necessary demand.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
Professor John Goodenough, the inventor of the lithium-ion battery, and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have identified a new cathode material made of the nontoxic and inexpensive mineral eldfellite (NaFe(SO 4 ) 2 ), presenting a significant advancement in the quest for a commercially viable sodium-ion battery. The UT Austin cathode achieved a specific capacity that is only about two-thirds of that of commercial lithium-ion batteries.
InsideEVs
OCTOBER 4, 2021
It seems Tesla has already unofficially made the switch from California to Texas
InsideEVs
JULY 13, 2021
Tesla's German factory is smaller, and construction started sooner, but there's much more red tape
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 22, 2014
A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to UT Austin’s Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) at the Jackson School of Geosciences, the Gulf of Mexico study includes researchers from The Ohio State University, Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the Consortium for Ocean Leadership and the US Geological Survey.
InsideEVs
DECEMBER 17, 2021
CEO also says the factory will lead to the creation of 100,000 indirect jobs
InsideEVs
AUGUST 17, 2021
It seems Tesla is about to set up yet another Giga Press for upcoming Model Y production in Texas
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a novel electrode for lithium-sulfur batteries that improves cyclic stability and rate capability significantly. In a paper published in the ACS journal Nano Letters , they report using polypyrrole-MnO 2 coaxial nanotubes to encapsulate sulfur. MnO 2 restrains the shuttle effect of polysulfides greatly through chemisorption and the polypyrrole serves as conductive frameworks.
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