Electrek

MAY 8, 2023

Tesla confirmed that it is building a new crash test lab in Austin to further improve the passive safety of its electric vehicles. more… The post Tesla is building a crash test lab in Austin appeared first on Electrek.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Why did Tesla move design & initial production of its next-generation platform for the $25,000 compact car & robotaxi from Mexico to Austin?

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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. Both Austin and Tulsa, Oklahoma, are considered finalists for the massive "Terafactory", which will build the Cybertruck pickup truck and Model Y crossover.

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Teslarati

APRIL 21, 2025

Tesla’s Gigafactory in Texas is building what appear to be castings for the upcoming Cybercab, ahead of the vehicle’s launch and the highly anticipated debut of Unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD). On Monday, Tesla Giga Texas site observer Joe Tegtmeyer shared photos on X of some unique castings out beside the factory.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

Argo AI and Ford will deploy Ford self-driving cars, with safety drivers, on the Lyft network, as part of a network access agreement, with passenger rides beginning in Miami later this year and in Austin starting in 2022. In addition, Lyft will receive 2.5% In addition, Lyft will receive 2.5%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Stony Brook University have fabricated a thicker electrode for lithium-ion batteries by controlling nanosheet assembly via the combination of an external magnetic field and drying-based densification. —Guihua Yu, co-corresponding author.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 27, 2023

It looks like Austin, Texas, is going to get a bit cleaner thanks to its CapMetro regional public transportation provider, which is making progress toward a zero-emissions future for Austin. A big one. […]

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Green Car Reports

JULY 22, 2020

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday in a quarterly financial call that it picked the area near Austin, Texas, to build its next Gigafactory that will assemble the Cybertruck and other models.

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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. With this in mind, Austin transit leaders recently stated that the city’s transportation network would play a critical role in aiding or hindering further development.

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Teslarati

MAY 20, 2025

Tesla CEO Elon Musk just revealed more details about the company’s June Robotaxi launch, which will kick off in Austin. As of right now, Tesla is still set to push out the first Robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, in early June. As confidence builds and the accuracy of the fleet is ensured, more vehicles will be added to the fleet.

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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. Austin’s Development Services Department (DSD) told KXAN that The Boring Company proposed a tunnel in Austin and wanted to understand the permit requirements for the project.

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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. The post Neuralink posts more jobs based in Austin, Texas appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Tesla is planning to build something called “Giga Water Loop” just outside of Gigafactory Texas in Austin. more… The post Tesla is building something called ‘Giga Water Loop’ appeared first on Electrek. But we are not sure what it is.

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Electrek

MARCH 4, 2025

Starting today, the fully autonomous Waymo One ride service is available exclusively to customers in Austin, Texas through the Uber app. Todays news builds upon Waymos existing partnership with Uber and is a milestone in the robotaxi startups expansion to new cities around the US.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX). The EcoCAR EV Challenge, managed by DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, builds on a 34-year history of DOE Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions. Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) / Wilberforce University (Wilberforce, OH). University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL).

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 28, 2022

Tesla appears to have begun making the Model Y Long Range in Texas along with a new Standard Range with 4680 battery cells.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Tesla has applied to build a giant new facility, seemingly to produce cathode materials for battery manufacturing, next to “Gigafactory Texas” in Austin. more… The post Tesla applies to build giant new cathode factory for battery production next to ‘Gigafactory Texas’ appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Buzz vehicles will frequent two stations near the Austin Convention Center, delivering information and entertainment to those nearby. To celebrate the debut of the EV, Volkswagen will host various “Buzz Stops” throughout the city of Austin, Texas, where attendees of SXSW and locals can experience a coming chapter in the brand’s future.

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Last week, Elon Musk announced Tesla’s first involvement in a major housing development project in Austin, Texas. The project aims to build the first Tesla Solar neighborhood, making a sustainable residential community. The Tesla Solar neighborhood was provisionally named SunHouse at Easton Park. and Darca on the project.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 12, 2025

The Tesla Model Y was once the best-selling vehicle in the world, but workers building the EV are now being told to stay home for a week due to flagging demand. Beyond the Model Y production shutdown, Teslas pause will also impact Cybertruck production, which takes place at the same Austin, Texas factory.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 8, 2024

Tesla is expanding its presence in Texas as it snapped up a building located in Hutto, located about 25 miles north of its Gigafactory in Austin. million in renovations to the building, which is located off of U.S. It expects to start renovating the building as soon as this month. Tesla plans at least $1.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2022

A more recent trend with Europe’s lithium-ion battery build out is the emergence of auto majors as pseudo-battery producers seeking to secure cell supply through joint-venture plants. There are a number of bottlenecks in building and operating these super-sized battery plants that can take five-years to build and fully ramp up.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

million square feet, the Taylor facility would be over four times the size of the company’s Austin plant, which was affected by the state’s power issues earlier this year. The chips used in Tesla’s FSD computer are produced at Samsung’s Austin site. Samsung’s upcoming $17 billion chip plant is remarkable.

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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. However, Tesla is planning to add one more institution to this list: Austin Community College, according to a press release from the college.

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Electrek

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tesla is adding more job postings related to building its humanoid robot: Tesla Bot. One of the new postings even hints at production in Austin, Texas. more… The post Tesla adds more jobs to build its humanoid robot, hints at production in Texas appeared first on Electrek.

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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.

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Teslarati

JUNE 5, 2024

Tesla announced today that it has built 50 million 4680 battery cells at its Giga Texas plant in Austin. The company made its announcement through a post on X, along with a collage of team members at Giga Texas who contributed to the goal: Congrats 4680 Cell Manufacturing team on building their 50 millionth battery cell at Giga Texas!

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2024

It appears that Tesla is growing its footprint in Austin, Texas even further, with the electric vehicle maker reportedly leasing a 183,000-square-foot rail-served building in the RCR Taylor Logistics Park in Taylor, Texas. The post Tesla grows footprint in Texas with 183k-sq-ft building in Taylor: report appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2022

ACU is leading the NEXT Research Alliance (NEXTRA), which includes Georgia Institute of Technology, Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin, in a $30.5-million million research agreement sponsored by Natura Resources to design and build a university-based advanced molten salt research reactor.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Another excerpt from biographer Walter Isaacson’s book on Elon Musk shares new details about Tesla’s next-generation vehicle platform, including plans for a different build location than the automaker previously reported. The post Tesla changes initial build location for next-gen EV platform appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

EnergyX is currently building its Innovation Labs in Austin, Texas, and is actively scaling up its operations after a successful 2021 that saw them raise $20 million in funding and deploy their first LiTAS direct lithium extraction plants to Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

“They want to build it alone, so to some extent in Austin, we and Waymo will be competing with Tesla when they launch… Life is long, but we would love to partner with them.” “Ive had conversations with him at this point, Khosrowshahi said on Friday, during an interview with Bloomberg TV in Miami.

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2023

TSMC), which was already building a $12 billion fab in Arizona , upped the investment to $40 billion with a second plant. Samsung is planning a $17 billion fab near Austin , Texas, and in September Intel broke ground on the first of two massive new facilities worth $20 billion in central Ohio. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing C o.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tesla has quietly registered to build electric motors intended for non-land vehicles, according to the United States’ Patent and Trademark Office. Musk went on to detail the potential development of an electric boat that visitors could use to float on the Colorado River, which runs directly through Austin.

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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

JULY 27, 2021

Tesla says it is on track to build the first Model Y vehicles in Berlin and Austin in 2021. The company said that it is also making progress on the industrialization of Cybertruck, which is currently planned for Austin production subsequent to Model Y.

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Teslarati

MARCH 13, 2025

RJ Scaringe attended the South by Southwest (SXSW) event in Austin earlier this week. “But there’s also a strategy to realize that if we can build a product that enables and inspires people to be outdoors, it’s going to help people to want to be active participants in sustainability.”

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