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APRIL 13, 2021

In his latest YouTube video, Dave Lee interviewed Tesla Owners Club of Austin members Matt Holm, president, and Anuarbek Imanbaev, vice president. Lee’s channel is his outlet for sharing his real-time thoughts on investing and noted in his disclaimer that all of his content is for discussion and illustrative purposes only.

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JUNE 15, 2021

Austin Community College (ACC) and Tesla have launched a new 14-week intensive training program that will give students hands-on learning experiences for a manufacturing career at Tesla. Austin Community College District and @Tesla team up to […].

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JUNE 6, 2021

The Tesla Owners Club of Austin shared that it is hosting the Kilowatts booth at the ALTNRGShow, which is an acronym for alternative energy show, in Austin. The event will take place on June 12 and 14 from 9 am to 5 pm and is sponsored by Wells Solar and Electrical Services. Anyone who buys […].

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AUGUST 8, 2021

The Boring Company has some big plans for Austin, KXAN reports. KXAN confirmed that The Boring Company met with the City of Austin about a possible underground transportation tunnel that would go from Giga Texas to Downtown Austin.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Austin, Texas-based energy research organization Pecan Street Inc. launched Texas’ first grid-tied vehicle-to-grid (V2G) testing center at its lab in Austin, turning electric vehicles into a dispatchable load shaving tool for the municipally-owned electric utility, Austin Energy.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Austin welcomes Tesla’s decision to move its headquarters there, WTVB reports, but there are also some concerns related to housing. Mayor Steve Adler said that Tesla fits right in with Austin’s strong, innovative, entrepreneurial, and environmentally focused culture. […].

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

an early-stage biotechnology company developing drop-in fuels and chemical products, has joined the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), a not-for-profit unit of The University of Texas at Austin. —ATI-Clean Energy co-director Mitch Jacobson. ATI is a key program of the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

On Friday, Tesla, Austin Community College (ACC), and Mayor Steve Adler hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Tesla START Manufacturing training center at ACC. The new facility will be at ACC’s Riverside campus and is training students for a potential career at Giga Texas.

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APRIL 28, 2021

Tesla welcomed the University of Texas at Austin to its new gigafactory in Texas today. Beth Beagles, Director of Corporate Relations at the University of Texas at Austin, shared a photo on LinkedIn with the following caption: “A best in class tour of a best in class facility, thanks to Omead Afshar.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

City of Austin, Austin. Austin and San Antonio region; and hold training seminars regarding multifamily housing and workplace electric vehicle charging. Austin and San Antonio region; and hold training seminars regarding multifamily housing and workplace electric vehicle charging. Clean Energy. Clean Fuels Ohio.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently liked a tweet by the Austin Tesla Club. That tweet was the first in a three-part thread that revealed some interesting news. One of the key issues in Texas is that state law prevents Tesla owners from taking delivery of their vehicles. They would have to either pick it up […].

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JANUARY 26, 2020

GTI focuses its R&D efforts on the generation of clean hydrogen using hydrocarbon fuels that incorporate carbon capture and/or carbon sequestration in a cost-effective manner. GTI hydrogen fueling site at UT Austin.

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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%

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 30, 2023

Yotta Energies, a clean energy startup based out of Austin, Texas, has been making waves in the solar field since its founding in 2017. Its newest product, which was launched in September of 2022, is seeking to provide off-grid charging for electric vehicles across the US. This product, the Yotta REV, is a deployable EV […]

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APRIL 5, 2021

The Tesla Owners Club of Austin is celebrating Elon Musk Day on April 20th. The club set up the event and announcement on Tesla’s new Engage platform, and referenced the article I wrote last year when #ElonMuskDay was trending on Twitter on 4/20 — which happened to be the same day that the price of […].

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MARCH 26, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative (CEMI), which will focus on growing US manufacturing of clean energy products and boosting US competitiveness through major improvements in manufacturing energy productivity. Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative. University of Texas at Austin.

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APRIL 21, 2022

Bolivian micro-mobility and clean energy startup MOBI has partnered with American direct lithium extraction company Energy Exploration Technologies Inc. million off a $5 million valuation, is developing a clean transport ecosystem with its fleet of electric scooters, bikes, mopeds and e-bikes. EnergyX) ( earlier post ).

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MARCH 18, 2022

Volkswagen (VW) CEO Herbert Diess recently shared his thoughts on LinkedIn about his visit to Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest festival. In his post, Diess highlighted the tremendous response from American consumers to the VW ID BUZZ, a refreshed electric version of the company’s iconic microbus.

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JULY 23, 2021

In July 2020, Tesla began the construction of its Gigafactory in Austin, TX, which many nicknamed Giga Texas. Yes, it’s been a year and it’s expected to be up and running by the end of this year. Tesla may not be producing vehicles from the factory just yet, but its impact is being felt all […].

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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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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Ford Motor Company, Argo AI and Walmart are working together to launch an autonomous vehicle delivery service in Miami; Austin, Texas; and Washington, DC—Walmart’s first multi-city autonomous delivery collaboration in the US. In addition to testing self-driving technology in Pittsburgh, Detroit and Palo Alto, Calif.,

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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. That is more than 250 times the amount of natural gas used in the United States in 2013. Accordingly, other countries with high energy demands or limited resources—e.g.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Geographical distribution of Clean Cities Recovery Act awards. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative.

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MAY 25, 2021

Several graduates were selected to work at Tesla’s new Gigafactory in Texas, and the Tesla Owners Club of Austin was there to document this momentous event. Today, Tesla and Del Valle ISD held a signing day event for the school’s 2021 graduates. Tesla has some big things happening and I spoke with both Matt Holm, […].

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JANUARY 13, 2022

This work also supports the creation of new clean energy jobs, helping transition some of the oil and gas workforce to the production of renewable energy. With this funding, DOE is partnering with existing well owners and operators to use their idle or unproductive wells to access otherwise untapped geothermal potential.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Austin approves a huge electric transit bus purchase – 197, to be precise. Clean energy now provides 25.22% of total US available installed generating capacity. In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Gray County Wind Farm in Kansas is celebrating its 20th birthday.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Tesla seems to be delivering some of its early “Foundation Series” Cybertrucks in Texas, as many units have recently been spotted in the outbound lot at the company’s Gigafactory, while others have been seen preparing for delivery at a showroom in Austin.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. The UT Austin technique is aimed at the latter. But Yu and his colleagues at UT Austin developed theirs with arid atmospheres in mind.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond intends to show that renewable hydrogen can be a cost-effective fuel for multiple end-use applications, including fuel-cell-electric vehicles, when coupled with large, baseload consumers that use hydrogen for clean, reliable stationary power.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Tesla plans a major expansion of its Gigafactory in Texas as it looks ahead to production of the Cybertruck later this year.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin, and including engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research, is conducting a major field study to measure methane emissions from natural gas production, about which little empirical data exist.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

GM's Robotaxi Service Starts Work in Tesla's Back Yard.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Cooking, cleaning and other routine household activities generate significant levels of volatile and particulate chemicals inside the average home, leading to indoor air quality levels on par with a polluted major city, according to a study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The production numbers of Tesla factories are funny things. Everybody thinks they know them better than Tesla and Elon Musk. The line in Berlin-Brandenburg will produce a car every 45 seconds. That is not the bullets from a machine gun speed of battery cells, but it’s really, really fast. Some clever people with a calculator […].

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Lithium, a critical material used in high-charge-density batteries for electric vehicles and grid-scale electricity storage, is a crucial element in the clean energy supply chain. University of Texas at Austin – Freeman Lab. Nearly all of the US lithium stock is imported. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – SelectPureLi.

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APRIL 13, 2024

Last year, we wrote about 10 self-driving ID Buzz vans coming to Austin, Texas. More than three years ago, I wrote that the ID Buzz would be the first Volkswagen vehicles to drive autonomously, according to Volkswagen. Naturally, these don’t.

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