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. 2977969.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Estimated inventories of methane emissions from the natural gas production sector, excluding processing and transmission. Source: UT Austin. Found that the total methane emissions from natural gas production, from all sources measured in the study, were comparable to the most recent EPA estimates. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

in close collaboration with GTI and The University of Texas at Austin, has launched a US Department of Energy project, Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond. Frontier Energy, Inc., The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

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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. Methane hydrate—natural gas trapped in an ice-like cage of water molecules—occurs in both terrestrial and marine environments. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

MARCH 10, 2022

Tesla is reportedly seeing increased order rates in the United States this week after soaring gas prices have helped some drivers transition to electric vehicles to avoid paying astronomical amounts at the pump. AAA data suggests the average cost of a gallon of gas is currently $4.318, up nearly 60 cents since last week and nearly $1.50

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2020

GTI, a research, development and training organization focused on natural gas and energy markets, is launching a hydrogen technology center. GTI hydrogen fueling site at UT Austin. Using functional materials to store hydrogen and methane can increase gas storage capacities at lower and safe pressures.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2016

ExxonMobil will invest $15 million as a leadership member of the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to pursue technologies to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts and the risk of climate change. This research will complement ExxonMobil’s recently announced partnership with FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 14, 2022

We recently had the extreme pleasure, bucket list quality, of traveling from Tampa Bay, Florida, to Austin, Texas, to report on the Tesla Giga Texas Cyber Rodeo grand opening celebration for CleanTechnica. The frosting on the trip was driving to Austin in our new Tesla Model X Plaid delivered on Valentine’s Day.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing nearly $80 million in four new Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) to create novel technology platforms in the fields of living cell-based therapies, personalized heart tissue, point-of-care health systems and fuel derived from shale gas. hydrocarbon resources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

AMD has installed three Coulomb-manufactured ChargePoint electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at its Austin “Lone Star” campus for employees, and plans to install additional stations at its Sunnyvale campus in spring 2011. The charging stations have dual outputs that deliver energy simultaneously: a 7.2

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The study found that many problems ascribed to hydraulic fracturing are related to processes common to all oil and gas drilling operations, such as casing failures or poor cement jobs. The report identifies regulations related to shale gas development and evaluates individual states’ capacity to enforce existing regulations.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The New Braunfels location also happens to be the world’s largest gas station and convenience store. Tesla is bringing its Superchargers to Buc-ees in both New Braunfels, TX and Bastrop, TX. Looks like @Tesla has worked very well with one of our *favorite* places to stop when we travel. bucees in both new […].

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Cars That Think

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. But in low-humidity conditions and arid areas, water vapor has to be extracted directly from the air as a gas. The UT Austin technique is aimed at the latter.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 12, 2021

I was asked by a friend in the Tesla community to look into a Twitter thread by Austin Fire Info. The account tweeted that a Tesla was involved in a collision and that the fire extended to the awning of a gas station. The thread shared details of an accident involving a Tesla. A quick […].

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Teslarati

AUGUST 12, 2021

A Tesla Model X was involved in a fiery accident last night in Tarrytown, near Austin, Texas. The vehicle was completely engulfed in flames when the Austin Fire Department arrived. After Teslarati inquired with the Austin Fire Department’s Public Information Office, we were told that the driver was underage. Fire is out.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Tesla says the district, which recently started a multi-campus school police department for the community in Austin, Texas, could spend just $640 per year to charge the electric vehicles (EVs), while it estimates current spending of around $2,000 per year in gas for traditional police vehicles. Many cities across the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Rocks formed beneath the ocean floor by fast-spreading tectonic plates may be a large and previously overlooked source of free hydrogen gas, a new Duke University study suggests. Worman, postdoc at UT Austin, who led the study while a doctoral student at Duke. Their paper is published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2013

IGas, one of the leading producers of onshore hydrocarbons in the UK, has upped its estimates of Gas Initially In Place (GIIP) associated with the shales under its license in the north west of the UK, including the Bowland Shale, as ranging from a low of 15.1 —Andrew Austin, CEO. Tcf; and a high of up to 172.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2014

As of 31 July, fiscal 2014 tax revenue from sales of compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) motor fuel totaled $2,178,199, according to the Texas state Comptroller’s office. State forecasters projected fiscal 2014 natural gas motor fuel tax revenue of $992,000, equal to sales of 6.6

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

There is still a lack of new redox-active carbon dioxide carriers for effective electrochemical carbon dioxide capture from such point sources as flue gas. We intend to build an electrochemical modular system as a platform for a continuous conversion process of simulated flue gas to pure liquid fuels. —Haotian Wang.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2021

Javelina controls approximately sixty million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of hydrogen production through a combination of hydrogen entrained in the refineries’ waste gas that the facility processes, and hydrogen produced through a steam methane reformer process. Howard closed on the purchase of Javelina in February of this year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

The project will leverage Texas’ extensive resources—wind power, solar energy, underground salt-dome storage formations, hydrogen pipelines, natural gas infrastructure, international port operations, and a large, concentrated industrial infrastructure—to demonstrate the potential of DOE’s H2@Scale initiative.

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Teslarati

JULY 6, 2021

Elon Musk is thus prone to entertaining ideas that some might consider downright insane, such as the next-generation Tesla Roadster’s cold gas thrusters. Our team has started the move to Austin, TX and we already have team members on the ground touring potential manufacturing facilities near the Tesla Giga Factory.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Austin fell to the number-six ranking after having held the number-four spot on the 2013 list; Washington, DC and Boston, MA fell from the ninth and tenth spots, respectively, while EV infrastructure growth and registrations propelled Atlanta and Denver into the top 10. Austin, TX. Austin, TX. Atlanta, GA. Seattle, WA.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is [link] about $11 million to 20 new projects to help states and local governments to develop the infrastructure, training, and regional planning needed to help meet the demand for alternative fuel cars and trucks, including vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, and propane. City of Austin, Austin.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The funding is set to replace revenue lost from EV owners not paying road maintenance taxes normally charged at the gas pump. Texas is also the headquarters of Tesla’s operations, and it has built a huge “Gigafactory” in Austin.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This saves employees from having to spend a fortune on gas for the long commute. A lot of people that work at the Tesla plant in Austin be commuting from Killeen…… that ain’t no light commute either. For a visual, you can look at the map below to see the distance between Killeen, Texas, and Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas, in Austin.

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Teslarati

MARCH 24, 2022

“Musk is flexing his muscles with the Berlin and Austin build-outs, and within the EV landscape at this point it’s Tesla’s world and everyone else is paying rent.” ” Additionally, rising gas prices could be helping Tesla as more consumers work to transition to electric vehicles. trillion.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

has been experiencing severe inflation and high gas prices. EV’s may be the answer Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly popular as gas prices continue to rise. A “Consumer Reports” study stated that EV owners spent approximately 60 percent less on fuel each year than gas vehicle owners. It's no secret that the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Methane hydrates are ice-like structures with natural gas locked inside, which can be found both onshore and offshore—including under the Arctic permafrost and in ocean sediments along nearly every continental shelf in the world. The University of Texas at Austin. Earlier post.). DOE Investment: approximately $480,000 ?.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It will concentrate research activities in three critical domains: vehicle technology to accelerate lower greenhouse gas emissions, infrastructure provision, and reshaping travel demand. Consortium members: Arizona State University, Blinn Community College (TX), Michigan State University, Rutgers University and Texas A&M University. $4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2010

car2go offers mobility to urbanspace clients who are moving to downtown Austin, one of the fastest growing urban areas in the country. As a complement to existing public transportation options, car2go eliminates the burdens of limited downtown parking, high gas costs and congestion.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Cybathlon Challenges : 2 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE Enjoy today’s videos! Boston Dynamics ] Flying in circles with a big tank of gas really seems like a better job for a robot pilot than for a human one. UZH RPG ]

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Monash University (Australia) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia have recently discovered a new, efficient way to extract lithium and other metals and minerals from water. Produced water from shale gas fields in Texas is rich in lithium.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2012

Methane hydrates are 3D ice-lattice structures with natural gas locked inside, and are found both onshore and offshore—including under the Arctic permafrost and in ocean sediments along nearly every continental shelf in the world. Earlier post.). further assess resource volumes, particularly in deepwater settings. Lead organization.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2023

As initially reported by the Austin American-Statesman , the bill currently being proposed in the Texas State Legislature would impose either a $200 flat tax or an undisclosed per-mile-driven tax. And perhaps most surprisingly, EV owners in Texas are on board with the idea. However, much of the bill is still up for deliberation.

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