Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2023

Dow and X-Energy Reactor Company, a developer of advanced nuclear reactors and fuel technology for clean energy generation, announced that Dow has selected its UCC Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas for its proposed advanced small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear project.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX’s South Texas Starship aims to build up to five of the two-stage megarockets in 2023. SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas hardware endeavors began in an empty field in late 2018, kicking off Starhopper testing in 2019. About five full stacks — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 14, 2023.

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JULY 8, 2021

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been linked to a 73-acre land purchase in Bastrop County, Texas. The Boring Company (TBC) already established an office building in Pflugerville. Gapped Bass LLC is a Texas Domestic Limited-Liability Company that was established on April 12, 2021. Credit: The Boring Company.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Tesla Gigafactory Mexico will build the company’s next-generation vehicle. The Tesla CEO elaborated that Gigafactory Mexico will focus on building the company’s next-gen vehicle. Tesla adopted a similar strategy for Giga Texas, also known as the company’s Cybertruck factory.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Some of the Tesla jobs are in Austin, Texas, and one is in Fort Collins, Colorado. Engineering Technician RTL Engineer Sr. Controls Engineer Mechanical Design Engineer Data Center Technician ML Compiler Engineer Sr. Structural Engineer Sr. High-Speed IO Engineer Sr.

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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. After Teslarati reported on the expansion of Gigafactory Texas last year, Musk told us the purpose was to begin working on the ecological paradise surrounding the property.

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APRIL 1, 2023

Nacero will transition its current pre-construction, multi-billion USD facility in Penwell, Texas—designed to produce low carbon gasoline—to the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and lower carbon aviation fuel (LCAF). Earlier post.) MTJet uses uses methanol as an intermediate in jet fuel production.

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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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JULY 27, 2021

SpaceX says its Hawthorne, California rocket factory and headquarters has completed the assembly of Starship and Super Heavy’s 100th Raptor engine. First firing of Starship Raptor flight engine! 100th build of a Raptor engine complete pic.twitter.com/ymoJmV820Z — SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 26, 2021.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

The Tesla Semi jobs are in Sparks, Nevada; Palo Alto, California; and Austin, Texas. Tesla Boomer Mama on X counted 86 new jobs posted by the Tesla Semi department , including positions called for Asset Technicians, Software Engineers, and supply chain specialists. Tesla posted quite a few open jobs related to Semi production.

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Teslarati

APRIL 22, 2021

Tesla is planning to build a new team that will help explore the use of new materials that can be used in the company’s products, according to one of the automaker’s lead engineers. This is a new team that I get to build from scratch! Our goal is to work on problems that make step changes in the optimal design space.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Recent flyovers of Giga Texas suggest that work is now underway to build production Model Ys equipped with 4680 battery cells, and new batches of the vehicle have been manufactured. . To state that there is a lot of excitement for the Made-in-Texas Model Y would be an understatement.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It appears that Tesla has tapped one of its strongest talents to help Gigafactory Texas ramp its operations. As per recent reports, Elon Musk has reportedly tapped Tesla China’s top executive Tom Zhu to help run and optimize Gigafactory Texas. Zhu is quite similar to Musk. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2023

Lexus unveiled the all-new GX during a world premiere in Austin, Texas, USA. V6 twin-turbocharged engine delivers impressive output and torque, along with class-leading towing capabilities. Special seats are designed to minimize head toss while driving on rough roads, thereby contributing to reduced passenger fatigue.

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Teslarati

APRIL 20, 2021

SpaceX has installed at least two of three new upgraded Raptors on Starship serial number 15 (SN15) ahead of a triple-engine static fire scheduled as early as Wednesday, April 21st. Captured by several different unofficial photographers, Raptor engines SN54, SN61, and SN66 were simultaneously transported to the launch pad on April 15th.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Texas-based fuel company Nacero ( earlier post ) will build its second low- and zero-carbon fuels plant in Newport Township, Pennsylvania. Topsoe is providing engineering and design services currently and will supply catalyst and proprietary hardware. The company will build its first facility in Pennwell, Texas.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

In May, the 82 nd Texas Legislature passed and the Governor Rick Perry signed House Bill 1353 , which took effect on 1 September. This legislation allows the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to create a 75-mph speed limit on sections of the highway system found to be reasonable and safe through a speed study. In 2002, Gov.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Texas Instruments (TI) introduced the first reference design that adds Wi-Fi connectivity to an electric vehicle (EV) charging station. Benefits of the EV Charging Station with Wi-Fi reference design: Level 1 and Level 2 charge operation. Wi-Fi connectivity support from any smartphone, tablet, computer or smartTV.

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MARCH 23, 2024

In a pair of recent features, automotive manufacturing veteran Sandy Munro and his team take a look at the Cybertruck’s interior and underbody to discuss some of Tesla’s design decisions in building the electric vehicle (EV).

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APRIL 23, 2022

University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX). The challenge will span four years and after each year, teams will be evaluated on their vehicle design and process. The EcoCAR EV Challenge, managed by DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, builds on a 34-year history of DOE Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions.

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Teslarati

MARCH 15, 2024

The flight, which took place from Starbase, Texas, yesterday morning at 8:25 am CT , capitalized on previous test flights and accomplished a host of new objectives. All 33 Raptor engines lit in a staggered sequence, and once throttled up, the world’s biggest rocket took flight for the third time.

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Teslarati

MAY 26, 2021

Elon Musk’s Boring Company filed to further renovate its office building in Pflugerville with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The upcoming renovation hints that The Boring Company’s roots in Texas are expanding. TBC leased two buildings on 14 acres of land in Pflugerville, Travis County, late last year.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. It also kickstarted the field of genetic engineering — the study of altering the genome to fight disease and change human health for the better. With advancements like CRISPR, genetic engineering is entering its own renaissance. I did my Ph.D.

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APRIL 6, 2021

SpaceX has begun installing the first of numerous propellant storage tanks at its first orbital South Texas launch facilities – a mostly ordinary and expected step made extraordinary by the fact that those tanks will be built out of Starship parts. Instead, SpaceX has decided to design and build its own propellant storage tanks.

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JULY 1, 2022

With plans to have the capacity to build more than 1 million EVs by 2025, GM continues to ramp investments in the ecosystem that will enable mass adoption and support those who play a vital role in the responsible deployment of electrified technology. EV safety doesn’t begin at the point of a collision.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Pinto Energy LLC (Pinto), a developer of smaller scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facilities, will build a 2,800 barrel per day (bpd) GTL plant at Pinto’s 80-acre industrial site to the east of Ashtabula, Ohio. Pinto has chosen Ventech Engineers International LLC (Ventech) as the project’s EPC Contractor.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 31, 2021

Tesla’s manager for Mobile Robotics, Chris Walti, recently invited skilled engineers and technicians to apply at Tesla and get the opportunity to work on the company’s humanoid robot program. . Teslarati reported that Tesla was looking for two mechanical engineers and two senior robotics architects for its humanoid robot. .

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Tesla plans to start building battery packs for the upcoming Cybertruck on a new cell manufacturing line in the Fremont factory, people with knowledge of the project told Teslarati. In August, we reported that Tesla had filed to build a new battery manufacturing equipment line on the second floor of the Fremont factory.

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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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AUGUST 2, 2021

In the space of two days, SpaceX has outfitted Starship’s first orbital-class Super Heavy booster with four car-sized grid fins, stacked the rocket to its full height, and begun the process of installing up to 29 Raptor engines. Raptor Boost engines RB17 and RB18 were delivered to the production site. Look at those grid fins!

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JANUARY 25, 2024

During Tesla’s 2022 Investor Day event, the company stated that the next-generation vehicle would utilize an “Unboxed Process” that should make it significantly more efficient to build. “The first manufacturing location for this will be at our Gigafactory and headquarters in Austin, Texas.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Prabhakar Patil, former CEO, LG Chem Power, and Chief Engineer of Hybrid Technologies, Ford Motor Company. Prior to joining LGCPI in 2005, Dr. Patil spent 27 years of his professional career at Ford Motor Company in various engineering and management positions. Dr. Arumugam “Ram” Manthiram, Professor, University of Texas at Austin.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

Texas Governor Rick Perry has awarded $2.75 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) to Terrabon for its work in biofuel technology development. The pilot plant is being designed in cooperation with American Water’s Applied Management Group, which also will provide operating support. Earlier post.).

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MAY 19, 2023

IEEE’s Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony showcases emerging technologies and celebrates engineering pioneers who laid the groundwork for many of today’s electronic devices. Engineering changes the way the world works.” Engineering changes the way the world works,” he said. Mulligan Jr.

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Teslarati

JUNE 8, 2023

Tesla has told suppliers to prepare for Cybertruck production by stating it plans to build 375,000 units of the all-electric pickup every year, according to a new report. The first lines have already been built at Tesla Gigafactory Texas , which the company showed during its Q1 Earnings Call earlier this year.

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

It appears that Tesla is hard at work in its efforts to prepare Gigafactory Texas for the production of the Cybertruck. As per observations from the electric vehicle community, for example, it would seem that numerous new production line robots have arrived at the Austin, Texas facility recently. .

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