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Xcel Energy launches EV smart charging pilot in Colorado; Transportation Electrification Plan for New Mexico approved

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Xcel Energy will use this pilot to evaluate and learn about smart charging technology and program design before launching a full program where many more EV customers will be eligible to participate. These programs and offerings make up the company’s New Mexico Transportation Electrification Plan.

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Heliostat Consortium announces 7 projects to receive combined $3.5M in funding; DOE launches Heliostat Prize

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Projects from this solicitation, which will be implemented over the next 1–3 years, will focus on lowering the cost of heliostats and heliostat technologies and creating new market opportunities for the heliostat industry. Low-cost heliostats offer significant renewable energy potential. Digital Twin and Industry 4.0

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Tesla’s 3rd location for next-gen EV production to be named end of 2024-early 2025

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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. Tesla has an aspirational target of hitting 20 million vehicles per year in 2030.

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Audi is the latest automaker to reveal plans for a lower-cost EV

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Döllner didn’t give up any details, but given Audi’s preference toward SUVs, the entry-level EV could take more of a crossover-like design as a sibling to the Q3. The American automaker is developing a new low-cost EV platform to underpin a smaller electric pickup and SUV. Kia is also planning a series of low-cost models.

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Bosch acquires US ridesharing start-up SPLT

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The B2B approach is designed especially for commuters. Some 140,000 users in the United States, Mexico, and Germany currently take advantage of the service. The result is a journey to work and back without stress, at low cost, and with little environmental impact. SPLT ), a US start-up based in Detroit.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

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First place in the best overall proof-of-concept category went to social enterprise startup Wakoma for the Nimble , an open-source, portable, wireless mesh network system that communities can build and deploy locally. Many of these networks are planned, designed, built, and operated by the community and local partners.

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Solar fuels company Joule commissions first plant to demo commercial readiness, launches Joule Fuels subsidiary to advance direct solar-to-fuels platform

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Joule has commissioned its first SunSprings demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico ( earlier post ), where the company will prove its scalable platform for solar fuel production using a fraction of the land and capital investment required for algae-derived or agricultural biofuels. The initial output of the SunSprings plant will be ethanol.

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