Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Electrofuels provider Infinium announced an agreement with Amazon to begin using Infinium Electrofuels in the retailer’s middle mile fleet as an ultra-low carbon alternative to traditional fossil fuels. The clean burning electrofuels will be produced for Amazon at one of the first electrofuels production facilities, located in Texas.

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JUNE 21, 2022

In a new plan from the Texas Department of Transportation, the state is setting aside $408 million for electric vehicle charging infrastructure over the next five years. Since Tesla moved its headquarters to Texas late last year, the state has made strides in EV adoption.

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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.

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JULY 26, 2021

There’s a saying in Texas that everything is bigger. New details about Tesla’s manufacturing plant just outside of Austin, known as Giga Texas, reveal that everything really is bigger in the Lone Star State, and Tesla is on its way to having the largest automotive manufacturing facility in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Gatik has established the first autonomous middle mile logistics network in North America and is rapidly expanding its fleet of Class 3-6 autonomous box trucks for customers in multiple markets, including Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Ontario.

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MARCH 17, 2022

Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas is about to start its operations, and when it does, it would be one of the United States’ most ambitious vehicle production facilities. The massive factory, which Elon Musk has noted will be almost a mile long when completed, is expected to hire thousands of workers in the area.

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APRIL 18, 2022

Tesla employees recently visited Del Valle Independent School District (ISD) students for a resume building session in preparation for their future careers, including potential jobs at Giga Texas. In 2021, Tesla and Del Valle ISD established a student training program for high schoolers interested in working at Gigafactory Texas.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Tesla has kicked off the 2022 Model Y’s customer deliveries from Gigafactory Texas. One of the first customers to receive a Model Y from Giga Texas shared a review of his new vehicle with the public. . The Tesla owner shared that his Model Y was one of the first 1700 units out of the Texas plant. Credit: Spoken Reviews.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

The size of Gigafactory Texas is pretty hard to comprehend since updates of the site typically feature footage of the upcoming electric vehicle factory from the air. To state that Gigafactory Texas is large would be a gross understatement. This makes a lot of difference when one does a drive-by of the Giga Texas site. .

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Less than two weeks after CEO Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX has restarted construction of a Starship launch site at Kennedy Space Center’s existing LC-39A pad, NASA has revealed the company’s plans for an entirely different Starship launch site just a few miles to the north. LC-49’s potential location is highlighted here.

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APRIL 18, 2024

As per a former Tesla VP, the EV maker may pivot to state funding or even use its own resources to build a Tesla Semi Megacharger route. With a public Megacharger network in place, the Tesla Semi could transport goods over distances that far exceed its 500-mile range.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2017

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) recently co-signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to begin testing connected and automated vehicle (CV/AV) technologies on the state highway system. This partnership builds upon the recent Texas Mobility Summit hosted by TxDOT.

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APRIL 1, 2021

Aerial photos show that SpaceX has rapidly begun building the first of two planned skyscraper-sized Starship ‘launch towers’ in South Texas – towers that could one day catch the Super Heavy boosters out of the air with huge arms. Integration Tower is starting to look like a castle.

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MARCH 16, 2022

that seems to indicate a Model Y Standard Range+ variant will be rolling out from Gigafactory Texas initially, as deliveries are set to begin soon. However, it could still be 4680 cells with the structural battery pack, as Tesla is cell constrained for the new batteries and could simply use fewer cells in the early builds of the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2022

In some states, such as Texas and Wyoming, pricing is by the minute: 1-90 kW: $0.16/min, For F-150 Lightning customers with the standard-range battery, the 250 kilowatt-hours of fast- charging energy is equal to nearly three “fill-ups,” or near-full charging sessions, or up to 575 miles of electric driving. min, 1-350 kW: $0.32/min.

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JANUARY 16, 2022

one of the largest supply chain solutions providers in North America, announced a long-term, strategic alliance with Waymo Via that will advance efforts to integrate commercial autonomous driving technology in transportation and logistics, with ultimate plans to complete fully autonomous transport in Texas in the next few years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

UPS plans to invest approximately $50 million to build an additional nine liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations, bringing the total number of stations to 13. The expansion will include on-site fueling stations in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. Phoenix, Ariz.,

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Air Products will build, own and operate the megaproject, which will produce more than 750 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of blue hydrogen in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. The network is the largest hydrogen pipeline system in the world, stretching more than 700-miles from Galveston Bay in Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana.

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APRIL 14, 2023

Operating in 4,500 feet of water about 190 miles south of New Orleans, Argos will support 250 permanent jobs. More than 15 million hours of work went into building the platform there. After final preparations and regulatory inspections, Argos was towed 380 miles offshore to the well sites for final hook up and commissioning work.

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MARCH 24, 2015

congratulated its customers on logging one million miles in revenue service. Proterra presented each transit agency with an award recognizing them as one of the early pioneers in EV bus technology adoption and honoring their role in building the future of mass transit and sustainable urban mobility. EV bus manufacturer Proterra Inc.

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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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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Ford Motor Company and Oncor announced they are coordinating efforts to help prepare North Texas for the operation of electric vehicles. Cooperation between Ford and Oncor also involves working with the state and local governments on the most efficient ways to bring EVs to north Texas.

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APRIL 23, 2013

UPS plans to purchase approximately 700 liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucks and to build four refueling stations by the end of 2014. An initial investment of more than $18 million to build fueling stations will be supported by the purchase of the 700 LNG tractors and continued expansion of the natural gas fleet in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2023

Building upon investments throughout this initial pilot, VWGoA anticipates a commercial launch of autonomous driving vehicles in Austin by 2026. and Austin, Texas. VWGoA is not building a dedicated ride hailing or ride sharing service on its own at this time. The company plans to also employ team members who worked with Argo AI.

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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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The US Department of the Interior will offer more than 21 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. billion in high bids and a 20-million-acre sale held last November that netted nearly $134 million.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Under the agreement, AMP-Trillium, the joint venture between AMP Americas and Trillium CNG, will build seven public fueling stations between August 2013 and early 2014 and lease new CNG trucks that will travel more than 13.2 million miles per year, servicing routes throughout Texas.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Tesla recently uploaded a video introducing its latest energy storage project in Angleton, Texas. According to Tesla, the Megapack storage project will allow Angleton to participate in the energy storage market and support the Texas grid during outages. Credit: City of Angleton, Texas). miles away from Texas New Mexico Power.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2012

has received sufficient transportation commitments to support development of its 1,230-mile Appalachia to Texas pipeline (“ATEX Express”) that will deliver growing ethane production from the Marcellus/Utica Shale areas of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio to the US Gulf Coast. Enterprise Products Partners L.P. cents per gallon.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

Additionally, KMP will invest approximately $220 million to build a new crude/condensate pipeline with a capacity of approximately 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) that will initially transport 50,000 bpd of condensate for Petrohawk from its production area in the Eagle Ford to the Houston Ship Channel. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2014

will construct the Diamond Pipeline, a 440-mile (708 km), 20-inch crude oil pipeline that will provide capacity of up to 200,000 barrels per day of domestic sweet crude from the Plains Cushing, Okla. PAA is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.

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AUGUST 8, 2021

TBC’s proposed tunnel would run from Tesla’s nearby Gigafactory Texas, where the automaker plans to produce the Model Y sedan and–eventually–the Cybertruck, to downtown Austin. . Elon Musk’s Boring Company linked to 73-acre purchase in Texas. The Boring Company was no exception.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

By August that same year, TBC shared a video of Prufrock II going live for the first time in Texas. In April 2022, The Boring Company uploaded a picture of Prufrock II launching into the ground in Texas. TBC plans to use the funds to recruit employees, scale Boring machine production and build tunnels.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Tesla’s new Standard Range All-Wheel-Drive Model Y all-electric crossover with 4680 battery cells is present at the Cyber Rodeo event the automaker is holding at its new production facility in Austin, Texas. Unlike anything available on Tesla’s website, the new Model Y had 279 miles of all-electric range.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2014

will build and operate a new, 213-mile (343 km), 16-inch diameter pipeline to transport carbon dioxide from the company’s St. The company plans to invest approximately $300 million on the pipeline, and an additional $700 million to drill wells and build field gathering, treatment and compression facilities at the St.

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