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Electrifying Chicago’s Urban Residential Neighborhoods: 3 New Community Chargers

EV Match

Since we started our work 4 years ago , we’ve made it easier to charge all over the country, including places typically considered to be “charging deserts” like parts of Texas, Michigan, and Illinois. Clean Energy in Irving Park. John’s Episcopal Church in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood. As the charging station host, St.

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Idea For Tesla Energy: Look At Austin’s Whisper Valley For Your Next Solar Neighborhood

CleanTechnica EVs

The idea is for Tesla to partner or collaborates with Whisper Valley to create another solar neighborhood. Tesla owner Mallory Tompsett lives in the Whisper Valley area of Austin and had an idea for Tesla Energy.

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Joe Tegtmeyer Talks Tesla Solar Housing, Tesla Giga Texas Site Map, & New Giga Texas Property Purchase

CleanTechnica EVs

Joe Tegtmeyer, who is a member of the Tesla Giga Texas Quad Squad of drone operators that document the daily progress of Giga Texas, has been documenting his thoughts along with daily progress at the Giga Texas site on YouTube. The two videos below are from July 10 and July 12. In the first video, […].

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Ford-Backed Argo AI Begins Driverless Taxi Operations, & Why This Is Big News

CleanTechnica EVs

Ford-backed autonomous vehicle company Argo AI recently started driverless vehicle operations in both Miami, Florida, and Austin, Texas, during daylight hours. From […].

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

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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Tesla Virtual Power Plant is providing energy security to Australian homes

Teslarati

“Even if all lights go out in the neighborhood, you will still have power. So let’s say that there’s a–like there was in Texas, there was a peak power demand, and the power demand, because the grid lacked the ability to buffer the power, they had to shut down power,” Musk explained.

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GM and OnStar sign on as official Pecan Street partners; studying EV services and smart grid interaction

Green Car Congress

Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. When Austin closed the Mueller municipal airport in 1999, community leaders committed to redeveloping the site into a ground-breaking mix-used, sustainable urban neighborhood. OnStar and General Motors are partnering in the Pecan Street Inc.’s The Mueller Community.

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