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APRIL 7, 2022

Aurora Innovation and Werner Enterprises, a premier transportation and logistics provider, announced a collaboration and commercial pilot to test and deploy safely autonomous trucks on one of the most commercially active and critical stretches of highway in the US. trucking industry: Atlanta to Los Angeles.

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MARCH 18, 2021

UK-based battery manufacturer AMTE Power and Faradion Ltd. , a leader in non-aqueous sodium-ion battery technolog ( earlier post ), announced a collaboration which combines Faradion’s IP with AMTE Power’s design and manufacturing capabilities. These trends will drive a significant increase in the use of battery storage.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

McDermott International, a premier, fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions (ECS) to the energy industry, has joined a consortium of public, private and academic partners collaborating on a US Department of Energy (DOE) project—Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Austin, Texas-based energy research organization Pecan Street Inc. launched Texas’ first grid-tied vehicle-to-grid (V2G) testing center at its lab in Austin, turning electric vehicles into a dispatchable load shaving tool for the municipally-owned electric utility, Austin Energy.

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Baua Electric

MAY 2, 2024

Italy’s Texa, which is a key player in the areas of design, industrialisation, and production of diagnostic tools, vehicle tele-diagnostic devices, and exhaust gas analysers for cars, two-wheelers, trucks, and agricultural vehicles, has introduced its latest diagnostic tool – Texa TXT Bharat – in the Indian market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2018

Thirty-six percent of all commercial diesel trucks on US roads are now powered by the newest generation of diesel technologies (MY 2011 and newer), up from 30% in 2016 and 25.7% Indiana, Texas and California rank highest in the greatest total numbers of new Class 8 heavy-duty trucks. grams per brake horsepower hour (g/HP-hr.)

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Teslarati

APRIL 30, 2024

Hyundai Motor will use solar energy to power its Georgia Metaplant, which is still under construction. South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Group signed a 15-year power agreement with Spain’s Matrix Renewables to power the electric vehicle (EV) plant. The agreement will run from 2025 through 2040.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). Integrated Power Block Heat Exchanger/Thermal Energy Storage System for CSP Plants, $348,000 CFOAM LLC, Triadelphia, W. Madison, Wis. Louis , Mo.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2020

Researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a cobalt-free high-energy lithium-ion battery, eliminating the cobalt and opening the door to reducing the costs of producing batteries while boosting performance in some ways. The findings appeared in the journal Advanced Materials.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Tesla has officially entered the Texas market as an energy provider, new documents from the Texas Public Utility Commission state. In August, Tesla Energy had officially filed an application with the Texas Public Utility Commission to sell power in the Lone Star State. The story was initially reported by Gizmodo.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

Tesla’s Megapack will power one of the company’s biggest production plants as the automaker and energy company has landed approval for a massive battery energy storage system (BESS) project at Gigafactory Texas, filings show. Texas gets incredibly hot during the Summer but also has harsh winters. acres in size.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

CPS Energy of San Antonio has signed a Power Purchase Agreement for approximately 200 MW of power from the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP), located just west of Midland-Odessa. The agreement marks the first US purchase by a utility of low-carbon power from a commercial-scale, coal-based power plant utilizing carbon capture.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As in Europe, the lack of a publicly available, nationwide electric charging infrastructure for commercial vehicles in the US, especially for long-haul freight operations, remains one of the biggest barriers for widespread deployment of electric trucks. BlackRock’s Renewable Power group is a part of BlackRock Real Assets.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

Gatik is the market leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, and in 2021 launched the world’s first fully driverless commercial delivery service with Walmart. This announcement follows on rapid commercial and technical progress at Gatik.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Enel Green Power, through its North American renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, Inc. —Salvatore Bernabei, CEO of Enel Green Power. As an early leader in green hydrogen development, Enel Green Power is actively evaluating opportunities to co-locate electrolyzers across its development pipeline in the US.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

TeraWatt Infrastructure is developing the first network of high-powered charging centers for heavy-duty and medium-duty electric trucks along the Interstate 10 (I-10) highway, stretching from the Port of Long Beach - Los Angeles, California to the El Paso, Texas area.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

LL was established in 2013 after developing an entirely new methodology in the construction of electric motor and generator technologies that create more power while using less energy. Linear Labs motors significantly beat Department of Energy and ARPA-E goals for Cost Density and Power Density. million seed round led by Science Inc.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2022

This Texas Instruments calculator, called the Little Professor, debuted in 1976 and proved an instant hit. A 9-volt battery powered the Texas Instrument TMS0975NL integrated circuit and the eight-digit LED display. Many years ago, my 7-year-old sister had a calculator just like this, and I desperately wanted one, too.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2011

(KLD), developers of high-performance electric motor technology ( earlier post ), was selected by the State of Texas to receive $2.8 million in funding from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF). kW power continuous, 137.5 As an example, the KLD D1166 electric drive system for scooters integrates a an electric motor (4.8

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Green Car Congress

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).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2022

This release powers Aurora’s next-generation truck fleet and its recently unveiled Toyota Sienna test fleet. New commercial route between Fort Worth and El Paso supported by daily map updates. is the first product release that is powering Aurora’s trucking fleet and its ride-hailing Toyota Sienna fleet. The Aurora Driver 2.0

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Green Car Congress

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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JANUARY 30, 2016

and Houston, Texas. The new 15 LNG fueled vehicles will replace Ryder diesel-powered vehicles in the existing fleet and will be serviced out of Ryder’s Lafayette, La. Shell has relied on Ryder for logistics solutions for more than 10 years. facility, which is being engineered to meet the unique compliance requirements for natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2015

Texas is famous the world over for two things on a massive scale: oil and droughts. Not only does Texas have the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford shale, but it also has the Gulf of Mexico and its massive oil deposits and endless gallons of seawater that are now economically treatable thanks to next generation water processing technology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Reciprocating engines tend to be smaller than other types of natural gas-fired electricity generators and account for a relatively small share of power plants fueled by natural gas. Based on data in EIA’s Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, reciprocating engines accounted for 1% of the total natural gas-fired power fleet.

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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. Nacero Blue Gasoline is made from natural gas using renewable power and carbon capture. The company will build its first facility in Pennwell, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

Researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Texas at Austin, with colleagues at the US Army Research Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have developed a thick cobalt-free high voltage spinel (LiNi 0.5 The paper on their work is published in the Journal of Power Sources.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. We will still need these liquid hydrocarbon fuels to power our machines, vehicles and airplanes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The team achieved these benefits by developing the next generation in vehicle dynamic and powertrain (VD&PT) control software, designed to proactively use “look-ahead” information to anticipate vehicle power demand. The new tools developed to meet these efficiency goals include eco-routing, eco-driving and power-split optimization.

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MARCH 21, 2024

The new station is strategically located in a busy freight corridor, providing electric truck drivers with 65 charging piles powered by Voltera. The post Einride opens largest charging station for heavy-duty EVs, powered by Voltera appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2020

With its electric-powered school sales up more than 250% in fiscal 2020 compared with last year, and an ever-increasing interest from school districts and fleet operators across the US and Canada, Blue Bird is ramping up its electric bus production capacity to 1,000 units annually to meet the anticipated growth in demand. —Phil Horlock.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

The selected projects include: Geothermix, LLC (Austin, TX) Geothermix will harvest waste heat from existing oil and gas wells in Texas to generate commercial quantities of geothermal electricity. ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). Transitional Energy (Aurora, CO). Transitional Energy (Aurora, CO).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

SK Signet’s new V2 charger, which will be made at the Plano facility, provides a maximum power output of 400 kW and can charge an EV up to 80% in 15 minutes—3 minutes faster than existing chargers. SK Signet will also manufacture its 350 kW ultra-fast charger, which can fully charge EV batteries from 20% to 80% in 18 minutes.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Furthering its success in powering traditional medium-duty shuttles and trucks with its cutting-edge electric drivetrain technology, Phoenix Motorcars will integrate EasyMile’s driverless technology to its range of zero emission vehicles. The company’s electric vehicles have logged more than 2.3-million million zero emission miles.

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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 4, 2015

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