Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Autonomous driving company Aurora has released its first commercial beta of the Aurora Driver, which consists of the hardware, software, and data services needed to safely operate an autonomous Aurora-powered vehicle. Aurora Driver Beta is currently hauling loads for FedEx between Dallas and Houston in a commercial pilot of Aurora Horizon.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Greyrock Energy, a company transforming natural gas into premium transportation fuels ( earlier post ), announced a final investment decision (FID) to build a small-scale Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) facility near Houston, Texas. The plant will be commercially operational by the end of 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2016

BIOX Corporation and World Energy announced a 50/50 joint venture to acquire and operate a 90 million US gallon (USG) (341 million liter) biodiesel production facility in Houston, Texas. Each company has committed US$10 million to the World Energy BIOX Biofuels joint venture.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The city of Houston is set to receive the first Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Buy America-compliant mid-size autonomous bus in the US. The company’s electric vehicles have logged more than 2.3-million million zero emission miles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2023

Proman Stena Bulk, the joint venture between tanker company Stena Bulk and methanol producer Proman, successfully completed the first barge-to-ship methanol bunkering on the US Gulf Coast. Bunkering Methanol is widely available in the Port of Houston, which is the United States’ busiest port in terms of foreign tonnage.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2023

The rental giant plans to bring 2,100 EVs to Houston, as well as an "EV fast-charging hub" at Houston Hobby airport that will serve both ride-hailing drivers and the general public, according to a company press release. Hertz this week announced plans to nearly triple its EV rental fleet in the heart of America's oil industry.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

At the Port of Houston, the project team will conduct a feasibility study for scaling up hydrogen production and use. The hydrogen will power a stationary fuel cell to provide clean, reliable power for the Texas Advanced Computing Center and supply a hydrogen station with zero-emission fuel to fill a fleet of fuel-cell-electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A joint industry partnership to commercialize clean, gold hydrogen, the program’s founding members include synthetic biology company Cemvita Factory (innovator in low-carbon microbial solutions for energy and mining resource extraction, production, and renewal); and Chart Industries, Inc. (a a leader in clean energy solutions).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Port Freeport’s resident OEM Terminal Operator and partner Amports is a private automotive marine terminal, processor and logistics management company that provides customers a variety of professional and value-added services. Current VWGoA port operations in Houston and Midlothian (TX) will be consolidated into the new hub at Port Freeport.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2023

Airbus Ventures has invested in Venus Aerospace , a Houston-based hypersonic flight startup seeking to enable cost-effective one-hour global transport. This will include long-duration engine runs this summer at Spaceport Houston, as well as the design, build, and flight of our drone with the broader Venus team and our incredible partners.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2022

ExxonMobil is planning a hydrogen production plant and one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects at its integrated refining and petrochemical site at Baytown, Texas, supporting efforts to reduce emissions from company operations and local industry. billion cubic feet per day.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 17, 2023

Though, it’s been a long time since the company entered new cities … until now. Cruise is now coming to Houston and Dallas. Cruise has slowly been expanding its network of robotaxis and their availability in certain markets.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

To lease and get unlimited free home charging with DriveFree, you need to live in the Houston area and have Octopus Energy as your home electricity provider. The company takes care of the title and registration for you. Cars currently on offer on the company’s website include Chevy Bolt, Hyundai Kona, VW ID.4,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2021

Colonial Pipeline is the largest refined products pipeline in the US, transporting more than 100 million gallons of fuel daily to meet the energy needs of consumers from Houston, Texas to the New York Harbor. On 7 May, the Colonial Pipeline Company learned it was the victim of a cyberattack involving ransomware.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 10, 2015

After failing to convince the Texas legislature to legalize direct sales (twice), the company is opening a second gallery in Houston this weekend. Like the existing Tesla gallery--also in Houston--the new one will show.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

The company currently produces acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer at the facility and is finalizing construction of its TCX ethanol technology development unit. A significant portion of the methanol produced would be used to support the company’s operations. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2016

A Fortune 2000 global company headquartered in Northern Europe has entered into an FEL-2 package license agreement with CRI/Criterion Catalyst Company LTD (CRIUK), a global catalyst technology company. KBR is a leading global engineering, construction and services company. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2021

The company delivers freight daily in Texas, and also tests in California. Kodiak delivers freight daily for its customers between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, operating autonomously on the highway portion of the route. the human safety driver did not have to disengage the autonomous system—customer deliveries.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As per images from Tesla’s Houston-Cypress location, Cybertrucks that are reportedly being prepared for customer deliveries also had no aero wheel covers. Interestingly enough, Tesla aftermarket company T-Sportline has shared a video on its YouTube channel potentially explaining the issue with the Cybertruck’s original aero covers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2012

Waste Management plans to expand its fleet of natural gas-powered collection vehicles in the Houston area and open a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station in Conroe. In 2007, the company set a goal of reducing fleet emissions by 15% and increasing fuel efficiency by 15% by 2020.

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Teslarati

APRIL 9, 2024

Tesla also notes that Prototype Vehicle Operators must provide feedback and suggest ways to improve the company’s data collection processes. Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently stated in a post on X that the company will be unveiling its dedicated Robotaxi on August 8, 2024.

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Electrek

JANUARY 14, 2022

Houston-headquartered renewables company EDP Renewables North America has completed a 200-megawatt (MW) solar farm in Randolph County, Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis. It’s now the largest-capacity solar farm in Indiana.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The job entails working with other Fortune 500 companies and selling B2B hardware. Business Development Manager Position, the job entails growing the company’s charging business. The chargers will first be installed in Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington D.C. Business Development Manager.

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Teslarati

MAY 10, 2023

Now, Cruise has announced yet another expansion in service, coming to Houston and Dallas later this year. The announcement of the service expansion was made by the Cruise CEO on Twitter this morning, indicating that Dallas and Houston would be recieving robotaxi service in the coming weeks.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2019

Syzygy Plasmonics , a technology company developing the world’s highest performance photocatalyst, raised $5.8 Other participants include angel investors from the Creative Destruction Lab program and the Houston area. Other participants include angel investors from the Creative Destruction Lab program and the Houston area.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The projects would also help improve air quality in underserved areas of major American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, and Salt Lake City. Gas Technology Institute: Houston to Los Angeles (H2LA)–I-10 Hydrogen Corridor Project.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 24, 2021

Tesla signed an agreement with Alset EHome, a home building company, to make sure that an entire community will be built with Tesla’s solar roofing panels, TeslaNorth has reported. The community […].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A reaction cell (left) and the photocatalytic platform (right) used on tests of copper-iron plasmonic photocatalysts for hydrogen production from ammonia at Syzygy Plasmonics in Houston. —Hossein Robatjazi, chief scientist at Houston-based Syzygy Plasmonics. Courtesy of Syzygy Plasmonics, Inc.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 28, 2023

Shotwell in Houston on April 28, 2023. The foundation was founded by the Space Center Rotary Club of Houston, Texas, in 1985 to organize and coordinate an annual event to recognize outstanding achievements in space and create greater public awareness of the benefits of space exploration. RNASA will hold a black-tie banquet honoring Ms.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

PACCAR has teamed up with Aurora, a leading autonomous driving technology company, and FedEx to launch a commercial pilot of autonomous trucks in linehaul trucking operations. This is the first collaboration of its kind between a truck manufacturer, an autonomous technology developer and a logistics provider.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

Speaking at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston , Petrobras CEO Maria das Graças Silva Foster said that the Brazilian oil and gas company’s reserves will double in size by 2020. Production, which was 2.2 million barrels of oil equivalent (oil and natural gas) per day in 2012, is expected to reach 5.7

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Chevron USA, a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, and Iwatani Corporation of America (ICA), a wholly owned subsidiary company of Iwatani Corporation will co-develop and construct 30 hydrogen fueling sites in California by 2026. Iwatani Corporation of America has headquarters offices in Houston, Texas and Santa Clara, California.

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Cars That Think

JULY 12, 2023

In this report we will highlight 100 companies paving the way to achieve $1 per 1 kilogram of clean hydrogen in 1 decade. If you would like to showcase your innovative solutions at our upcoming Reuters Events: Hydrogen North America 2023 (Houston, October 11-12) we would love to hear from you – do get in touch today.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2022

The company estimates development of the facility would generate up to 880 construction jobs at peak construction. The company plans to locate its greenfield facility at the Port Allen Rail Terminal, which offers railroad and highway accessibility and proximity to timber operations.

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Teslarati

APRIL 18, 2024

Patel noted that state funding opportunities could be explored, or the company might try its luck again in future rounds of the CFI program. Patel reportedly noted that some sites along the proposed Tesla Semi Megacharger route are “no-brainers even without funding.”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

A diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company based in Houston, Phillips 66 has filed numerous patent applications on battery-related technology. We’re pleased to put some of our resources into play with Faradion as it works to bring game-changing technology to market using our high-performing anode materials.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

UK-based EV leasing company Octopus Electric Vehicles has launched its DriveFree plan in the Houston area. The program, which customers access online, includes the lease of a pre-owned EV, as well as a maintenance contract and smart home charging through Octopus Energy.

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