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Environmental groups look to halt Tesla’s battery plant permits at Gigafactory Texas

Teslarati

Environmentalists and activist groups are setting their sights on Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas. In a letter to Mayor Steve Adler, the groups called on the city to withhold permits for the electric vehicle maker, including Giga Texas’ dedicated battery cathode facility. Read the group’s full letter to Giga Texas below.

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Profile: Li-ion Battery and Pack Supplier Valence Technology

Green Car Congress

Founded in 1989, and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Valence has facilities in Nevada, China and Northern Ireland. There are a number of companies offering lithium phosphate R&D. The two companies have had a relationship since 2005. According to the US DOE/EIA, the US average total tax for a gallon of diesel was $0.43/gallon

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

Green Car Congress

The fleets include two utility fleets, five cities and towns, three counties, ten private companies, two state fleets, ten school districts, and two universities. North Central Texas Council of Governments’ North Central Texas Alternative Fuel and Advanced Technology. The vehicles will be deployed across the state.

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

I ordered a controller from a company in California, which used a single power Darlington transistor, and 4 deep cycle 12-volt batteries.” This past October, he led the chapter in coming to the rescue of a 1981 Jet Electrica 007 , an electric car built in Texas that was scheduled for crushing in Southern California. Jet Electrica 007.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. I want to sell power to Texas, because we can. Well you look at Germany and four companies vie for each roof space.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

He said he’d try to get his boat, a 42-footer with three people on board, back to Atwood’s , a lobster company on Spruce Head Island, Maine. Other state and national authorities allow citizens to use their voices to verify their identity and thus gain access to their tax data records and pension information.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

The property owners pay off the loans as an assessment item on their property tax bills. To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

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