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INRIX launches new platform to connect road authorities with vehicle operators for highly automated vehicles

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Self-driving vehicles are stimulating conversations globally, but they are in fact a very local challenge. —Chris Holmes, connected and autonomous vehicle research senior manager at Jaguar Land Rover.

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. The output of these processing stations is connected to an array of catalysts. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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E-Fuel Introduces Production Model of Home Ethanol System

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The size and weight reduction is due to several design improvements to the core ethanol conversion column that is now capable of processing various organic waste material, as well as cellulosic and algae feedstocks. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co discards 1.6 Click to enlarge. One example is the “beer slurry” discarded from breweries.

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Tesla outlines scheme for $4-5B battery Gigafactory; announces $1.6B offering

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Finalists for the Gigafactory location are Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The interest rate, conversion rate and other terms of the notes are to be determined. Tesla envisions a plant space requirement of up to 10 million ft 2 (929,000 m 2 ) with 1-2 levels. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. billion offering.

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Local Motors debuts first self-driving vehicle using IBM Watson Internet of Things for Automotive

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The vehicle, dubbed “Olli,” will be used on public roads locally in Washington DC, and late in 2016 in Miami-Dade County, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada. Local Motors, creator of the first 3D-printed cars ( earlier post ), introduced the first self-driving vehicle to integrate the advanced cognitive computing capabilities of IBM Watson.

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Clean Energy Expands Southern California LNG Truck Fueling Infrastructure

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We plan to connect this group of LNG fueling stations in Southern California to Northern California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah. These programs call for the retirement or conversion of old diesel trucks entering the ports in favor of new cleaner-burning and alternative-fueled trucks.

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Founding EVA chapter connects with entrepreneurial stars. When Straubel—also known for his 1984 Porsche 944 EV conversion—left Tesla, he founded Redwood Materials , a leading lithium battery recycling company in Carson City, Nevada. That was quite a conversion.” It was mostly members with electric conversions.

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