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Boring Company Las Vegas Convention Center Loop to welcome its first visitors in June

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The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) announced that The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) Loop is operational and expects to welcome its first visitors in June 2021. Credit: Las Vegas News Bureau/Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority).

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Rivian R1T electric pickup: Towing 11,000 pounds up Davis Dam Grade, in scorching heat

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The Davis Dam Grade, located along a stretch of State Route 68 between Las Vegas and the Hoover Dam, ascends from 550 feet elevation to 3,500 feet in just 11.4 The Davis Dam Grade test is the basis for an actual Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) test.

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LV officials hope Boring Company’s Vegas Loop is operational by Super Bowl LVIII

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Las Vegas officials are hoping that The Boring Company’s Vegas Loop will already be operational by Super Bowl LVIII. Steve Hill, President and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, previously mentioned his goal of having the Vegas Loop operational by Super Bowl LVIII.

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company linked to 73-acre purchase in East Texas

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The Boring Company’s Las Olas Loop proposal for Fort Lauderdale gets accepted. The strongest link Gapped Bass LLC has to TBC, however, is Steve Davis. Gapped Bass only has one principal on record, and it is Davis, who happens to be the President of The Boring Company. The Teslarati team would appreciate hearing from you.

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UPS to purchase ~700 LNG trucks, build 4 refueling stations by end of 2014

Green Car Congress

UPS already operates 112 LNG tractor trailers from fueling stations in Las Vegas, Nev.; UPS was a founding Interstate Clean Transportation Corridor (ICTC) fleet partner, a group that established publicly accessible LNG fueling stations in California, Las Vegas, and Utah. —Scott Davis, UPS Chairman and CEO.

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Ford F-150 Lightning prevails in two high-intensity towing tests in cold and warm climates

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This route was eight miles long, and ascends at a 7 percent incline to a maximum elevation of 11,158 feet. To test the other side of things, Ford also tested the all-electric F-150 Lightning along State Route 68 between Las Vegas and the Hoover Dam. Ford F-150 Lightning Range, efficiency revealed in Monroney sticker leak.

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"Spirit of DC" PHEV All Around America Update. from EVJerry back in DC with the "Spirit" Hanging out at the Beach!

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

20 + pounds added) after some 17,000 HEV/PHEV miles on the tusch. Sidenote: For fundraising -- perhaps it can begin with pledges per mile, or EAA Sister Chapters, or State Capitals visited. of: 1-cent a mile from EAA Chapters; a dime an EAA Chapter from EAA Members; a buck a State. Nevada: Las Vegas EVA 3.

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