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UT El Paso-led team designs cactus-inspired low-cost, efficient water-splitting catalyst

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Researchers led by engineers at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have proposed a low-cost, cactus-inspired nickel-based material to help split water more cheaply and efficiently. —Navid Attarzadeh Attarzadeh wondered what if they designed a 3D nickel-based catalyst in the shape of the prickly pear cactus?

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Werner piloting Aurora’s autonomous trucks on 600-mile route in Texas

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Starting this week, Aurora Driver-powered trucks are hauling loads between Fort Worth and El Paso on behalf of Werner. Introducing an autonomous route between Fort Worth and El Paso allows Werner to move freight seamlessly and reliably on a subset of one of its most voluminous lanes.

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Researchers achieve highest specific capacitance of 638 F g-1 using covalent triazine-based framework on nanostructured spherical carbon

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Researchers from the University of Bialystok (Poland), the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and colleagues have achieved the highest specific capacitance value reported of 638 F g −1 in aqueous acidic solutions by combining spherical carbon nanostructures with covalent triazine-based frameworks.

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Texas Automated Vehicle Proving Ground Partnership forms; applying for national designation

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El Paso Area — Tornillo/Guadalupe Port of Entry. The Texas AV Proving Ground Partnership is also applying for USDOT designation as a national proving ground. Designated facilities will open for testing by 1 January2018. Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington Area — UTA campus, Arlington streets, I-30 corridor and Managed Lanes.

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Tesla supplier Pegatron is building a parts plant in Texas

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Recent reports have indicated that Taiwan’s Pegatron has selected a site in El Paso, Texas, for an upcoming production facility that would provide parts for American electric car maker Tesla. El Paso is an interesting choice for a site that would likely support Tesla, considering it is over 500 miles away from Travis County. .

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TeraWatt has designs on offering juice EV vans want

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You wish to have to be spaced out plethora the place if anyone in point of fact needs to journey from Lengthy Seaside to El Paso, they may be able to do this with the era to be had. The post TeraWatt has designs on offering juice EV vans want appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. Some mixture of each?

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TeraWatt and New Mexico DOT secure $64-million grant to deploy heavy-duty EV charging along I-10 corridor – Charged EVs

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TeraWatt announced plans to build heavy-duty shared charging infrastructure along the I-10 corridor in 2022, and was competitively selected by NMDOT to design, build, operate and own the two charging centers.