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Tesla Solar Roof price hikes lead to $6 million settlement

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Tesla has reached an agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit brought forth by Solar Roof customers who were faced with higher prices for installations in 2021. The settlement amounted to a bit over $6 million, as per a document from the United States District Court in San Francisco.

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Elon Musk unveils Hyperloop preliminary design study

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Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk released the preliminary design study for what he call “The Hyperloop”—a new high-speed electric transportation system targeted for the the specific case of high-traffic city pairs (e.g., San Francisco and Los Angeles) that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart.

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Electrify America’s flagship urban EV charging station is indoors

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Located in San Francisco’s South Market neighborhood, two blocks from the Bay Bridge, the new “flagship” site has 20 chargers providing up to 350 kw of power, according to Electrify America press release. It’s open 24/7 with around-the-clock monitoring and security, according to Electrify America.

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NREL and Electric Hydrogen partner to develop high-performance electrolyzer components

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million project will diagnose sources of degradation in commercial electrolysis cells and will validate advanced designs that use higher stack currents. In June, Electric Hydrogen closed a $24-million Series A financing to support continued product development and expansion of its operations in the Greater Boston and San Francisco Bay areas.

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Michigan State University introduces electric autonomous bus through collaboration with state, Karsan and ADASTEC

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Data that MSU plans to collect and analyze from the bus includes V2I (vehicle to infrastructure) communication technologies as well as experiential learning from persons with disabilities to inform future design considerations. Hope, which houses the largest solar carport array in North America. The bus’s 2.5-mile

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. San Jose, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif.

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Volkswagen and Audi launch sustainability programs for US introduction of e-Golf BEV and A3 e-tron PHEV; carbon offsets with 3Degrees and solar energy

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A six-time winner of the DOE/EPA Green Power Supplier of the Year Award and certified B Corporation, 3Degrees is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with regional offices throughout the US. SunPower: residential solar with energy storage. Installation costs will be extra.

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