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SpaceX closes in on West Coast Starlink launches with lease for drone ship dock space

Teslarati

Via port authority documents, it sounds like SpaceX is mostly just relocating its West Coast Falcon recovery operations from one half of Port of Los Angeles (San Pedro) to the other (Long Beach). In other words, Pier 16 is a perfect fit for SpaceX’s needs.

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Lucid announces Air production preview event in late September

Teslarati

In terms of range, the Air completed a 445-mile trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco at highway speeds during the MotorTrend review, which confirms Lucid’s high expectations for travel mileage per charge. The Lucid Air Dream Edition R’s first in-depth review reveals the car is a stunner.

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California High Speed Rail Authority Votes to Include $4.5B for High-Speed Train Projects In State Federal Stimulus Funding Application

Green Car Congress

The Board approved a package of dozens of engineering, environmental review, design-build, train control and electrification projects among every section of the 800-mile system. 23 September 2009 Board Meeting Documents. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to formally submit California’s bid by the federal government’s 2 Oct.

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Elon Musk unveils Hyperloop preliminary design study

Green Car Congress

San Francisco and Los Angeles) that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL.would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world? miles (4.0 —Elon Musk. million people each way per year.

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Ongoing market rollout for SAE hydrogen fueling standards

Green Car Congress

Fueling of FCEVs to the SAE J2601 Hydrogen Fueling Standard requires only 3–5 minutes and gives a high state of charge (SOC) equaling a range of 300 miles or more (500 km+). Earlier post.) Source: Jesse Schneider. Click to enlarge. This is on par with gasoline internal combustion vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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2022 Rivian R1T: a real pickup truck makes an impressive debut

Charged EVs

The startup carmaker Rivian was founded a decade ago by RJ Scaringe, but it didn’t go public with its electric pickup truck and SUV until the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show. Rivian started its media drive on off-road trails, covering 60 miles and several hours at elevations of 9,000 to 12,000 feet. The next Tesla?

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

When it comes to advocacy for Plug-Ins, Stefano Paris (below) has been everywhere and anywhere digitally documenting every key event and then sharing his work on the web site he hosts as his contribution to electrifying our transportation. It’s going to change the world of our Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.

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