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Tesla begins inviting 15,000 guests to ‘Cyber Rodeo’ at Gigafactory Texas

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Tesla has officially started inviting the 15,000 guests to its “Cyber Rodeo” event at Gigafactory Texas on April 7, as CEO Elon Musk published a photo of a virtual invitation to the event last night. Tesla plans to hold the event on April 7 at 4 pm at its Gigafactory Texas facility. Credit: Joe Tegtmeyer/YouTube.

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Joe Tegtmeyer Talks Tesla Solar Housing, Tesla Giga Texas Site Map, & New Giga Texas Property Purchase

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Joe Tegtmeyer, who is a member of the Tesla Giga Texas Quad Squad of drone operators that document the daily progress of Giga Texas, has been documenting his thoughts along with daily progress at the Giga Texas site on YouTube. The two videos below are from July 10 and July 12. In the first video, […].

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GM and OnStar sign on as official Pecan Street partners; studying EV services and smart grid interaction

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Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. Chevrolet made 100 Chevrolet Volts available for purchase on a priority basis last September to residents participating the Pecan Street Inc.’s s demonstration project, which now has the nation’s highest residential concentration of electric-drive vehicles in place.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The project will deploy 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles and install 153 alternative fueling and electric vehicle charging stations throughout the Chicago region. The initiative also includes garbage trucks, also known as refuse collection vehicles. Total DOE award: $14,999,927.

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Profile: Li-ion Battery and Pack Supplier Valence Technology

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Founded in 1989, and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Valence has facilities in Nevada, China and Northern Ireland. Smith Electric Vehicles. One of Valence’s most prominent commercial vehicle customers is Smith Electric Vehicles. In the UK, electric vehicles are exempt from London’s £8/day congestion charge.

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Pike Research says lack of technical standards could hinder utilities’ readiness for EVs; forecasts $5.1B in spending from 2010-2015 on EV IT systems

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However, according to a recent report from Pike Research, “Electric Vehicle Information Technology Systems”, many utilities could be unprepared to deal with the impact of EVs on the electrical grid, due to a lack of standards for sharing information between utilities and external systems. —senior analyst John Gartner.

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

Members of the Denver Electric Vehicle Council tour the Xcel Energy Cherokee power plant. David McNeil first joined the Denver Electric Vehicle Council (DEVC) , a chapter of the Electric Auto Association, soon after its founding in 1974, but he’s never owned a Tesla, a Chevrolet Bolt, or any other likely suspects.