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TuSimple and Hillwood join forces on autonomous trucking initiative at AllianceTexas MIZ

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Commercial real estate developer Hillwood announced that TuSimple, a self-driving technology company with a focus on heavy-duty trucks ( earlier post ), has secured property in AllianceTexas’ Mobility Innovation Zone (MIZ) in north Fort Worth. The new facility will house autonomous truck operations, service and administrative support.

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SwRI-led team achieves 20% improvement in vehicle fuel efficiency with connectivity, automation; ARPA-E NEXTCAR

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Onboard sensing combined with data from vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technologies provided the information needed to predict driving environments and develop new technologies.

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Clean Energy expands CNG fueling agreements with new and existing USPS contract-carrier fleets

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They will fuel 20 new CNG trucks out of Clean Energy’s Dallas-Fort Worth Station. Our carriers live in the very same communities we serve, and we continue to look for ways to reduce our impact on the environment. The United States Postal Service takes our sustainability goals very seriously.

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New “50 by 50” Commission seeks to halve US transportation energy use by 2050

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Betsy Price, Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas; Gil Quiniones, President & CEO, New York Power Authority; Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council; Dan Turton, Vice President, North America Public Policy, General Motors; Greg White, Executive Director, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; and. Non-road (e.g.,

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NASA, Uber to explore safety, efficiency of future urban airspace

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Artist’s conception of an on-demand air-mobility future in which different aircraft—vertical takeoff, traditional takeoff, crewed, uncrewed—safely perform a variety of daily missions in rural to urban environments. Credits: NASA/Advanced Concepts Laboratory.

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

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Proving grounds offer controlled environments on research campuses where the complete life-cycle development of AVs can be assessed and include the Texas A&M University System RELLIS Campus, which includes Texas A&M’s Proving Grounds, University of Texas at Austin Campus, and the SwRI Campus in San Antonio.

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ExxonMobil doubles Permian Basin resources to 6B barrels via acquisitions

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Exxon Mobil Corporation will more than double its Permian Basin resource to 6 billion barrels of oil equivalent through the acquisition of companies owned by the Bass family of Fort Worth, Texas, with an estimated resource of 3.4 ExxonMobil will make an upfront payment of $5.6 growth area for onshore oil production.