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Samsung SDI considers building battery factory near Rivian in Normal, IL

Teslarati

plant has Fort Worth, TX as frontrunner. Bloomington-Normal’s chief of the Economic Development Council, Patrick Hoban, seems confident that the town can supply the talent to operate Rivian and Samsung SDI’s factories. Our labor shed in Bloomington-Normal is 50 miles. That decision has not been made.

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App-based mobile gas station Booster Fuels raises $20M in Series B

Green Car Congress

Booster has become a highly sought-after perk at more than 300 large employers including Cisco, Oracle, Gilead, eBay, PepsiCo, Facebook, as well as most of the Fortune 100 companies based in Booster’s two current service regions: the Dallas-Fort Worth and San Francisco Bay areas. —Frank Mycroft, CEO, Booster Fuels.

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

Cars That Think

We carried out our first flight demonstration on 11 October 2022, when we flew a Bell 407GXi helicopter (supplied by consortium member Bell Textron) as a stand-in for a future electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle, or eVTOL. As the helicopter was preparing to take off from Fort Worth for the first flight, at around 2 p.m.

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TransCanada receives final key permit for Gulf Coast Project pipeline; construction set to begin this summer

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TransCanada Corporation has received the final of three key permits needed from the US Army Corps of Engineers in order to advance the 485-mile (780-kilometer) Gulf Coast Project. The pipeline will transport growing supplies of US crude oil to meet refinery demand in Texas. Earlier post.)

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