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Second Tesla Gallery, Service Center Opening This Weekend In Houston

Green Car Reports

After failing to convince the Texas legislature to legalize direct sales (twice), the company is opening a second gallery in Houston this weekend. Like the existing Tesla gallery--also in Houston--the new one will show.

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The First Things You Must Do After Purchasing a New EV

Clean Fleet Report

It is easy to overlook the importance of the legal side of owning a car when you see the open road in front of you. Get a car accident lawyer in Houston, TX , to protect yourself and your finances on the road! Insurance is critical to have; take the time and make the investment now; you will thank yourself later.

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National Academies’ Gulf Research Program awards $10.8M to address systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations

Green Car Congress

University of Houston. The National Academies' Gulf Research Program is an independent, science-based program founded in 2013 as part of legal settlements with the companies involved in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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Kinder Morgan to purchase El Paso for approximately $38B to form largest natural gas pipeline network and largest midstream energy enterprise in North America

Green Car Congress

and its corporate headquarters will remain in Houston, Texas. Evercore Partners and Barclays Capital acted as financial advisors and provided fairness opinions to KMI and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP acted as legal counsel to KMI. The parent company will be named Kinder Morgan, Inc.

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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

Baua Electric

These legal ambiguities are the latest impediment – alongside technical challenges and sagging commodity prices – to America’s plans to produce more of its own lithium and wean the country off foreign supplies, according to interviews with regulators from seven U.S.

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The Tesla Autopilot Excuse: How EV ignorance created the perfect storm for a misinformation nightmare

Teslarati

Just days after the initial crash, Palmer Buck, fire chief for The Woodlands Township Fire Department, told the Houston Chronicle that contrary to some reports in the media, the ill-fated Model S was not ablaze for four hours. This does not mean to say the narrative surrounding the fatal Model S crash in Texas was ironclad, however.

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Volkswagen’s Electrify America supplement discusses ZEV charging investments in disadvantaged California communities

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Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. Earlier this year, Electrify America submitted the plan for the first tranche of spending, directed at 11 cities nationwide—New York, Washington, D.C.,

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