Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2010

Li-ion manufacturer Valence Technology has been selected as the preferred residential/community battery technology provider for the “Smart Grid Community of the Future,” the first smart-grid solar-powered residential development in Texas, the Houston-area master planned community of Discovery at Spring Trails. Tags: Brief.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2010

Just mosey on over to the Republic of Texas where two of America’s biggest polluting oil companies are ponying up millions of dollars to pay for an initiative on the California ballot that would suspend our state’s Global Warming Solutions act, AB 32. They want to take the money and run.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2010

announced its second expansion of The EV Project, resulting in a charging infrastructure network in sixteen cities located in six states—Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Tennessee and Texas—as well as the District of Columbia. Tags: Brief. ECOtality, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

ActaCell, a Li-ion battery spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin, was selected by the state of Texas, through the Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (CenTex RCIC), to be awarded investment by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF).

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 24, 2023

So it's a pretty rare bird, yet the price tag is just $14,900. The mileage is 168,000 and this Texas-based car once lived in California. It's number 1,842 of 1,953 units made -- only 500 of which made it to our shores. This car has an automatic transmission and Cocoa Brown interior. The A/C works and so does the convertible top.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2010

Parish Unit 7 in Thompsons, Texas. Enhanced oil recovery sequestration in one of the Texas Gulf Coast oilfields near the Parish plant. Tags: Brief. NRG will construct a 60 megawatt carbon capture demonstration facility at the company’s W.A. Ramgen’s advanced carbon dioxide compression system.

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Teslarati

APRIL 16, 2023

Tesla China still holds the record for the fastest gigafactory made compared to Giga Berlin and Giga Texas. Tesla’s compact electric vehicle is expected to have a competitive price tag between $25,000 to $30,000. Giga Shanghai was entirely built in just nine months. That production line,” he elaborated.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 10, 2007

The Texas House of Representatives votes in favor of increased gasoline consumption. I should add that Texas, in the form of Austin Energy's Plug-in Partners effort, shows us the right direction to head, promoting plug-in hybrids (and electric cars) to use the electrical grid to replace gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

Daimler will bring its car2go mobility concept ( earlier post ) to the US in a pilot phase to start this fall in Austin, Texas with an initial fleet of about 200 smart fortwo mhd vehicles with start/stop functionality. Tags: Car Sharing City car. Two smart2go units in Austin. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Air Products plans to construct a new 180-mile long pipeline connecting its existing Louisiana and Texas hydrogen pipeline systems, creating the world’s largest hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network. Once complete, Air Products’ hydrogen pipeline supply network will stretch from the Houston Ship Channel in Texas to New Orleans, La.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2010

Austin, Texas-based KLD Energy Technologies, developers of a high-performance electric motor system ( earlier post ), has raised $6 million from private investors. KLD has raised a total of $12 million over the last year from Central Texas-based private investors and Austin-based venture capital firm Daylight Partners. Statesman.com.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Daimler’s car2go mobility program has reached 10,000 registered members in its first North American city, Austin, Texas, after just more than four months since its public launch on 21 May 2010. Business customers include the City of Austin, LIVESTRONG, downtown real estate firm urbanspace, GSD&M and the State of Texas.

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EV Connect

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Friendly Chevrolet, in Dallas, Texas, invested heavily in EV Charging infrastructure and after only 6 months in operation, is earning around $60,000/month from public charging. Keep Costs Manageable The price tag of installing EV charging stations can be a hurdle for auto dealerships, but there are options to lower this barrier.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

DOT) on the train operated by Amtrak with state support from both Oklahoma and Texas. The biodiesel blend is provided by a Texas-based vendor. Tags: Brief. The trial has received support on fuel and engine component evaluation from Chevron Oronite. ( A hat-tip to R.M.! ).

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Green Cars News

MAY 6, 2010

A new mobility programme in Austin, Texas, that aims to reduce emissions in one of the fastest growing urban areas in the USA, has stepped up its efforts by signing a new partnership with a real estate firm. Tags: Green cars Green credentials Latest news Austin car sharing car sharing program Car2go Urbanspace.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Tags: Brief. Vision’s heavy-duty vehicles will be tested to evaluate their suitability for short distance drayage and terminal operations. Vision trucks will be put into service and evaluated by Cal Cartage and TTSI, two trucking companies that operate at the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Technip has been awarded two lump sum contracts by Valero Refining Company and Diamond Shamrock Refining Company (both part of the Valero group) for two hydrogen plants at their refineries in Memphis, Tennessee and McKee, Texas. Tags: Brief. The project is scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2012.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

Austin, Texas; and the New York City metropolitan area later this year. Volts are expected to arrive at dealerships in Michigan, New Jersey, Connecticut, as well as the balance of Texas and New York in the first quarter of 2011. Tags: Electric (Battery) Hybrids. Pricing has not been announced.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2010

urbanspace has professional affiliations with the Real Estate Council of Austin, the Urban Land Institute, Austin Board of Realtors, Texas Association of Realtors, and the National Association of Realtors. urbanspace is one of the first car2go partners in Austin, Texas. Tags: Brief.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

Istanbul Technical University/IEEE “When the painted tag receives the radio frequency (RF) signals, it reflects some of the signals to establish an up-link with the smart phone reader while the smart phone establishes a down-link with the tag,” the researchers wrote in their paper.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2010

Toshiba Corporation will expand manufacturing capacity at its plant in Houston, Texas for production of the high-performance drive motors for HEV, PHEV and EV applications. Toshiba will begin construction for the expanded capacity in January 2011 in Houston, Texas, on the site of Toshiba International Corporation.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2009

The six awards will promote collaborative long-term analysis and planning for the Eastern, Western and Texas electricity interconnections, which will help states, utilities, grid operators, and others prepare for future growth in energy demand, renewable energy sources, and Smart Grid technologies. Texas Interconnection.

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Teslarati

JULY 5, 2021

Two of those engines (RB3 and RB4) featured Raptor Boost labels and were likely the first engines of their kind to complete qualification testing in McGregor, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2010

In January 2011 , LEAF will debut in Texas and Hawaii. Tags: Brief. In California, the LEAF is eligible for an up to $5,000 CVRP rebate, bringing the price down to close to $20,000. The LEAF will roll out in December in California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Tennessee. The company currently has 17,000 reservations for the LEAF.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

ActaCell, a spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin ( earlier post ), has engaged AVL to test ActaCell’s lithium-ion battery technology in a number of independent, simulated settings to determine viability and efficiency for commercialization purposes. Tags: Brief. To date, ActaCell has received $6.1 million in funding.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products, operating primarily in the South Central, Southwestern and Western regions of the United States. Tags: Brief. Vehicles at the event were provided by Boardwalk Volkswagen, Sam Pack’s Five Star Ford and Sewell GMC. Alon USA Energy, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2010

A collision between the towing vessel Dixie Vengeance and the two barges it was pushing, and the 807-foot oil tank ship Eagle Otome in the Port of Port Arthur, Texas, resulted in damage in the vicinity of the number one starboard tank on the Eagle Otome, which was reported to be loaded with crude oil. Tags: Brief. million liters).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2010

a Massachusetts company developing an innovative compressed air energy storage system, has signed an agreement with ConocoPhillips to develop compressed air energy storage (CAES) projects, beginning with a pilot project in Texas, using General Compression’s Advanced Energy Storage (GCAES) technology. Tags: Brief. The GCAES system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Coulomb’s ChargePoint America program will provide nearly 5,000 charging stations in nine regions in the United States: Austin, Texas, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Fla., Tags: Brief. Installation of the ChargePoint station was done by Coulomb distributor Shocking Solutions. Sacramento, Calif., and Washington DC.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2010

Parish Generating Station located in Thompsons, Texas. The University of Texas will contribute their expertise to the project by developing and testing an advanced solvent used to capture the carbon dioxide. The University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology will provide expertise with design of carbon management and plant monitoring.

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Teslarati

APRIL 26, 2022

Deep Blue paint costs an extra $1,000, Solid Black is an additional $1,500, and Red will add $2,000 to the base Model Y LR’s price tag. Tesla’s Elon Musk meets with delegation from Indonesia at Giga Texas to discuss potential nickel deal. Pearl White and Midnight Silver color options are free for Model Y orders.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

In addition, as part of its on-going acreage build strategy, Shell has acquired ~250,000 net acres (1,000 square kilometers) of mineral rights in the Eagle Ford shale play, in South Texas, in 2010. Tags: Brief. These undeveloped acreage positions are in the liquids-rich window of the Eagle Ford play. million acres.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

States such as Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas, where sugarcane can be grown, are prime locations for building sugarcane ethanol refineries, Clean Energy says. Tags: Brief. This will provide greater stability in profit margins, according to Clean Energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Terrabon is the developer of a carboxylic acid fermentation platform licensed from Texas A&M University for the conversion of biomass to fuel intermediates that can then be upgraded into industrial chemicals and renewable gasoline. Tags: Biogasoline Fuels. Click to enlarge. Waste Management, Inc. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Comparative tests with procedures that calculate traffic density on the basis of stationary toll tag readers, such as those used for congestion charges, have shown that the Siemens system provides reliable data even if only a few drivers have their cell phones switched on.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Ford announced two partnerships with utilities in Texas— Austin Energy in Austin and Centerpoint Energy in Houston—to prepare those two regions for electric vehicles. An easy charging station permitting process is considered one of the keys to electric vehicle acceptance in the Austin area, Texas and across the country.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The MOU grew out of Stelmach’s missions to Texas in 2008 and 2009, where he met with Texas Gov. Tags: Brief. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology. The collaboration will tackle issues surrounding the production of petrochemicals from Alberta’s oil sands.

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