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APRIL 1, 2024

If all goes according to plan, by 2027 Ballard Power Systems will be operating its new fuel cell factory in Texas at the 3-gigawatts level. The post New Texas Fuel Cell Gigafactory Pours More Cold Water On Clean Power Foes appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 8, 2024

A collection of seven technologies for lithium recovery developed by scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been licensed to Element3, a Texas-based company focused on extracting lithium from wastewater produced by oil and gas production.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 7, 2024

The Texas-based solid-state EV battery innovator Solidion plans on accelerating the vehicle electrification movement with new materials and a radical new battery architecture. The post Texas-Based Solid-State EV Battery Startup Lays Out Oil-Killing Plans appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Teslarati

JULY 14, 2022

Transports at Giga Texas are moving over 150 cars per day, Joe Tegtmeyer pointed out in his update from yesterday. Tegtmeyer is one of the drone pilots that fly over Giga Texas and provide daily updates-they’ve been doing this since the early days of the factory’s construction. ” Cathode Plant Construction. .”

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Teslarati

JANUARY 10, 2024

Tesla’s Gigafactory in Texas has been busy since the Cybertruck’s initial delivery event in November, as the automaker continues to ramp up production of the electric pickup. Cybertrucks being loaded onto transports as soon as they arrive at the outbound lot! Production rate seems higher, but hard to quantify.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Air Products and The AES Corporation plan to invest approximately $4 billion to build, own and operate a green hydrogen production facility in Wilbarger County, Texas. The project would create more than 1,300 construction and 115 permanent operations jobs, as well as about 200 transportation and distribution jobs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Texas A&M University researchers have developed a conceptual model to identify systematically the potential health impacts of self-driving vehicles. They identified 32 transportation-related risk factors that affected health and concluded that 17 could negatively impact public health, while eight could have a positive impact.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2022

Hunt Transport Services Inc., We believe autonomous driving technology will help us create the most efficient transportation network in North America, and our collaboration with Waymo Via is a pivotal step towards fulfilling that mission. Hunt completed their first trial runs last year moving freight along I-45 in Texas for one of J.B.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 2, 2023

The city of Austin, and specifically its public transportation agency, made one of the most exciting EV announcements of the past year, while the state of Texas went out there and pushed to […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 27, 2023

It looks like Austin, Texas, is going to get a bit cleaner thanks to its CapMetro regional public transportation provider, which is making progress toward a zero-emissions future for Austin. A big one. […]

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Transportation announced that the National Center for Sustainable Transportation ( NCST ), housed at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), would receive $20 million to lead a group of seven universities studying transportation effects on the environment. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2021

McDermott International, a premier, fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions (ECS) to the energy industry, has joined a consortium of public, private and academic partners collaborating on a US Department of Energy (DOE) project—Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Aurora Innovation and Werner Enterprises, a premier transportation and logistics provider, announced a collaboration and commercial pilot to test and deploy safely autonomous trucks on one of the most commercially active and critical stretches of highway in the US.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Electrofuels innovator Infinium ( earlier post ) has entered into a strategic alliance with US independent energy company Denbury to collaborate on developing ultra-low carbon electrofuels projects in the state of Texas. Infinium electrofuels process. —Chris Kendall, Denbury’s President and CEO.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In recent weeks, Texas residents who have a Tesla Powerwall and solar panels gained the opportunity to be a part of a backup power pilot program, which lets users get money for providing extra electricity back to the state’s […]

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2019

The Texas Department of Transportation is going to create a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) Task Force to become a central point for CAV advancement in Texas. The task force is designed to be a one-stop resource for information and coordination on all ongoing CAV projects, investments and initiatives in Texas.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Tesla Giga Texas is raring to go, as shown by what appears to be Model Y production vehicles waiting for transport beside the factory. Based on photos shared by drone operator Jeff Roberts , Tesla Giga Texas has a little over 100 Model Y production vehicles parked on site. Production Model Ys ready for transport at Giga Texas!

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Austin, Texas-based energy research organization Pecan Street Inc. launched Texas’ first grid-tied vehicle-to-grid (V2G) testing center at its lab in Austin, turning electric vehicles into a dispatchable load shaving tool for the municipally-owned electric utility, Austin Energy.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 17, 2023

Tesla got a big win in Texas yesterday as the Lone Star State said it would require companies to include the automaker’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) connector in its electric vehicle charging stations if they want to be eligible for federal funding. Reuters initially reported the story. I’d love to chat!

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2023

Tesla definitely appears to be ramping the production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas. As could be seen in images that were recently captured by longtime Giga Texas watcher Joe Tegtmeyer , however, Tesla’s latest Cybertrucks are a bit different. They are in the outbound transportation lot at Giga Texas if that helps any!

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 10, 2022

Aside from other issues, setting up Tesla’s new global headquarters in Texas was always weird since Texas has always had anti-Tesla laws in place that prevent easy, convenient in-store sales for Tesla buyers.

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Teslarati

MARCH 17, 2022

Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas is about to start its operations, and when it does, it would be one of the United States’ most ambitious vehicle production facilities. The arrival of Tesla in Texas and the influx of companies moving into the state will likely trigger an increase in the number of people residing in cities like Austin.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 28, 2021

Tesla welcomed the University of Texas at Austin to its new gigafactory in Texas today. Beth Beagles, Director of Corporate Relations at the University of Texas at Austin, shared a photo on LinkedIn with the following caption: “A best in class tour of a best in class facility, thanks to Omead Afshar.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 23, 2023

Tesla announced a week ago that Giga Texas (its large factory just outside of Austin, Texas) had produced 10 million of the company’s new 4680 battery cells. That sounds like a lot! Well, let’s be honest, that is a lot! However, it’s probably not as many as you’d think on the surface. You have to […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 24, 2023

continued] The post Texas DPS Is Less Amused With The “Model Y Superheavy” Than We Are appeared first on CleanTechnica. Recently, videos of a Tesla Model Y doing something insane have been popping up on social media. We’ve seen plenty.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2023

With this funding, industry and DOE national laboratories will partner to advance lab-developed clean transportation technologies towards commercialization in technology areas, including vehicle electrification, batteries, materials, decarbonized off-road vehicles, and energy efficient mobility systems.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 15, 2021

The Tesla Owners Club of Austin is keeping everyone updated with the progress of Tesla’s newest manufacturing site in Texas, Giga Texas. The squad is made up of four drone pilots who fly their drones with cameras over the Giga Texas construction […].

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Teslarati

JUNE 21, 2022

In a new plan from the Texas Department of Transportation, the state is setting aside $408 million for electric vehicle charging infrastructure over the next five years. Since Tesla moved its headquarters to Texas late last year, the state has made strides in EV adoption. Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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Teslarati

JUNE 30, 2023

Some EV charger makers and operators in Texas have opposed the Lone Star state’s Tesla NACS mandate. According to a document seen by Reuters , a group of EV charging firms claims that Texas’ Tesla NACS mandate is premature. Washington State followed in Texas’ footsteps, requiring Tesla NACS compatibility. .

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 14, 2022

Tesla recently gave representatives from Austin-based universities a tour of Giga Texas. The University of Texas–Austin’s McCombs School of Business shared a post on LinkedIn giving a “Texas-sized thank you” to Tesla for welcoming Dean Lillian Mills and the University of Texas at Austin President Jay Hartzell.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 30, 2023

Siemens has officially opened the doors to its newest EV charging production facility in Carrollton, Texas, where it will produce EV chargers targeted for the American market. Siemens had just announced back December 2022 that it was retrofitting an 80,000 square foot factory in Carrollton.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 4, 2022

Tesla shared a video on its Instagram page of employees handing out ice cream from a Cybertruck to fellow employees working on construction at Giga Texas. Tesla posted the comment, “Once upon a time at Giga Texas,” and now everyone wants ice cream. View this post on Instagram A post […].

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Teslarati

JANUARY 12, 2022

Recent drone flyovers at the Gigafactory Texas site have revealed that Tesla is currently receiving what appears to be a new batch of Giga Press parts. If the new shipments are for the Model Y’s 6,000-ton die-casting machines, it would suggest that Giga Texas would soon have four of the house-sized contraptions. This makes four.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 29, 2023

… First, Texas decided to not allow people to buy Teslas in the state. It’s a long and complicated story, but the funny thing is that you still can’t go into a Tesla store and buy a Tesla in Texas, yet Tesla’s global headquarters is now located there and “Giga Texas” is set […]

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Texas State Legislature is considering levying a tax against EV owners to fund road upkeep and improvement, and EV owners are on board. However, that reduced cost is now being challenged by a tax proposed by Texas State Legislature members that would either tax EV owners per mile driven or yearly with a flat fee.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Tesla Model Y castings are beginning to stack up in impressive numbers at the automaker’s Giga Texas plant just outside of Austin. Tesla Giga Texas is slated to begin production later this year, but that is not halting the automaker from starting the pre-production processes of vehicle manufacturing. Credit: @JoeTegtmeyer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2021

El Paso Electric (EPE) has filed its Transportation Electrification Plan (TEP) with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission ( NMPRC ) for approval. EPE’s TEP includes: A Customer Outreach Program to improve familiarity and awareness of EVs, and the benefits of transportation electrification.

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