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Audi E-Tron tows GM EV1 500 miles: Reality check about EV range

Green Car Reports

An E-tron towed a trailer containing a General Motors EV1—the first modern electric car—from Tulsa Tech in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the Fully Charged Live electric-car event at Circuit of the. Audi recently showed off that capability with a very special payload.

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Amazon’s Rivian van begins delivering packages in its third U.S. city

Teslarati

The e-commerce giant announced earlier today that it began delivering packages in Tulsa, Oklahoma, joining Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, as the only U.S. Now, the Amazon-Rivian vans are in the middle of the United States in Tulsa, Oklahoma. cities to have packages delivered by the all-electric Rivian delivery vans.

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Junkyard Find: 2006 Mazda Mazdaspeed6

The Truth About Cars

Here's one of the handful that made it out of dealerships, found in a self-service boneyard in Tulsa, Oklahoma a few months back. As it turned out, very few car shoppers felt the need to own a Mazdaspeed6, and it got the axe after just two model years.

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Is the first fossil-free jet fuel made from CO2 viable? The US Air Force thinks so

Electrek

Berkeley, California-based carbon transformation company Twelve and Tulsa-based Emerging Fuels Technology (EFT) today announced that they have produced the first fossil-free jet fuel from carbon dioxide using an electrochemical process. The project received funding from the US Air Force.

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Canoo shares renderings of manufacturing campus concept in Oklahoma

Electrek

This “mega microfactory,” as Canoo is calling it, is scheduled to open in 2023 and will bring more than 2,000 jobs to the Tulsa area. In a tweet today, EV manufacturer Canoo unveiled a one-minute video showing computer-generated renderings of what its future manufacturing campus may look like in Oklahoma.

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Report: Tesla homing in on Austin for Cybertruck Terafactory

Green Car Reports

Both Austin and Tulsa, Oklahoma, are considered finalists for the massive "Terafactory", which will build the Cybertruck pickup truck and Model Y crossover. Tesla is leaning toward Austin, Texas, as the site for its second United States car factory, according to a Bloomberg report published Tuesday.

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Study finds 2008 recession contributed to increase in age of US LDV fleet, slowing of emission reductions

Green Car Congress

In the study, the authors used collected on-road emission measurements from sites in three western United States cities—Denver, Los Angeles and Tulsa—to highlight some of the changes in the on-road fleet’s age distribution and to estimate the implications on the fleet’s emissions. —Bishop and Stedman (2014).

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