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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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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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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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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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Rivian Electric Van Begins Delivering Amazon Packages In Oklahoma

InsideEVs

Tulsa is the third American city where the Rivian van is seeing active duty.

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Magellan Midstream Partners expand E15 services

Green Car Congress

Growth Energy reports that Magellan Midstream Partners, the Tulsa, Okla.-based based transportation, storage, and distribution company, is now offering blending services for E15—a fuel with 15 percent ethanol—throughout their midcontinent terminal system. Magellan owns the longest refined petroleum product pipeline system in the country.

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The US’s largest battery-grade lithium refinery will be in Oklahoma

Baua Electric

The refinery will be in Southside Industrial Park in Muskogee, Oklahoma, southeast of Tulsa, and is expected to be capable of producing up to 50,000 metric tonnes of battery-grade lithium annually. Stardust Power , a lithium refiner supplying the EV sector, is going to build the US’s largest battery-grade lithium refinery in Oklahoma.