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A First Ride In The Navier N30 Electric “Flying” Boat

October 27, 2024 admin AUSTIN, boats, clean transport, electric boats, navier, texas

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:08:47 +0000

Electrifying boats is no small challenge, but thanks to years of consistent advancements in electric motors, onboard control systems paired with hydrofoil technology stemming from the America’s Cup racing series and more, the dream is coming closer to reality. One company pushing the envelope in that space is Navier Boats. … [continued]

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A Deep Dive Into Pirelli’s Journey To A More Sustainable Tire

October 26, 2024 admin AUSTIN, claudio zanardo, clean transport, Electric vehicles, f1, formula 1, Fossil Fuels, green economy, Manufacturing, Oil, pirelli, pirelli p zero, pirelli scorpion xtm, texas, tires

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:40:02 +0000

Pirelli is perhaps best known for racing tires and the high performance consumer products built using that technology, the P Zero lineup. The company brought CleanTechnica out to Austin, Texas, ahead of the Austin Grand Prix to get a firsthand look at its sustainability efforts as it continues the transition … [continued]

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Uber & Waymo Expand Partnership to Bring Autonomous Ride-Hailing to Austin & Atlanta

September 18, 2024 admin ATLANTA, AUSTIN, autonomous vehicles, clean transport, consumer technology, Electric vehicles, Georgia, robotaxis, texas, Uber, waymo

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:20:29 +0000

Regular crashes, injuries, and even fatalities plague the traffic sector, highlighting the potential benefits of self-driving cars. When my daughters and I decided to take a Waymo to get to the museum across the city from us in San Francisco, we had no idea how safe we would or wouldn’t … [continued]

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GM Keeps Its Promise As Cruise Arrives In Austin

December 30, 2022 admin AUSTIN, autonomous cars, autonomous vehicles, cars, clean transport, Cruise, electric cars, Electric vehicles, gm, robotaxis, tesla

Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:30:32 +0000

GM’s Robotaxi Service Starts Work in Tesla’s Back Yard

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Renewables Ride To The Rescue As Texas Bakes Under Withering Heat

June 16, 2022 admin AUSTIN, clean power, distributed energy resources, electric pickup trucks, Energy, ford motor company, renewable energy, Renewables, Solar energy, texas, texas extreme weather, texas solar energy, texas wind farms, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:06:15 +0000

Texas lays clean power doubts to rest as its wind and solar industries grow, and renewables rise to keep the lights on during the latest heat wave.

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Tesla Gave Austin-Based University’s Staff A Tour Of Giga Texas

April 14, 2022 admin AUSTIN, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, tesla, tesla factories, tesla giga texas, tesla gigafactories, texas, university of texas

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 05:30:47 +0000

The University of Texas–Austin’s McCombs School of Business recently 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 to Tesla’s newest factory. The university wrote, “It was a pleasure getting a behind-the-scenes look at production with our […]

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What We Lost When We Lost Daniel Johnston

September 12, 2019 admin art brut, AUSTIN, daniel johnston, grunge, indie rock, kurt cobain, music in memoriam, outsider art, texas, the devil and daniel johnston

Credit to Author: Hilary Pollack| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 20:50:52 +0000

The songwriter brought outsider sensibilities into his music, childlike weirdness into his art, and an earnestness that we desperately needed into the world at large.

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A Coffee Company Fooled the Internet With a ‘Construction Guy’ Fake Influencer

June 18, 2019 admin AUSTIN, cuvée, food news, influencers, instagram influencers

Credit to Author: Bettina Makalintal| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:53:02 +0000

The Austin construction worker who went viral on Instagram turned out to be a marketing campaign for Cuvée Coffee.