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New OnStar app shows cost of Volt charging

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OnStar is testing a smartphone app that tells Chevrolet Volt owners how much it costs to charge their battery and compares their Volt’s energy use with the total energy consumed in their home by day, month or year. Based on electricity rates, the data is broken down to show the cost of both total energy usage and Volt charging energy use.

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SpaceX filing shows plans for massive building in Bastrop County

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SpaceX recently filed for a massive building in Bastrop County, Texas which is just east of Austin. The estimated cost of the project is $43 million and the building is expected to be completed by July 2023. We don’t know.

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Goal!

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As stated at the opening press conference by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn in January, 2006, “ Plug-in hybrids represent a real near-term solution to America’s over-reliance on foreign oil imports and energy prices that escalate the cost of everything and threaten the very economic life of our nation,” “The technology exists today ,” Wynn says.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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that substantially reduce costs of the motor. the cost of wind turbines and electric vehicles by developing a. potential to substantially reduce the costs of an electric. Electric Vehicle: Thermal Batteries for Electric Vehicles The University of Texas at Austin (UTA) will lead the research. Pacific Northwest. Arlington).

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Opinion: Tesla and India is the right thing at the wrong time

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Any person with any sort of knowledge about India and cars knows that it is an expensive place to own one, especially if it was not built there. Getting cars from outside of India into the country doubles the cost of the vehicle on most occasions due to import duties. However, there were still hoops to jump through.

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Flash Drive: 2025 Kia K4

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Clean Fleet Report was invited to Austin, Texas , to drive the K4 through rolling hills, on freeways and in city traffic. non-turbocharged engine and the IVT (Kia engineers take on the continuously variable transmission), which offers better fuel economy of the two models we tested in and around Austin. Performance was about 8.1

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GAF Energy’s new Texas factory is about to make a lot of nailable solar shingles

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Its 450,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Georgetown, north of Austin, was officially opened last week in a ribbon-cutting ceremony. GAF Energy told Electrek in 2022 that Timberline Solar is about half the cost of a Tesla solar roof and is cost-competitive with rack-mounted solar systems. Get started here.

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