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These trains could carry giant batteries across Colorado and deliver clean energy to Denver

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And, even in areas where renewable energy projects are already online, their output is often heavily curtailed. SunTrain is currently working on a pilot project that would run between Pueblo, Colorado, and Denver. Across the U.S., This clean energy bottleneck stems from the fact that, as demand for renewable energy rises, the U.S.

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Nuro is building a factory and test track in Nevada for its autonomous delivery robots

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Both facilities will be located in Southern Nevada, which in recent years has become a hotbed for manufacturing and testing for the future of transportation. Nuro, which is valued at $5 billion, was founded in 2016 by Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu , two veterans of the Google self-driving car project that would go on to become Waymo.

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Elon Musk has two Las Vegas casinos asking for Boring Company tunnels

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is already looking to dig more tunnels in Las Vegas, Nevada, after it finished excavating the first two under the city’s convention center last month. This week, Wynn Resorts announced that, working with The Boring Company, it had submitted a land-use application for that project.

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Listening to teachers to support students impacted by COVID-19 

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has helped fund more than $55 million over 10 years through a donation match for teachers’ crowdfunding projects on DonorsChoose. From there, teachers requested the learning materials they needed, and we vetted and sent supplies directly to classrooms.

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Giving circles can strengthen collective action. Here’s how. 

Candid

The Latino Giving Circle Network at the Latino Community Foundation , the nations largest network of Latino-led giving circles, recently expanded its grantmaking to include get-out-the-vote investments in California, Arizona, and Nevada. For the first time in their history, theyre working to strengthen and preserve democratic institutions.

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Tesla’s co-founder is teaming up with Specialized to solve the problem of e-bike batteries

The Verge

The Carson City, Nevada-based company was founded by Straubel in 2017 primarily as a recycler of electric car batteries. This is how the partnership will work: Specialized will recover depleted e-bike batteries through its network of retail partners and then ship those batteries to Redwood’s facility in Northern Nevada.

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Tesla will build Cybertruck factory in Austin, Texas

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The company was also considering Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Musk said Tesla would “strongly consider” it for future projects. It will be the company’s fourth factory in the US, following the vehicle factory in California, battery factory in Nevada, and solar factory in New York. It’s going to basically be an ecological paradise.

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