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Patented: Rivian's Simultaneous Charging and Power Export, Plus More North Texas Inventive Activity
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (1695+ words) NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION A: Human Necessities 8 B: Performing Operations; Transporting 8 C: Chemistry; Metallurgy 2 E: Fixed Constructions 3 F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 3 G: Physics 40 H: Electricity 35 TOP INVENTORS(NO. OF PATENTS) Manu Kurian (Dallas) 4 Blake Browder (Dallas) 2 Chengcheng Tang (Murphy) 2 Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen) 2 John…...
MP Materials To Build '10X,' a $1.25B Rare Earth Magnet Manufacturing Campus in North Texas
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (1076+ words) MP Materials will invest more than $1.25 billion to develop what it calls "the largest and most strategic U.S. rare earth magnet manufacturing asset in history" north of Fort Worth. [Rendering: MP Materials] Las Vegas-based MP Materials (NYSE: MP) plans to develop…...
Waymo Launches Driverless Robotaxi Service in Dallas
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (755+ words) A Waymo robotaxi operating in one of its other service cities. [Video still: Waymo] For the first time ever, riders in Dallas are now able to summon a totally empty robotaxi and take it for a ride. Waymo, an Alphabet-owned…...
Patented: SC Autosports' Solar Roof for Golf Carts and Other North Texas Inventive Activity
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1659+ words) NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION A: Human Necessities 11 B: Performing Operations; Transporting 19 E: Fixed Constructions 4 F: Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting 9 G: Physics 48 H: Electricity 43 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano) 18 Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas) 15 Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ)…...
$524M Korean-Led Solar Project NW of Austin Breaks Ground—in Dallas
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (416+ words) Primoris is serving as the project's engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor. Operations will be managed by Korea Midland Power and will be based out of San Angelo. Participants in Tuesday's "groundbreaking" included Brad Hise, Renewable Energy SVP at Primoris;…...
Nevoya To Deploy Dozens of Battery Electric Semi-Trucks Between Dallas and Houston
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (848+ words) In what's being called "a major milestone for electric freight," L.A.-based all-electric truckload carrier Nevoya is deploying around 40 Class 8 battery electric trucks on a new Houston-Dallas commercial trucking route. GMA says the effort leverages corporate demand for decarbonized on-road shipping…...
Chopper Swarm Over Downtown Dallas: Verticon Conference Swoops in Friday
11+ mon, 4+ week ago (379+ words) The skies over the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas will be filled with more than 34 helicopters starting at about 10 a.m. Friday, when Vertical Aviation International's annual conference and exposition, Verticon, kicks off. The helicopters will include some of the…...
Robotaxi Rollout: Avride, Hyundai To Partner on Self-Driving Uber Rides in Dallas
11+ mon, 4+ week ago (342+ words) And that future will begin in Dallas. Dallas Innovates first told you about Avride's planned Dallas rollout of robotaxis and delivery robots last October via a partnership with Uber. Avride announced yesterday that the Hyundai/Avride robotaxis "will be first…...