Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 17:00:50 +0000
The blockbuster Wuling Hongguang Mini EV has helped create an exciting new market for mini electric vehicles in China. In just over 2 years it has sold close to a million units in China. The Mini EV is very popular in the 2nd and 3rd tier Chinese cities and is enabling people who would not […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 19:00:07 +0000
Transport & Environment claims that a surge of electric cars imported from China could spell danger for European automakers.
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:43:51 +0000
While Tesla fans and logistics companies anxiously await deliveries of the first electric Semis, China leads the world in low-emissions trucking. Bloomberg reports that light commercial electric vehicle sales have gone from 1% of market share to 10% in the last two years, and may be a big factor in early onset peak oil demand. […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 18:34:53 +0000
A large reason people were hesitant about the most current version of US electric vehicle subsidies was that it wouldn’t provide funding to vehicle makers who rely on China for minerals used in batteries. Some argued that if we only used battery materials from friendly countries, it would either lead to a slower EV adoption […]
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:46:38 +0000
China’s State Council has approved two AP1000 nuclear reactor units for State Power Investment Corp.’s (SPIC’s) Lianjiang Nuclear Power Plant in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, reactor technology supplier Westinghouse said on Oct. 12. If built, the units will become ninth and tenth reactors based on Westinghouse’s Generation III+ advanced reactor technology in China. Four AP1000 units are […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:17:49 +0000
A new 16-GW hydropower project in China and a 9-GW plant in Indonesia are among several projects being highlighted as part of Global Hydropower Day, being celebrated Oct. 11 as the hydro sector notes the importance of the technology to the world’s power generation. The Baihetan Hydropower Station in China is being developed by Jinsha […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 03:18:33 +0000
The next quadrant chart of sexy vs practical is in place, one on carbon drawdown from our overloaded atmosphere. It complements the ones on electricity and energy storage, and ground, marine and air transportation.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:15:42 +0000
All of us, most of the time, wander around on the surface of the Earth. A small percentage travel across rivers, lakes and oceans in boats of various kinds regularly. A smaller percentage than that get above the ground into the skies. And, of course, the tiniest rounding error on a gnat’s hairy thorax get above the atmosphere. So let’s talk about moving around on the ground in this next edition of sexy/unsexy, practical/impractical.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:00:48 +0000
In Part 1, I gave readers some very quick historical background on how the situation in Xinjiang came to be, and what the UN Human Rights office found in its investigation into the human rights violations. Now that readers have some familiarity of what exactly we’re dealing with, it’s time to explore how this affects […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:00:44 +0000
Since 2017, there have been many allegations of human rights abuses in what China calls the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, known by dissidents as East Turkestan. This disagreement over the region’s name stems from a long history of on-and-off Chinese involvement and control of the region. For the past two millennia, the area has seen […]