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Elon Musk responds to Tesla-BYD 2023 Q4 production comparison

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has responded to the comparisons being drawn by various media outlets regarding his company and high-powered Chinese rival BYD, which outpaced Musk’s company in terms of production of electric vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2023. He’s definitely right.

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Global Carbon Project: Global carbon emissions growth slows, but hits record high

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Driven by rising natural gas and oil consumption, levels of CO 2 are expected to hit 37 billion metric tons this year, according to new estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP), an initiative led by Stanford University scientist Rob Jackson. and China account for more than half of all carbon dioxide emissions globally.

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Comment on Tesla regains global BEV crown over BYD in Q1 by John Hanna

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BYD for the global BEV "crown". No matter who makes the most BEVs in the coming years, you won't find Musk focussed on any comparisons as between BEV-makers. and its shareholders, but you won't find the money element in any part of his well known master plan for Tesla, and the EVolution.) All this energy devoted to Tesla v.

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EPIC index finds air pollution reduces global life expectancy by 1.8 years; single greatest threat to human health

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Fossil fuel-driven particulate air pollution cuts global average life expectancy by 1.8 The results from these studies are then combined with hyper-localized, global particulate matter measurements. Seventy-five percent of the global population, or 5.5 years, making it the greatest global threat to human health.

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Yamaha Joins Global Move to Battery Swaps for E-bikes

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E-bikes are today a growing component of the global transition away from fossil fuels—possibly more than the car-and-truck-focused sustainability crowd appreciates. E-bikes’ rapid growth in recent years stems in part from their simple solution to the range issue that big, hulking cars typically don’t offer.

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NREL: Untapped potential exists for blending hydropower, floating PV

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For comparison, global final electricity consumption was just over 22,300 terawatt-hours in 2018, the most recent year for which statistics are available, according to the International Energy Agency. terawatts of potential power a year from the solar PV systems alone, or about 10,600?terawatt-hours 2020.08.080.

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The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain

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To test the capabilities of our model, five of the laboratories involved in the RT-X collaboration each tested it in a head-to-head comparison against the best control system they had developed independently for their own robot. If the model instead sees a low-cost WidowX hobbyist arm , the model moves it accordingly.

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