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China’s EV market hits its stride with 1-in-3 sales being electrified

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Chinese electric vehicle sales have hit 31 percent of the overall market, with 25 percent being pure EVs, a substantial growth year-over-year. In raw numbers, over 403,000 new electrified vehicles hit the Chinese market in May, growing 109 percent compared to the same month in 2021. What do you think of the article?

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BYD says report that Tesla won't extend battery supply partnership with it untrue

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Tesla first used BYD's 10 GWh batteries last year for its low-end models in Europe, according to the report. Earlier this year, Tesla did not request the additional supply of BYD batteries for the standard, low-cost trim version of the Model 3 after its contract to supply them expired, the report said, citing industry sources.

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LIVE BLOG: Tesla Q1 2024 earnings call

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I will be updating this article in real-time, so please keep refreshing the page to view the latest updates on this story. Low cost, simple, and it just works. The analyst asked a follow-up question about Chinese competitors, which could copy Tesla’s vehicles. Tesla also posted $1.2

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Oversold Lithium could be about to rally

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NYSE:ALB) and Orocobre Ltd (ASX:ORE) received a severe hammering in March after Morgan Stanley forecast that Chilean low cost brine producers could add as much as 200kt per year by 2025, while expansion of China’s and Australia’s hard-rock mines could pump in another half a million metric tonnes over the timeframe.

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China puts its electric vehicles on center stage - China automotive news

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The battery-powered cars that Chinese companies are showing are intended to be much less expensive than those planned by big foreign companies. Chinese auto makers also showed other types of "new energy" vehicles, including regular gasoline-electric hybrids to compete with Toyota Motor Corp.s Brilliance Jinbei Automobile Co.

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NREL, Swiss scientists create silicon-based multijunction solar cells that reach nearly 36% efficiency

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But as manufacturing ramps up and the efficiencies of these types of cells climbs to 35%, the researchers predict the cost per watt could fall to 66 cents for a GaInP-based cell and to 85 cents for the GaAs-based cell. The cost of a solar module in the United States accounts for 20% to 40% of the price of a photovoltaic system.

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Researchers show nitrogen- or born-doped graphene can serve as high-power and high-energy anodes for Li-ion batteries

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Researchers at the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences have shown that nitrogen- or boron-doped graphene can be used as an anode material for high-power and high-energy lithium-ion batteries under high-rate charge and discharge conditions. Credit: ACS, Wu et al.

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