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Cheap solar panels from China are all over Europe – and everyone is freaking out

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Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Europe is installing more solar panels than ever before, thanks to a flood of cheap Chinese solar panels, driving installations by 40% last year. European local solar panel manufacturers have reached a crisis in that they say they can’t compete with cheap imports and oversupply.

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IDTechEx: Sales of electric motorcycles in Europe grew 50% y-o-y in 2020

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IDTechEx expects electric motorcycle sales in Europe to have grown at least 50% year-on-year in 2020, building on the momentum of recent years. Growth is also being boosted by consumer awareness and acceptance in Europe of the benefits of electric motorcycles. 2020 is an IDTechEx estimate based on Q1 - Q3 2020 data.

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Michelin doesn’t want you to buy as many EV tires

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And yet it acknowledges that EV drivers shouldn’t be buying as many tires as they are. Michelin has created a consortium called BlackCycle in which it is looking at developing a value chain locally in Europe around secondary raw materials—especially carbon black—to be used in new tires, rather than see the tires shipped across the world.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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To help dodge sanctions, Russia had demanded that by the start of this month, members of the European Union begin paying for the natural gas it was buying in rubles rather than dollars or euros, threatening to cut off supplies if they didn’t. The distribution of heat pumps in Europe supports Rosenow’s contention.

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BYD overtakes VW’s 15-year-run as top seller in China

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percentage points, reports Automotive News Europe. Still, the German legacy brand has long held a lot of clout in China, but this new data shows that Chinese consumers are happy to buy cheap, high-tech homegrown EVs these days. BYD reported 2.4 That new data gives BYD a total market share in China of 11%, a rise of 3.2

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again. Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again. That’s not cheap, except by U.S. Reaper, which it broadly resembles.

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Tesla expands self-serve test drives to destination chargers

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Instead, Tesla started to assign orders to “virtual sales advisors” not assigned to any specific stores, and customers could go to cheap remote test drive locations with Tesla vehicles in parking lots. The company has been gradually implementing this new strategy in North America and expanded to Europe last year. Very 2020s.

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