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China is exporting so many EVs that it needs more ships – a lot more

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Chinese EV makers are looking to export electric vehicles by the tens of thousands around the globe, but they need a lot more car-carrying vessels to make that happen. Yet, the current state of affairs is rapidly changing, with Chinese companies putting 47 ships on order, which accounts for a quarter of all orders globally.

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BNEF: steel industry set to pivot to hydrogen in green push; additional $278B for clean capacity and retrofits

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Steel production could be made with almost no carbon emissions through $278 billion of extra investment by 2050, according to a new report from research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). Note: CCUS is carbon capture and storage, DR-EAF is direct reduction of iron paired with an electric arc furnace. Source: BloombergNEF.

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BYD’s luxury brand unveils its first sedan, the sleek U7, with over 1,000 horsepower

Baua Electric

After overtaking Tesla as the global EV sales leader in the last three months of 2023, BYD continues to expand. But it won’t be cheap. According to a report from Chinese research firm CarFans , the electric SUV scored over 8,000 orders in its first three days on the market. BYD sold nearly 1.6

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10 Graphs That Sum Up the State of AI in 2023

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Large language models don’t come cheap While the power of large language models, like ChatGPT , has increased dramatically, the price of training such models has increased dramatically as well. It concluded that a training run for even the most efficient of the four models considered, BLOOM , emitted more carbon than the average U.S.

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Lux: graphene severely underperforming commercially against “massive hype”

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Just the Next Carbon Nanotube?”, Lux is now answering its own question with the assertion that graphene looks much closer to the next carbon nanotube than the next silicon. Many Chinese GNP suppliers are selling their products below cost to attract the interest of industry players and offload excess capacity. Lux suggested.

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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In addition, about 90% of the world’s supply of lithium is controlled by Chinese companies. During charging, Na ions move from a sodium- and iron-containing cathode through a liquid electrolyte and across a polymer barrier to a hard carbon anode. CATL, the Chinese battery behemoth has claimed to have reached that.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh kWh average cost of electricity in the United States and globally. The global solar market is expected to install 22 MW of electricity in 2011.

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