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Roskill: surge in electrodeposited copper foil projects to meet projected EV demand

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This acceleration in new capacity collectively totals 560 kt—equivalent to a 67% increase in the nameplate industry capacity that existed at the end of 2020 (830kt). From January to May 2021, more than a dozen new projects and expansions have been reported globally, Roskill said.

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China says it will ‘rein in’ the flood of EVs coming our way

Baua Electric

But now China has said it will “rein in” some of its huge EV expansive in response to criticism of “unfair” industrial and trade policies. There are also some disorderly competition behaviors,” Xin Guobin, vice-minister of industry and information technology, told the Financial Times. What that means is anyone’s guess.

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

Cars That Think

It is the third largest producer of wheat, behind China and India, and is now the world’s top exporter of the grain. But Russia now has a huge ally in the world’s largest economy, China. It plans to double, by 2025, its pipeline capacity for exports to China. Though the move seems a punishing blow—Russia stood to earn around €2.7

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China’s EV brands are coming to bury US automakers—or are they? – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

We EV pundits have been writing about the rise of the Chinese EV industry for years. Chinese OEMs are now producing good-quality vehicles, and thanks to cheap labor, government subsidies and economies of scale, they’re able to offer these at prices no Western automaker can hope to match.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

tech industry during the 1990s. " This time Buffett asked another trusted partner, David Sokol, chairman of a Berkshire-owned utility company called MidAmerican Energy, to travel to China and take a closer look at BYD. Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Within a few years, BYD’s batteries were cheaper and just as reliable as those made by industry giants ony and Sanyo. Today, BYD employes 130,000 people in 11 factories, either in China and one each in India, Hungary and Rumania. They are the top of the top,” Mr. Wang told me, when I visited BYD last year.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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For example, with increasing evidence of genocidal Chinese government towards Uyghur residents, including forced labor camps, the lack of transparency regarding whether any Chinese EVs benefit from such labor prompts me to deduct 1 production point from China (out of ~25 it had earned). 2ND PLACE: CHINA!

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