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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Commerce Department issued new rules that clamped down on the export of certain advanced chips—which have military or AI applications—to Chinese customers. China has yet to respond—but Beijing has multiple options in their arsenal. has blocked chip sales to individual Chinese customers. It’s unlikely, experts say, that the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Xinhua reports that China’s State Administration of Grain (SAG) said that China will expand production and consumption of bioethanol fuel this year as the country seeks more channels to use corn and grain stockpiles. China’s end-of-year corn stock estimates (2017/2018 values forecasted). Source: USDA FAS. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 16, 2024

China, for one, is expected to meet its own 2030 EV adoption target: 40 percent of vehicles sold. By decade’s end, China is expected to be selling only EVs in regions like the island province of Hainan. According to the WRI’s analysis, above, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and China are the leading EV adopters after Norway.

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JULY 30, 2012

The University of Leeds (UK) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have partnered to create a joint research institute to develop next generation energy storage systems, with a focus on thermal- and mechanical-based energy storage systems.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The study is the first to document the health and economic benefits of policies to reduce the burden of air pollution in a highly polluted area of China, and provides a model to measure how policies to improve air quality can protect human health. Results appear in an open access paper in the journal Environment International.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one of China’s biggest energy companies and Airbus are developing and promoting renewable aviation fuel production for regular commercial use in China. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On 3 January 2019 , the Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-4 descended toward the moon. China's space program , long trailing in the footsteps of the U.S. and Soviet (now Russian) programs, had registered an international first. The landing also prefigured grander Chinese lunar ambitions.

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JULY 17, 2017

Exposure to ozone, long associated with impaired lung function, is also connected to health changes that can cause cardiovascular disease such as heart attack, high blood pressure and stroke, according to a new study of Chinese adults. The team studied 89 healthy adults living in Changsha City, China, for one year. 2017.2842.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Danish Minister for Transport Trine Bramsen, Aalborg municipal government representatives, and European media were invited to witness the first test runs of Geely methanol vehicles on Danish roads and visit the e-methanol production facility at Aalborg University.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have entered a new agreement to work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China. The collaboration is intended to help expand the global market for zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs).

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

signed an agreement with SAIC USA, a fully owned subsidiary of Chinese automaker SAIC Motors, to manufacture and distribute the Savari V2X communications solutions in the Greater China and selected ASEAN countries. We look forward to working with Savari to deploy their technology in China. V2X company Savari Inc. 1 km range.

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APRIL 22, 2014

Harman International Industries, Inc. has entered into an agreement with China’s Tsinghua University to establish a new joint research laboratory focused on creating disruptive innovations for future vehicles. We are excited about this new relationship and the work we will do to make our vehicles and our roads safer.

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MAY 30, 2024

Tesla’s push to roll out FSD in China also would “pressure other EV startups to accelerate their research and development”, said Yale Zhang. electric vehicle maker is also considering selling the software as a monthly subscription to users of its cars in China, its second-largest market, they said.

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JULY 10, 2018

The Chinese EV battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. CATL) is building its first plant outside of China in Thuringia, Germany. Among CATL’s current customers are: International auto makers: BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen. GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. Energy storage system customers: State Grid.

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AUGUST 28, 2020

Dongfeng Passenger Car Corporation uses the axle drive for its new all-electric version of the Yixuan car, a recent passenger car model which belongs to the Chinese A-segment that would internationally be considered a C-segment. —Gregoire Cuny, head of Vitesco Technologies in China.

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MAY 16, 2022

Using new analytical methods, the research group “CritMET: Critical Metals for Enabling Technologies” led by Michael Bau, Professor of Geochemistry at Jacobs University in Bremen has studied the distribution of germanium and gallium in iron-manganese crusts from the deep sea. Source: Jacobs University).

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APRIL 28, 2016

China-based internet company LeEco unveiled its LeSEE electric car concept this week at Auto China 2016—The 14th Beijing International Automobile Exhibition. He also led the development of GM’s three major global platforms and purchasing as a Chinese joint venture. Earlier post.) Ding received a B.S.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

LI Rengui from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. Kazunari Domen from The University of Tokyo, Prof. Lianzhou Wang from The University of Queensland, Prof. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

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JULY 10, 2018

The Chinese EV battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. CATL) is building its first plant outside of China in Thuringia, Germany. Among CATL’s current customers are: International auto makers: BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen. GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. Energy storage system customers: State Grid.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Pearl River Delta (PRD) and Beijing in China, São Paulo in Brazil). Credit: The University of Hong Kong. The findings also revealed rapid urbanization of large cities in China in the last two decades. 101 of these are located in China. By 2050, the global population is expected to soar to 9.7 —Professor Chen.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Judging by the Top500 list alone, China's fastest entry, Sunway TiahuLight trails far behind Frontier, clocking in at just 93 petaflops across its more than 10 million cores. However, China's HPC ambitions appears to be less than fully expressed on the otherwise gold-standard Top500 list. That's just 8 percent of Frontier's speed.)

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OCTOBER 14, 2015

Since 2009, China has been taking a much more active role in its pursuit of international oil contracts. In 2009, for the first time, Saudi Arabia exported more of its oil to China than it did to the U.S. China also made large investments in Saudi Arabia’s oil refining industry as well. by John Manfreda for Oilprice.com.

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JULY 8, 2018

Daimler became the first international automaker to receive a road test license for highly automated driving research vehicles (level 4) in Beijing, marking a major new milestone in the company’s local research and development efforts in China. Dr. Hans Georg Engel, Head of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development China.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

The University of Michigan (U-M) will collaborate with Chinese institutions to advance research, development and deployment of new transportation technologies and cutting-edge innovations. U-M is the first university in the US to partner with DiDi. Funding for the five-year, $25-million partnership will be provided by BICI.

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JUNE 28, 2018

Countries seeking to meet Paris Agreement targets on CO 2 emissions must get a grip on the amount of pollution produced at city level, according to a new open-access study published in S cience Advances by an international team of researchers from Europe and China. Total CO 2 emissions of 182 Chinese cities. Shan et al.

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JANUARY 12, 2013

Consumption-based power mixes and NG transmission distances by Chinese province in 2010. However, the fuel-cycle PM 10 , PM 2.5 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs could be up to five times higher than those of ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles) and CNGVs. According to the 12 th Five-Year Plan of the China Coal Industry (2011?

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MAY 14, 2018

A new study finds that the growth of carbon production from Chinese exports has slowed or reversed, reflecting a “new phase of globalization” between developing countries that could undermine international efforts to reduce emissions. The paper is published in Nature Communications. trillion) in 2014.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Among the findings of the report, “HFC-134a phase-out in the Chinese light-duty motor vehicle sector”, was that, considering the social cost of CO 2 e, up to 1 trillion RMB in costs (US$150 billion) required to address climate change could be avoided through 2050 by transitioning to low-GWP alternative MACs.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

People living in parts of southern Europe, South Korea and southern Japan and China also experienced more than 15 days a year of ozone levels above 70 ppb. Source: University of Leicester. Source: University of Leicester. Fleming, National Centre for Atmospheric Science at University of Leicester. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

Jutting out from the coast of China’s Fujian province, Changbiao Island may seem small and unremarkable. This is where the China National Nuclear Corp. So China could start producing weapons-grade plutonium there very soon. Not so in China, India, and Russia. The China National Nuclear Corp. It is anything but.

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JULY 23, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected Argonne National Laboratory to lead a consortium of university, private sector and national laboratory partners for a new, medium- and heavy-duty truck technical track under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center ( CERC ) Truck Research Utilizing Collaborative Knowledge (TRUCK) program.

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AUGUST 5, 2011

The University of Michigan (U-M) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have selected six research teams to share $1.05 Goal: To enable broader use of biofuels in advanced internal combustion engines. and Chinese governments, as well as from industry.

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JULY 8, 2018

Daimler became the first international automaker to receive a road test license for highly automated driving research vehicles (level 4) in Beijing, marking a major new milestone in the company’s local research and development efforts in China. Dr. Hans Georg Engel, Head of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development China.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

a provider of lithium-ion battery cells, modules and systems ( earlier post ), announced $125 million in new funding from a combination of private equity investment and support from China. As part of its plans, Boston-Power is establishing an R&D and EV battery engineering facility in China. Boston-Power, Inc., Reorganizing.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. That makes it an ideal cohost with Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, which China plans to make the greenest yet.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

of China (COMAC) opened a demonstration facility that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel. billion liters) of biofuel could be made annually in China from used cooking oil. Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Daimler Greater China opened its new 865-million RMB Mercedes-Benz Research & Development Center in China and extended its local R%D network in Beijing. For the automotive industry, China has become the most important market worldwide. —Hubertus Troska, Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG responsible for China.

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