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JUNE 2, 2020

From 2015 to 2019, the market share of plug-in vehicles in China more than quadrupled, reaching 5.1% Market share of new plug-in light-duty vehicles by country/regions (China, Europe, and United States) from 2015 to 2019. Sources: China - Data summarized by Argonne National Laboratory from Hewu WANG, Xu HAO.

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JULY 23, 2023

The BMW Group further expanded its R&D footprint in China with the opening of a new R&D Center in Shanghai. China is already home to BMW Group’s largest R&D system outside of Germany, with locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and Nanjing. Our new R&D Center and BMW China R&D upgrade will enable us to achieve a real competence push.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Researchers from Renmin University and Tsinghua University in China have developed a novel shape-memorized current collector (SMCC), which can successfully brake battery thermal runaway at the battery internal overheating status. 2c03645.

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MAY 27, 2021

Rheinmetall AG, the German technology group, and Tongji University in Shanghai have recently set up a joint lab to foster cooperation in new energy vehicle technology. As an important supplier to the global automotive industry, Rheinmetall maintains a number of production plants at 17 locations in China.

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APRIL 16, 2014

Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Southeast University (SEU) in China recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the design of graphene-based materials as new platinum-free electro-catalysts and for the development of high-quality fuel-cell electrodes.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

Ford will expand its collaboration with Australian universities as part of a commitment to developing a world-class system of external alliances, programs and practices in Australia and Asia. The company has appointed senior Ford Technical Engineer, Richard Taube, as Ford Australia’s Manager for University Programs.

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MAY 25, 2017

Shell has partnered with Tsinghua University since 201 to provide students with the latest knowledge in lubricants technology. Shell is one of the leading lubricants suppliers in China and has been the world’s leading supplier for the last 10 years. Shell collaborates with top-tier universities and research institutes globally.

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Electrek

JULY 27, 2021

A team at University of Science and Technology of China has developed a new material that could potentially help lower the production costs of solid state lithium batteries and accelerate their commercialization into EVs.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The University of Bath and SAIC Motor UK Technical Centre are collaborating on a project to identify the most efficient conditions for the optimum performance of gasoline particulate filters (GPFs), to help minimize vehicle impact on the environment.

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MARCH 14, 2014

(EM), developer of opposed-piston opposed-cylinder (opoc) engine technology, has established a joint research and development center together with Hunan University (HNU) in Changsha to further develop and adapt their technology for the Chinese market. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 30, 2020

Now, researchers in China report in an open-access paper in Environmental Science & Technology Letters that particles with diameters less than 1 ?m Pooled associations between size-fractioned PM and cause-specific mortality in 65 cities in China. m in diameter (PM 2.5 ). g/m 3 increase in two-day moving average PM 1. 9b00735.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

As China prepares to implement new regulations on data security and the cross-border flow of information, Tesla and Porsche are some of the first foreign companies being sought out to share input on the proposals. “Core data” would have to be hosted within China and would be subject to the strictest oversight rules.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

—co-author Guojun He, research director at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago in China (EPIC China) and a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The unequal deployment of the regulations led to significant economic losses in China.

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MARCH 27, 2023

BHP has signed an agreement for piloting of carbon capture and utilization technology with China’s HBIS Group Co., As part of this new project, HBIS and BHP will trial pilot-scale demonstrations of carbon capture and utilization technologies at HBIS’ steel operations in China.

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JULY 1, 2020

A new study finds that automated pollution monitors in China led to more accurate readings and that citizens used this information to protect themselves better against the harms of air pollution. Less than a decade ago, not only was air pollution a recognized problem in China, but many didn’t trust the data being reported by local officials.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) announced the first research grants from the EPIC-UCAS Joint Center for Energy Policy Research in China.

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APRIL 30, 2019

The combined total of light-duty all-electric vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) sold in China in 2018 was more than 1 million, or 8.1% Europe’s plug-in vehicle sales have been nearly equally split between EV and PHEV since 2015, while more EV than PHEV have been sold in China and the United States.

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Cars That Think

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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APRIL 2, 2013

The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and Sichuan University in China will establish a joint engineering program to educate undergraduate students and foster collaborative research. The Sichuan University Pittsburgh Institute, as it will be named, expects to enroll its first class in the fall of 2014.

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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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OCTOBER 30, 2018

The fund aims to attract investments from leading venture capital firms based in China, Europe, and the US. The binational initiative’s primary objective is to spur investment in the hydrogen industry and value chain while also fostering growth of promising startups in China and Korea.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

Airbus and Tsinghua University have formed a partnership to complete a sustainability analysis of Chinese feedstocks, and to evaluate how best to support the development of a value chain to speed up the commercialization of aviation bio-fuels. We are grateful to Airbus support for the project.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Rio Tinto has committed to invest $10 million with the world’s largest steel producer China Baowu Steel Group over the next two years in low-carbon steelmaking projects and research. This investment with our partners at China Baowu is an important step in our climate partnership. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Lixi Zeng and colleagues at Jinan University in China wanted to investigate the occurrence of emerging HPAs and SAs in dust from e-waste recycling centers. The toxicological effects and environmental occurrence of most of these new compounds are unknown. 1c00866.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest iron ore producers, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China Baowu Steel Group (China’s largest steel producer) and Tsinghua University to develop and implement new methods to reduce carbon emissions and improve environmental performance across the steel value chain.

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Electric Vehicles India

JULY 29, 2021

Chinese university develops new material to increase solid-state battery production. The post Chinese university develops new material to increase solid-state battery production appeared first on Promoting Eco Friendly Travel.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Now, researchers in China have developed a new electrocatalyst that yields ethanol, acetone, and n-butanol as major products with a total C 2-4 faradaic efficiency of about 49?% Conversion into liquid fuels would be advantageous because they have high energy density and are safe to store and transport. Credit: Angewandte Chemie.

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JANUARY 2, 2021

A team from Peking University and colleagues have now developed a nickel-supported over face-centered cubic (fcc) phase ?-MoC Methanol–water reforming could prove to be a promising solution for hydrogen production/transportation in stationary and mobile hydrogen applications.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

Researchers from Tsinghua University and China University of Geosciences have used an ultrathin indium sheet to construct a stabilized lithium-rich hybrid anode with fast interfacial ion transport.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Developed entirely in China, it is operated by the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi (NSCC-Wuxi). The Sunway TaihuLight has already provided computational support to research universities and institutes in China, such as Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the First Institute of Oceanography.

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MAY 20, 2016

Nissan and Tsinghua University have a long history of cooperation. As Nissan and Tsinghua University expand their cooperation, they will work to deliver a richer driving experience for Chinese consumers and to be a sustainable engine that drives innovation in automotive, social and economic sectors in China.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In China, people breathe ozone-laden air two to six times more often than people in the United States, Europe, Japan, or South Korea, according to a new international study published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters. For China, sites in 74 major cities with continuous observations from 2013?2017 2017 for one ozone metric.

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JUNE 10, 2022

35 °C, the reversible capacity is still effectively retained at 160 mAh g –1 after 200 cycles. An open-access paper on the work is published in ACS Central Science.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

has reached an agreement with Tongji University in China on joint development of a bus priority control system to support the smooth flow of public buses. A field test is planned to commence in October on a public road in Taicang, Jiangsu, China in order to confirm the effects of the signal control and bus priority driving.

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JULY 17, 2017

The study, by a team from Duke University, Tsinghua University, Duke Kunshan University and Peking University, appears in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. The team studied 89 healthy adults living in Changsha City, China, for one year. —Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, from Duke and Duke Kunshan University.

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MAY 20, 2020

Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Xi’an Jiaotong University, China have now developed a multifunctional interlayer between the electrolyte and the Li-metal anode, made of a spreadable material that helps improve solid-state battery current density tenfold, while also increasing performance and safety.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

XNGP is now available unlimitedly on all roads, everywhere in China. XPeng Motors ($XPEV) currently operates as one of China’s big hitters in EVs. When the ADAS feature fully launched in March 2023, XPeng heralded it as “the most advanced and capable in China.” Seeing it in action, it’s hard to disagree. Watch out, Tesla.

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