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Energy-Efficient One-Pot Process for Conversion of Biomass to HMF

Green Car Congress

A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences reports the production of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) from monosaccharide (fructose and glucose), polysaccharide (inulin) and the Jerusalem artichoke juice by a simple one-pot reaction including hydrolysis and dehydration using solid acid under mild conditions. —Yang et al.

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Chery on top? Omoda E5 SUV mid-year launch leads Chinese brand’s expansive Aussie electric vehicle line-up

EV Central

The ambitious Chinese Chery brand will launch its first electric vehicle in Australia when the Omoda E5 SUV arrives mid-year. A 61kWh lithium-ion battery pack provides the juice. Omoda E5 SUV mid-year launch leads Chinese brand’s expansive Aussie electric vehicle line-up appeared first on EV Central. The post Chery on top?

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Should you rent an EV for a family holiday?

EV Central

A shitty obscure Chinese electric car. Dropping to just 3km range when Chinese EV refused to charge. I suggested to the Europcar lady that a mysterious Chinese EV with circa 300km range, no Euro NCAP safety rating or Apple CarPlay was not, in fact, similar to my beloved Kona Electric. How spectacularly naive.

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Our visit to BGauss factory & B8 Electric Scooter Report

Plug In India

Why are so many Chinese made EV seats not suitable for Indians? Wikipedia tells me that the average Chinese is actually taller than the average Indian. Am sure that the average Indian is more obese than the average Chinese - and hence the issue with seat inadequacy. Ergonomics is ok. The switches look good.

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Road Test: 2021 Volvo XC90 Recharge T8 PHEV

Clean Fleet Report

If you track the history of Volvo, the Swedish (now Chinese-owned) company was famous for decades for its safe, solid, boxy sedans and wagons. Moving towards more juice. Out on the road where the XC90 Loves to Live. The XC90, as Volvo’s largest SUV, is currently its most popular model in the United States.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

Then as the sun sets in the West, hopefully the battery pack would have enough juice to power the house for the rest of the evening. . JA are a Chinese company that has grown at a huge rate and now one of the largest producers of panels. Lux is another Chinese firm growing like crazy as the world moves to solar. . See [link].

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XPeng’s AeroHT flexes its eVTOL expertise, taking its X2 flying car to the skies above Guangzhou

Baua Electric

Earlier today, XPeng’s aerial arm conducted its first successful flight test in its all-electric X2 “flying car” eVTOL above the Chinese city of Guangzhou to test low-altitude scenarios for future transport and sightseeing routes. AeroHT , fka XPeng Huitian, is an eVTOL-centric entity of XPeng Inc.,

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