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2025 Polestar 3 starts at $74,800 and 315 miles, US deliveries in Q2

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is also considering hiking tariffs on Chinese EVs. Polestar has said that U.S. production of the 3 would be not just for the U.S. market but for export to some markets. Polestar notes that it will pass along a $7,500 credit on all Polestar 3 leases.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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But it may also signal a de-escalation of the pressure Washington has brought to bear on the Chinese company now that Huawei is on its heels. Huawei has long been regarded as a rogue player in the international telecoms market with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Huawei is slow in fixing their vulnerabilities.

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From Scooters to High Speed Rail, China is Electrifying

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When I was studying China and Mandarin Chinese 35 years ago, “Red” China was unrecognized by the US, literally, and dark in a way difficult to imagine now. Just as today we can look at a nighttime satellite image and see the black void that is recalcitrant, unelectrified North Korea, once that was China. China is electrifying.

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Tesla’s biggest investor: it’s a family business masquerading as a public company

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The Indonesian-born Chinese American businessman is better known for founding SHI International Corp, a large private IT company that made him a billionaire. Dear leader” is a reference to Kim Jong-il, the former supreme leader of North Korea. He is also involved in academia and philanthropy.

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Automakers handed a win with updated EV tax credit guidance in the U.S.

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These countries include North Korea, China, Russia and Iran. Ford has been awaiting the new guidance to determine whether an upcoming battery plant project in Michigan with Chinese battery maker CATL would allow produced vehicles to be eligible.

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Lawmakers want US to probe four Chinese firms involved in Ford battery plant – ET Auto

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lawmakers for its use of technology supplied by Chinese battery maker CATL. House committees asked the Biden administration to investigate four Chinese companies they say are involved in Ford Motor’s planned Michigan battery plant, according to a letter seen Monday by Reuters. The plant has drawn fire from U.S.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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That is, it doesn’t actually hack into Chinese companies, let’s say, and steal their blueprints. So I think that Russia, North Korea, Iran, they’re the geopolitical peasants, so to speak. So the United States is the largest national security hacker on the planet, but it almost never engages in corporate espionage.

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