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Worth it for the drone footage… A Chinese space startup conducted what it called a “high-altitude” test flight of its Nebula-1 rocket on Sunday, launching the vehicle to an altitude of about 5 km or so before attempting to land it back at the Ejin Banner Spaceport in Inner Mongolia. The test flight went well…
After teasing the electric supercar’s sleek design, dance moves, and other fun features, BYD launched the Yangwang U9 in February. Starting at around $233,000 (1,680,000 yuan), the U9 is priced at a hefty premium compared to most low-cost BYD models starting at around $10,000 to $25,000. https://electrek.co/2024/08/19/byd-chinas-supercars-get-serious-new-1200-hp-ev/
OceanX is one of the wind turbines that has been making a lot of noise lately as it is now the world’s largest single-capacity floating wind platform. It has finally started its voyage from Guangzhou, China and is expected to reach its final destination of the Qingzhou IV Offshore Wind Farm in Yangjiang, Gangdong by…
While sales of petrol- and diesel-powered cars slumped in July, sales of fully electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids were up 37% compared to a year before. As a result, new-energy vehicles comprised 51% of total sales, according to the CPCA. For context, the International Energy Agency projects that electric models will account for one in…
The Chinese have executed the low-end disruption playbook to perfection… cars is just *one* of the markets. This story is going to play out again and again. Driving China’s ascendancy is a massive and abrupt shift to electric vehicles. The EV share of total car sales will jump to almost 50% this year, up from…
The addition to the hangar, which is situated near Bosten Lake in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region, can be seen in new satellite imagery that The War Zone obtained from Planet Labs. Construction of the original 1,150-foot-long and 450-foot-wide hangar, which is also extremely tall, started in 2013 and looks to have wrapped up in 2015. To give…
And you can’t run industrial policy or a war economy if you want fake profits based on not actually producing good new goods at cheap prices. It can’t be done. If an entire society is based around “give me money for the least possible effort”, you’re cooked China’s government, while not without serious flaws, works,…
You might not have heard of the company yet, largely because they rarely advertise which major e-bike brands use their motors, controllers, and other components. But to put things in perspective, they produced around 6.5 million electric motors last year. Most of their products are built for the massive domestic market, but around 600,000 were…
This is a super important inversion “we” need to understand and appreciate. In the West our rhetoric is not to “pick winners”, but we fall into the trap of backing “the winners” and we wonder why we don’t see a flourishing.
I think this will be an eye opening series of stories to read… https://electrek.co/2024/04/24/i-went-to-china-to-witness-the-secrets-of-micromobility-factories-heres-whats-coming
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