Solar power and battery storage have become the leading options for new grid power capacity across the world, so they’re also clearly top options for off-grid power. So, they are being used more and more for off-grid applications like mining. We have the story this month of a gold mine … [continued]
Yes, please! Oh, no, never mind — it’s a Chinese car, so it can’t be bought in the USA. Well, for those who can get a Mona L03, lucky you — it looks great! The small SUV is expected to be priced around 150,000 yuan ($22,140) in China, and the … [continued]
LEGO is trying to rapidly increase its use of renewable energy. That includes solar power, of course, the cheapest option for new electricity capacity or generation. The Denmark-based company is thus now building a new solar power plant. The solar power plant is being built in Billund, Denmark. “The solar … [continued]
Robotaxis are being trialled mostly in the US, China, and a few specific niche places like the UAE and Singapore. Europe has been much slower to jump into robotaxi trials. But it’s edging into them now, and we have an announcement about the first robotaxi service launching in Switzerland — … [continued]
BMW has been through many different phases of electrification. One of those phases involved developing the super unique and fun BMW i3 and BMW i8. We owned a 2015 BMW i3 REx for nine months in 2018–2019 and we absolutely loved it. Then production of the Tesla Model 3 was … [continued]
China has rapidly electrified its auto market, which is by far the largest auto market in the world. The country accounts for about half of the world’s electric vehicle sales, and 63% of the country’s auto sales were plugin vehicles last month. As the market has ramped up and gotten … [continued]
As we’ve been writing, BYD is focusing more and more on sales outside of China for its core EV business and a hopeful return to EV sales growth. The company’s vehicle exports have grown 65% this year so far, for example, and grew by 80% in May. BYD also now … [continued]
It’s been a popular topic lately to write about China’s EV sales slump in 2026, growing EV exports from China, and various policy changes and even controversies related to that. But there’s much more going on that isn’t typically acknowledged. First of all, note that while China’s EV sales are … [continued]
I’ve been writing a bit lately on why robotaxis are not going to be as disruptive as many people expect. (See here and here and here.) A big core of the critique is the expectation that personal vehicles will have self-driving tech in them, and people would still rather have … [continued]
Tesla fans criticized BYD electric vehicles for years. Supposedly, they were cheap, boring, and poorly made. However, BYD has grown and grown over the past several years, now produces far more cars than Tesla, and has about the same number of R&D engineers as Tesla has total employees. Now we … [continued]
