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China × Cleantech — May 2021

Welcome to China × Cleantech — May 2021 edition. Our China x Cleantech series covers top cleantech stories in China each month. EV Sales 10% Plugin Vehicle Share In China! On the 26th of May, José Pontes reported on the sales numbers of the Chinese EV market in April of 2021. April … [continued]

Finally, Infrastructure Week Isn’t a Joke

Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog. By Deron Lovaas For years everyone has furrowed their brows and declared infrastructure “crumbling,” with respected scorecards rating it mediocre and one former Transportation Secretary dubbing the U.S. “one big pothole.” Yet so far little has happened to address the problem. That changes today as Transportation Secretary … [continued]

Who Is Xpeng?

Xpeng, or Xiaopeng Motors, was founded in 2014 — two years after the Tesla Model S came out — in Guangzhou, China. Without a doubt, it took the idea of “copying what Tesla did” to a potentially obsessive level (I’ll come back to that later on).

Xpeng | Xiaopeng Motors Numerous electric vehicle startups — or auto startups in general — have tried to sprout up before falling to the challenges of automotive development, automotive manufacturing, years of net losses, and a powerful, entrenched legacy auto industry that doesn’t provide much room for newcomers. A few, … [continued]