Autonomous Logistics Scaling Rapidly In China

In my recent article on trucks in China, the shift to electrification is increasingly prevalent and seems inevitable. Jake also recently posted on an autonomous freight startup in the US. However, electrified, autonomous logistics is becoming increasingly common in Chinese cities and is rapidly commercializing in long haul applications. Based … [continued]

240 New Electric Buses Coming To German City

It was only about a month ago it was announced that Copenhagen’s city buses are now 100 percent electric. Other European cities are electrifying their bus fleets too, as we see with a new announcement about 240 electric buses planned for Hamburg, Germany by 2031. The plan for 240 electric … [continued]

XPENG Unveils The “World Model Accelerator” X-Cache, Which Requires No Training, Is Plug-And-Play, And Boosts…

Guangzhou, May 6, 2026 — XPENG (NYSE: XPEV, HKEX: 9868), a leading China-based high-tech company, previously released the X-World technical report and demonstrated the practical value of this technology in XPENG’s autonomous driving. Recently, XPENG once again announced advancements in world model technology, the X-Cache technical report. X-Cache leverages the continuity … [continued]

1st Robotaxi Service in Europe

Europe finally has a robotaxi service, years after the first robotaxis launched in the US and China (in 2020 in both places). The new robotaxi service didn’t launch in one of Europe’s larger, more famous countries, but in the small country of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea (which, by the … [continued]

SEC Moves Toward Rescinding Climate Disclosure Rule, Retreating Further From Investor Protection

SEC Moves Toward Rescinding Climate Disclosure Rule, Retreating Further From Investor Protection WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission has submitted a proposed rule titled “Rescission of Climate-Related Disclosure Rules” to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review, advancing the agency’s effort to formally rescind its 2024 climate disclosure … [continued]

Space Is Becoming Climate Infrastructure, And China Knows It

Betting against China in space has become one of those comfortable Western assumptions that deserves to be retired. It sits beside earlier assumptions that Chinese solar would remain second tier, Chinese EVs would remain cheap copies, and Chinese batteries would never define global cost curves. The pattern is familiar. Analysts … [continued]