It’s a weird design for a robotaxi specific car. I guess it can be cheap as a 2 seater. But other manufacturers are investing in the robotics needed for low cost cars. The aero dynamics aren’t typically helpful for taxis. I understand he will try to milk existing models until FSD instead of innovating on them.

paywalled. Chinese subsidies for EVs and solar are far less than US ones. China does make sure an abundance of minerals exists, refineries to process them locally. Key industries have access to cheap loans, but often new companies/projects have the same access as leaders. US system favours free money instead which is subject to using it as a slush fund instead of building a successful project that will pay back normal loans.

China’s early success on EVs was based on city policies of restricting non EV license plates to certain days of driving. This is free. Having a good charging infrastructure/network also makes EVs an easier decision.

Still, the US is improving enough to get good EV growth, and EV dominance soon enough. Equinox EV is better than model Y. Ford transit van is cheaper electric than ICE, with additional operating cost savings, and as a city vehicle enough range for a full day, and contractor benefits.

US policy is based on pure lies to protect oil oligarchy dominance, but there is still a certainty/path for EV success.

As the US forces Russia to rapidly expand military production, and overspends on broken systems, expect much more of these “we need to spend everything on military” pleads from the public.

While LH2 is about 1/3 the density of gasoline as heat energy, and 3/4 the density for electric energy, it is about 2kwh-electric per liter. Lithium batteries are under 1/4 of that.

“It’s what plants crave” I’ve heard before. While true, global warming makes it harder for human sustainability. “Preserving our way of very specific economic domination for a few extra quarters” loses our way of life and sustainable economic opportunity.

This is old news as a result of first winter after Ukraine war. NG prices are back down to “normal” now. Electricity demand is high/growing. Renewables growth is far higher than electricity demand growth is the reason emissions are down. It’s fair to say EU economy is not booming though.

the switch to greener options has started and might not be easily stopped

Definitely for EU. No matter how much they love the US, they know that FF dependency is hurting them more than any one country dependency. While article says China emissions have gone up, they are likely to finish down for the year. As of summer, there is also a big drop in NG imports from China. China EV success is also reducing their oil imports/refining.

The backdrop for this is the delusion in US politics with right wing saying that we need to massively increase LNG export capacity even as their customers are rapidly reducing NG imports.

No. Electric demand is growing even as NG and coal is dropping. NG prices are back down in EU to prior to obviousness of Ukraine war. Emissions from chemical/industrial use of NG aren’t counted though in OP.

it’s 2023 data. Article explains it ok. Wapo did a piece on how Russian economy was booming this year as well. Wages are high as an alternative to joining army.

They don’t tend to lie such as hyping up Russia though.

Storage does have 2 relevant metrics. how fast it can charge/discharge in GW, and the amount of energy available in gwh. Batteries typically have both these amounts equal. While other storage technologies usually can discharge a large amount of gwh at a slow rate. The discharge rate is often limited to the line capacity available as well.

Absurdly low given 2023 had 1.15tw capacity.

The report forecasts that global demand for solar modules will grow from 460 GW in 2023 to 674 GW in 2035

Even more absurdly low. Likely to hit over 600gw this year.

IEA has a history of projecting 3% growth per year every year even as we do 30+% growth.

China’s car are cheap because they have good robotics. This is hand placing and wiring batteries into a good looking car, but the body may have a lot of manual labour too.

US or Europe could manufacture a car with these specs for $20k. Even with more expensive batteries.

Though the US/EU being slow at making $20k or $30k cars does mean there is this market opportunity for this in MX.

Holding what looks suspiciously like a modified red trident.

It is the right strategy to use Chinese batteries and motors, but their operation is very labour intensive. Even at low Mexico wage rates, a US manufacturer car can likely beat on price/quality/features.

What is price of their car?

To back up the “machine tools” current supremacy in China, here is Tim Cook: https://v.redd.it/9hhccm6krhyd1

It is very hard to catch up without growing manufacturing base, which is hard to grow without machine tooling and robotics expertise.

That’s a completely fair compromise. Those radical leftist democrats are just overreacting and mean by calling the ad unhinged demonic fascism. The radical communist traitors to our country need to bring more civil discourse to politics.

Pump storage is indeed very cool. However if one would count it twice when it is produced by solar and then again when getting it back from the storage, then that would majorly distort the statistic. You’d effectively count the produced amount of energy double (minus whatever efficiency loss you have from storing it).

If batteries are charged by renewables, then counting the battery output as renewables is fine, as long as you don’t count the charging. Same for pumped storage.

The point though was that existing hydro can be enhanced because it runs at spare capacity. Compared to dedicated pumped storage projects.

Hydro is very variable power output. If drought last year then can be a huge jump this year. Hydro in general, globally, averages 45% capacity. A good way to boost that is to use solar to power pumps bringing water up to the high side during the day.

Onshore only growing by 6% is disappointing and I imagine a lot of it still has to do with resistance from nimby people and the likes?

Europe is mostly densely populated. Onshore wind is struggling in west due to noise, but best locations are already taken is an issue as well. Europe does do much better than US given less oil/gas protectionism politics.