BYD executive vice president He Zhiqi sent out emails to suppliers on Nov 26 to request 10% price reduction starting on Jan 1, 2025. Here is the reply from one disgruntled supplier: Dear Mr. He Zhiqi, I acknowledge your notification regarding your request for suppliers to

Crazy!

Boom! Stellantis and CATL have reached an agreement to invest 4.1 Billion Euros in a 50:50 joint venture in Spain to produce LFP batteries with a capacity of 50 GWh. SOP expected by end of 2026. Transaction to be completed within 2025. Salt on the wound for Northvolt!

Wow, China kicks off the year with a proposed export ban on critical LFP and lithium processing tech. A major blow to Western ambitions. 🔋⬇️ news.metal.com/newscontent/10…

“Assembled in Croatia” - Porsche has finally transitioned to cylindrical cells, which are domestically produced in Germany by Varta under the codename V4Drive. The rest of the battery system is then assembled, tested and aproved in Zagreb, Jankomir, as part of Rimac Automobili

It’s crazy how dependent we are nowadays on electricity production from other countries. Large part of Portugal is also suffering blackouts. Cyberattack or a massive grid failure between countries?

This is such a fascinating graph. A frequency drop of 0.15Hz was enough to take down Spain and Portugal.

They should fire CEO Adrian Mardell who signed off on this Tata Group

Fascinating high resolution load data for an AI training data center (50 MW block) Periodic idling & surges - 6MW to 30MW spike in 290ms(!) - fluctuating demand followed by drop then spikes again Why does AI training load vary so much? - GPUs process data in batches, so power

FSD in Sweden – Where we’re at 🇸🇪 We already knew Tesla’s application to test FSD in Stockholm was denied. What’s new: Tesla has also applied to run supervised FSD tests in Södertälje and Uppsala — both still pending municipal approval. Meanwhile, Tesla has approval to test on

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Audi CEO Gernot Döllner criticized the "newly reignited debate over the combustion engine ban" as "counterproductive." In doing so, he distanced himself from Mercedes CEO Ola Källenius. At the opening of the IAA auto show, Källenius had called for a reversal of the combustion

This should be a poster in every classroom.