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South China Morning Post (September 16)

2023/ 09/ 17 by jd in Global News

“The European Union is scrambling to answer SOS calls from its hi-tech industries to fend off the challenge of China’s manufacturing juggernaut. From electric vehicles (EVs) and solar panels to wind turbines and hi-tech batteries, European businesses say they are being eaten alive by Chinese imports sold well below market rates.”

 

Reuters (October 3)

2022/ 10/ 03 by jd in Global News

“A revival of American high-tech manufacturing” will pose a threat to South Korea’s “trade-dependent” economy. “Thanks to strong demand for South Korean-made electric cars, batteries and auto parts, shipments to the United States jumped 16% year-on-year in September. Those exports, which totaled some $96 billion last year, now look under threat. Big shifts today will have outsized effects on South Korea’s trade position down the road.”

 

Wall Street Journal (March 18)

2018/ 03/ 20 by jd in Global News

“The batteries that power our modern world—from phones to drones to electric cars—will soon experience something not heard of in years: Their capacity to store electricity will jump by double-digit percentages, according to researchers, developers and manufacturers.”

 

Forbes (September 12)

2013/ 09/ 13 by jd in Global News

About 11 billion miles from the Sun, Voyager 1 is the first man-made object to go beyond our Solar System. “Now that Voyager 1 is in the space between the stars, it will help improve our knowledge of what conditions are like in interstellar space. And we should get a lot of information about it until about the year 2020, when Voyager’s batteries will start to run out and shut down its systems.”

 

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