November 13, 20240 Comments

Exclusive-Chinese giant CATL pushes beyond batteries into power grids, EV platforms By Reuters

NINGDE, China (Reuters) – Robin Zeng, the billionaire founder of CATL, aims to reinvent the world’s largest battery maker as a green-energy provider and to slash the cost of developing electric vehicles, upending the economics of the industry that has powered its growth. Zeng told Reuters in an interview that he expects the business of developing and managing “zero carbon” electric grids could be “ten times” larger than supplying electric-vehicle

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November 8, 20240 Comments

Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki spews giant column of ash

Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki has erupted again, spreading fresh panic among residents already traumatised by explosions that killed at least ten people on Monday. The country’s volcanology agency reported seven eruptions on Thursday, with the most powerful ejecting a giant column of ash 8,000m (5 miles) into the air. Authorities imposed a 7km (4.3 miles) exclusion zone around the volcano on the island of Flores. More than 10,000 people are

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