GreenergyDaily
September 8, 2023
1. Li Auto today refuted a report claiming the Chinese EV maker is planning to enter the field of self-driving trucks and appoint Lang Xianpeng, the VP of its intelligent driving business, as head of the new team. Li Auto is hiring for smart-driving delivery, not self-driving trucks, according to Yicai.
2. Chinese capital Beijing eyes new energy power for public transportation sectors, including buses, taxis, and sanitation trucks, by 2025 to cut carbon emissions as its traffic sector takes up 30% of the city's total emissions.
3. Today, Tesla announced that it had deployed more than 50,000 supercharging piles worldwide. In September 2012, Tesla launched the super charging station network, when there were only 6 super charging piles.
4. Chinese giant company SANY, one of the largest construction equipment manufacturers in the world, recently invested CNY 100 million to establish an energy subsidiary Sany Mota Energy Co., Ltd. The business scope includes battery sales; electric vehicle charging infrastructure operation; charging pile sales, etc.
5. China's nuclear tech applications saw an output value close to 700 bln yuan (about $95.5 bln) by end-2022, with industrial applications taking up over 50% of the total, pushing the country a step closer to a 1-trillion-yuan market scale expected by 2025.
6. Sinopec is interested in new oil and gas projects in Kazakhstan. Kazakh Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov and Sinopec Corp President Yu Baocai debated the development of new oil and gas projects, Kazinform cites the Government's press service. The Prime Minister stressed that Sinopec participated in the development of several significant projects in Kazakhstan, including the modernization of the Atyrau refinery.
7. Dapeng LNG Terminal, the 1st of its kind in China located in Guangdong, had handled over 100 mln tonnes of LNG as of Thur since its operation in 2006, equivalent to China's annual gas consumption in urban areas, sufficient to provide a stable energy supply in the Greater Bay Area.
8. China had a total of 529,000 new energy buses recorded in 2022, surging more than 14 times from 37,000 in 2014, data from the China Academy of Transportation Sciences showed Thursday.
9. SAIC Motor sold 423,319 vehicles in August, down 17% from a year earlier, the Chinese carmaker said today, adding that its NEV sales also fell 12% to 92,286 units in the period. SAIC's overseas sales in the first eight months rose 26% to 733,000 units from a year ago.
10. China solar module prices have fallen to their lowest values ever, as buyers and sellers alike reiterate that the module market continues to see intense competition and weakening demand, according to OPIS data. The Chinese Module Marker (CMM), the OPIS benchmark assessment for Mono PERC modules from China, and TOPCon module prices plummeted for the first time in five weeks to $0.151/W and $0.157/W respectively this week.
