GreenergyDaily
Aug. 28, 2024
1. Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng priced the first model of its budget sub-brand MONA at $16,813 on Tuesday, wedging into the mainstream but highly competitive segment of the world's largest auto market. The MONA M03 electric hatchback coupe is Xpeng's most affordable model and will compete with other EVs priced in the 100,000-150,000 yuan ($14,035-$21,052) range, which accounts for a third of total car sales in China.
2. Xpeng is looking for a manufacturing site in Europe, making it the latest Chinese electric-vehicle maker seeking to mitigate the impact of import tariffs by building its cars in the region, CEO He Xiaopeng said in an interview with Bloomberg.
3. Stella Li, the Executive Vice President of BYD, stated on Monday that the company's sales in overseas markets will make up a larger share of its global sales in the future, with nearly half of its sales potentially coming from overseas. BYD's expected overseas sales for this year are 500,000 vehicles, with 270,000 vehicles sold in the first seven months, accounting for approximately 14% of its total sales.
4. Australia is positioned to meet strong demand from China for green iron, Fortescue said on Wednesday as it readies a pilot plant to begin production of the product using renewable energy next year. The world's fourth-largest iron ore miner will use green electricity from solar farms at its Christmas Creek operations in Western Australia to produce 1,500 tons per year of high purity green iron.
5. A total of 3.46 million blue solar panels covering 30 million sqm of land in Chaideng of Ordos, N China's Inner Mongolia stand as part of an ambitious solar energy desert reclamation project along the northern edge of the Kubuqi Desert, the 7th largest desert in China.
6. Recently, State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Company released data showing that the installed capacity of clean energy in Zhejiang has reached 71.177 million kilowatts, accounting for about 52% of the total installed power generation capacity of Zhejiang.
7. The Global Sustainable Transport Forum 2024 will be held in Beijing on Sept. 25 and 26, the Ministry of Transport said Wednesday. The forum, themed "Sustainable Transport: Logistics Connecting the World," aims to foster global cooperation and promote the development of a safe, convenient, efficient, green, economical, inclusive and resilient transport system, the ministry added.
8. China has successfully planted rice in coal-mining subsidence areas for the 1st time with the first batch of rice varieties recently harvested at an experimental field in Anhui, China, offering an effective pathway for the comprehensive management of similar areas nationwide.
9. The next Shanghai auto show is starting to come into sight, with the Chengdu auto show about to begin in two days. The 21st Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition (Auto Shanghai 2025) will be held from April 25 to May 2 at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai from April 25 to May 2, the event's organizers announced yesterday.
10. On August 27, a team led by Professor Tan Peng from the Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of China proposed a “Mars battery” that uses the Martian atmosphere as direct fuel, which can achieve high energy density and long cycle performance. At present, the relevant results have been published in Science Bulletin with the title "A high-energy-density and long-cycling-lifespan Mars battery".
