The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has proposed an investment of up to 260 million yuan (approximately $40 million) in China’s animal feed producer Anyou Biotechnology Group Co., Ltd, (Anyou), according to a disclosure. The investment, a long-term A loan, will be used for Anyou’s project to expand its… Continue reading IFC proposes $40m investment in Chinese animal feed producer Anyou
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Cleantechnica: The EV Market Is Entering An Exciting Phase 002381
One of the first real mass production EVs, the Nissan Leaf, took about 10 years to produce and sell 500,000 units. Just the other day, VW announced that it has sold 500 000 of its ID series, one year ahead of schedule. It took VW just 2 years to sell half a million units of… Continue reading Cleantechnica: The EV Market Is Entering An Exciting Phase 002381
Cleantechnica: It’s Not About Tesla Vs BYD — They Are Both Playing A Key Role In The Transition 002380
The transition to electric mobility is well underway. There has been a lot of progress in the passenger vehicle segment over the last 12 years or so since the early days of the Nissan Leaf, the Tesla Roadster, and the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. The market share of new EV sales in China is close to 30%… Continue reading Cleantechnica: It’s Not About Tesla Vs BYD — They Are Both Playing A Key Role In The Transition 002380
Clean Technica: Global Electric Vehicle Sales Up 62% (Overall Auto Sales Down 8%)002379
Electric vehicle sales were up 62% globally in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of 2021. That includes fully electric vehicles and plugin hybrids. These plugin vehicles reached 4.3 million sales in the first half of 2022, according to global EV analysis leaders at EV-Volumes. Looking at growth in core regions,… Continue reading Clean Technica: Global Electric Vehicle Sales Up 62% (Overall Auto Sales Down 8%)002379
Panicked Elon Musk Reportedly Begging Engineers Not to Leave
Elon Musk’s Twitter operations are still in free fall. Earlier this week, the billionaire CEO sent an email to staff telling them that they “need to be extremely hardcore” and work long hours at the office, or quit and get three months severance, as The Washington Post reports. Employees had until 5 pm on Thursday… Continue reading Panicked Elon Musk Reportedly Begging Engineers Not to Leave
Startup Says It’s Building a Giant CO2 Battery in the United States
A big, gassy dome of energy. Italian Import Carbon dioxide has a bad rep for its role in driving climate change, but in an unexpected twist, it could also play a key role in storing renewable energy. The world’s first CO2 battery, built by Italian startup Energy Dome, promises to store renewables on an industrial… Continue reading Startup Says It’s Building a Giant CO2 Battery in the United States
“Elon” Plummets in Popularity as a Baby Name for Some Reason
We can’t imagine why. Big Baby Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s name has clearly lost its luster among the parents of newborns. According to BabyCenter‘s review of the data the name “Elon” has cratered in popularity over the last year, dropping from 120 babies per million in 2021 to just 90 babies per million,… Continue reading “Elon” Plummets in Popularity as a Baby Name for Some Reason
FDA Approves First Lab Grown Meat Product For Human Consumption
“The world is experiencing a food revolution and the [FDA] is committed to supporting innovation in the food supply.” Meat and Greet Behold, ethical omnivores: the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its first lab grown meat product for human consumption. The decision, a first for cultivated meat in the US, paves the… Continue reading FDA Approves First Lab Grown Meat Product For Human Consumption
Celebrities Are Officially Being Sued by FTX Retail Investors
Welp, that didn’t take long. The first civil suit against the still-imploding crypto exchange FTX was just filed in a Florida court, accusing FTX, disgraced CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, and 11 of the exchange’s many celebrity ambassadors of preying on “unsophisticated” retail investors. The list of celeb defendants impressive — honestly, it reads more like an… Continue reading Celebrities Are Officially Being Sued by FTX Retail Investors
Here’s How Bad a Twitter Mega-Breach Would Be
“Twitter has seemingly neglected security for a very long time, and with all the changes, there is risk for sure,” says David Kennedy, CEO of the incident response firm TrustedSec, who formerly worked at the NSA and with the United States Marine Corps signal intelligence unit. “There’s a lot of work to be done to… Continue reading Here’s How Bad a Twitter Mega-Breach Would Be