• Tensions grow as China ramps up global mining for green tech

    China has taken big stakes in mines across the world extracting minerals vital to the green economy.

  • Going Green: Flood insurance is smart green thinking

    Firstly, I’m so glad to have received this question and secondly to have received it before you’ve cancelled your insurance. Please don’t cancel it. By all means, shop around and see if you can get it any cheaper but keeping flood insurance on your property – unless you live at the top of a very big hill – is vital, especially when it comes to properties that are at high risk. Right now, 20 per cent of properties across the country are at risk of flooding, with 2.4 million buildings actually...

  • Going Green: Flood insurance is smart green thinking

    Firstly, I’m so glad to have received this question and secondly to have received it before you’ve cancelled your insurance. Please don’t cancel it. By all means, shop around and see if you can get it any cheaper but keeping flood insurance on your property – unless you live at the top of a very big hill – is vital, especially when it comes to properties that are at high risk. Right now, 20 per cent of properties across the country are at risk of flooding, with 2.4 million buildings actually...

  • If $50,000 EVs still lose $6,000, when will EVs become profitable?

    Legacy automakers are still losing thousands of dollars on many EV sales, according to newly published analysis from the Boston Consulting Group. BCG estimates that most automakers lose around $6,000 on each EV they effectively sell for $50,000, that price accounting for any tax credits or other incentives the customer might be eligible for

  • Biden's EV Subsidy, Hard to Obtain Due to China EV Battery Dominance Says South Korea

    China's EV Dominance Could Hinder Manufactures to Obtain Biden's EV Subsidy Scheme, Warns South Korea

  • Are EVs empowering India's Green Transition?

    PLI is driving the surge, but there are sustainability challenges in

  • China Is Winning Big On Smaller EVs

    China Is Winning Big On Smaller EVs Smaller is betterat least in the world of building EVs for the Asian market. And while less scrupulous publications might take this opportunity to make stereotypical jokes about height, we'll do no such thing and instead will simply report that according to the IEA's Global Electric Vehicle Outlook 2024, released Tuesday, China dominated the EV market in 2023. In fact, it made up 60% of global sales, according to a new report from Reuters. The...

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    Many trapped by unseasonal floods in China

    STORY: China’s Guangdong province faces severe floods. Rescuers on boats rushed to evacuate residents on Monday, carrying some elderly people on their backs. Helicopters were deployed to save villagers who were caught in landslides.Ling Ziuzhen lives in Qingyuan city: “Since two years ago, the rainfall started to get relatively heavy, and this year. In the past, the floods rarely rose to this point. At least the floods got drained.”Situated in the densely populated Pearl River Delta – the...

  • Globe pushes for zero lease on telco tech

    Top Philippines telco wants to align with Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong Classifying telecom facilities as essential infrastructure could reduce operationa

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    Tens of thousands evacuated from floods in China's south

    STORY: More than 700 school students stranded in their dormitories after heavy rains and the ensuing floods were rescued by emergency workers, said CCTV.The southern Chinese province has been battered by unusually heavy, sustained and widespread rainfall since Thursday (April 18), with powerful storms ushering in an earlier-than-normal start to the region's annual flooding season.As of Monday morning, 11 people were missing in Guangdong, state-owned Xinhua news agency reported without giving...

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    Tens of thousands evacuated from massive China floods

    Authorities have evacuated nearly 60,000 people from their homes in

  • Bridge collapses as floods hit China's south

    The country’s south has been battered by heavy rainfall, with tens of thousands of people evacuated.