Elon Musk once scoffed at the idea that a Chinese carmaker could compete with his Tesla. Now, the Chinese brand BYD, previously unheard of by many, is on track to become the world leader in electric vehicle sales. In the third quarter, the American Tesla sold 435,000 electric vehicles, while BYD, in which American billi...
In Chengdu, China, scientists from the Institute of Urban Agriculture at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences there have created a fully automated indoor vegetable farm with an impressive 20 floors, billed as the largest automated facility of its kind in the world. Vertical farms are an effective means of introducing agricultural product...
US fast food chain McDonald's has announced its ambitious plan to open around 10,000 new locations worldwide by 2027, the most significant expansion in its history. The company aims to operate 50,000 restaurants worldwide and reach a customer base of up to a quarter of a billion. McDonald's is taking advantage of the unstable economic situati...
Henry Kissinger, a distinguished American diplomat and security adviser who served as secretary of state and won the Nobel Peace Prize, left this world on Wednesday. We learned of this event through a statement from Kissinger Associates, which confirmed his death at the age of 100 at his home in Connecticut. Kissinger, who was born in Germany...
Australian journalist Jacqueline Felgate shared a video of a rare round egg on social media. It was among the standard eggs in a box that one of her followers brought from the supermarket. The almost perfectly round egg was in a pack in a supermarket in the central area of Melbourne, Australia, and Jacqueline immediately began searching onlin...
Wistron's edge is ringing. It has failed to reach an agreement with Apple and will no longer manufacture phone models for the tech giant in India. What was the reason for the termination of the collaboration? Apple has been trying to get its electronics production to move away from China for some time now. India is set to become the new facto...
Elon Musk has dismissed a report that he plans to export Tesla cars from China to the US, despite lower production costs reportedly offsetting high tariffs on Chinese imports to the US. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has refuted a report that the company is planning to export electric cars made in China to the US and Canada. Reuters reported that Tesla ...
China has massively subsidised EVs for 13 years and transformed the entire industry. It holds global dominance over the supply chain. What will be Europe's attitude towards Chinese cars? In 2022, 10.5 million battery cars (including hybrids) will be sold globally, including 6.2 million in China, where one in four cars sold is battery-powered....
Elon Musk has shut down the team that was controlling content and blocking troll activity. Now accounts from Russia and China have been given the green light. The team worked to combat "information operations," coordinated campaigns by countries like Russia, China and Iran to influence public opinion and disrupt democracy. But experts and for...
