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According to reporting by Chinese news outlets, Yingfa Group and the municipal government of Yibin has entered into an agreement that will lead to the setup of a PV cell production base in the city’s High-Tech Industrial Park. The signing ceremony was held on March 31. Yibin is a prefecture-level city in China’s Sichuan Province. ...  more

Electric scooter startup Gogoro has confirmed its date of listing in the US. The company will officially commence listed transactions from April 5th under the ticker symbol GGR. ...  more

Two large-scale power outages have occurred in Taiwan in the past two years. Ignoring the suspension of work and daily life, the danger caused by the failure of street lights and traffic signals is even more difficult to estimate. In the blueprint for smart city development, we cannot help but start to imagine if batteries are everywhere in the city, will these crises be solved? ...  more

Quidnet Energy announced in early March that it has entered into a 15-year agreement with CPS Energy. In this deal, they will be jointly developing a 15MWh geomechanical pumped storage (GPS) project. Both Quidnet and CPS are based in Texas. The announcement has been picked up by other renewable energy news platforms. ...  more

European automotive manufacturers are currently recovering from the chip shortage, yet another supply chain issue has surfaced amidst Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, where a tiny component may force these manufacturers to lower production for the first half of 2022 by 700K units. ...  more

The increasing installed capacity of wind power in recent decade has not only yielded enormous level of power generation through green energy and acceleration on energy transformation, but also the troublesome issue of wind turbine recycling, and it is expected that 2 million tons of wind turbine blade waste will be accumulated around the world by 2050. ...  more

Germany, the largest economy in Europe, activated an emergency contingency plan on the management of natural gas supply on March 30th in order to avoid a predicament or suspension in provision from Russia’s demand of paying for fuels with Ruble. Judging by Vladimir Putin’s latest plan, Germany may proceed with the particular implementation. ...  more

Foxconn announced at its Facebook page today (March 30th) that two EV models, Model C and Model E, developed by its subsidiary Foxtron, were respectively awarded with “Best Energy-Saving SUV” and “Best Concept Sedan” at the Bangkok International Motor Show (BIMS) for their excellent performance and technology innovation. ...  more

Kymco has decided to go against the major trend of rising oil and shipping cost by releasing a new plan that would become effective since April 1st. The goal is clear, and that is to compete with Gogoro’s inflated plans. ...  more

The auto industry is one of the sectors hardest hit by supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic. However, this is not actually the case. ...  more