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Europe EV Sales Report — The King (Tesla) is Dead, Long Live the (Old) King, Volkswagen

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It was the second best month ever in Europe. Some 365,000 plugin vehicles were registered in Europe in March, rising 22% year over year (YoY), which is a particularly positive sign when considering that the overall market was up by just 3% in the same month, to some 1.4 million … [continued]

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China Walks Away: U.S. LNG Expansion Plans Unravel as Trade War Escalates

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China has just suspended all LNG imports from the United States. No warning, no phasedown, just an apparent state directive that Chinese buyers, including the national oil companies, were no longer to sign, lift, or receive U.S. liquefied natural gas. The decision comes in the wake of a rapidly escalating … [continued]

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Europe Should Buy Chinese Transformers Now Available Due To Trump’s Trade War

7 min read

The global clean energy transition has been throttled by an unlikely villain: the humble transformer. This once-overlooked piece of grid infrastructure has become one of the most critical bottlenecks in the race to electrify everything. As wind and solar projects stack up, as data centers expand to meet AI-driven demand, … [continued]

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China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech

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In April 2025, while most of the world was clutching pearls over trade war tit-for-tat tariffs, China calmly walked over to the supply chain and yanked out a handful of critical bolts. The bolts are made of dysprosium, terbium, tungsten, indium and yttrium—the elements that don’t make headlines but without … [continued]

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