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CATL Makes Big Announcement on Sodium Batteries for 2026

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Sodium-ion battery development has been a major story in 2025, as Chris Arcus has been especially eager to highlight and explain. In 2026, I think it could be the biggest battery topic. Battery giant CATL, the largest battery producer in the world, is leaning into the topic and made a … [continued]

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Two Charts, One Grid: Clean Electricity Is Getting Cheaper But Feels More Expensive

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The argument begins with a pair of charts that appear to contradict each other while describing the same reality. One plots nominal residential electricity prices against carbon intensity for the ten largest electricity producing countries in 2015 and 2024. The other uses the same data but adjusts prices for inflation. … [continued]

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XPENG–Peking University Collaborative Research Accepted By AAAI 2026: Introducing A Novel Visual Token Pruning Framework For Autonomous Driving

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XPENG-PKU Research Breakthrough: XPENG, in collaboration with Peking University, has developed FastDriveVLA—a novel visual token pruning framework that enables autonomous driving AI to “drive like a human” by focusing only on essential information, achieving a 7.5x reduction in computational load. Top-Tier AI Recognition: The research has been accepted by AAAI 2026, one of the … [continued]

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