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CATL is setting up factories around the world as competition grows at home, but it will face formidable, more experienced rivals.Click here to read the article by An Limin.Narrated by Kim Dalrymple.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

CATL is a hugely important company that a lot of people probably haven't heard of. It's grown from nothing to become the world's largest EV battery supplier — with some strong help from the Chinese government along the way. This story of how EV batteries became cheap kicks off The Indicator's week on the climate crisis — how markets, government and businesses can deal with growing emissions.

This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: Chinese Miners Ordered to Divest From Canadian Lithium Projects. Plus, Chinese bank moves to recoup billions of unpaid Evergrande loans, and how Apple supplier Foxconn is trying to stop workers from fleeing Covid lockdown.We also speak with Caixin Global editor Josh Drummer about the success— and the challenges — of EV battery giant CATL as it seeks to expand into international markets.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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- CATL Re-Thinks North American Battery Plants - Automakers to Spend More Than $1 Trillion On EVs - Federal Agencies Boost EV Purchases - 1st Edition GMC Sierra EV Carries Hefty Price Tag - Tesla Aims to Build 50,000 Semi Trucks Annually - Lane Markings Need Improvement for Autonomous Driving - Construction Equipment Promising Application for Electrification

- CATL Re-Thinks North American Battery Plants- Automakers to Spend More Than $1 Trillion On EVs- Federal Agencies Boost EV Purchases- 1st Edition GMC Sierra EV Carries Hefty Price Tag- Tesla Aims to Build 50,000 Semi Trucks Annually- Lane Markings Need Improvement for Autonomous Driving- Construction Equipment Promising Application for Electrification

From California banning the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035 to the scarcity of raw materials and political pressures related to lithium refineries, the questions surrounding EV battery technology and electrification are complicated to say the least. . For insight on these headline-grabbing topics, we sat down with Bob Galyen, Owner of Galyen Energy, LLC shortly after his keynote at The Battery Show in Novi, MI. As one of the top executives in the global battery storage community, Bob's distinguished career includes roles as CTO of CATL (the world's largest battery manufacturer), Chairman of SAE International Battery Standards Steering Committee, SAE Fellow, Chairman Emeritus and CTO of NAATbatt International. . Tune into this episode for Bob's unique perspective on how the global EV market will impact the electrical grid, the cost of battery materials, the intersection of geopolitics in lithium refining, and how these factors impact businesses and consumers. . As we look to the future, the evolution of standards related to battery technology will play a key role in accelerating EV adoption. SAE has expert committees to address this need, including 22 committees that report to Bob as part of the SAE International Battery Standards Steering Committee. If you'd like to get involved, please contact us at podcast@sae.org. . We'd love to hear from you. Share your comments, questions and ideas for future topics and guests to podcast@sae.org. Don't forget to take a moment to follow SAE Tomorrow Today (and give us a review) on your preferred podcasting platform. . Follow SAE on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Follow host Grayson Brulte on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.

On this episode of Market View, Michelle Martin and Ryan Huang look into the significance of Apple's surge in sales despite PC shipments decline in Q3, and how this shapes the expectations of the upcoming earnings season. They also discuss how politics and international relations are weighing on chipmakers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Show #1602 Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily, you trusted source of EV information. It's Friday 23rd September, it's Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to. TESLA RECALLS MORE THAN 1 MILLION VEHICLES DUE TO FLAWS IN AUTO WINDOW REVERSAL Original Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124474187/teslas-recalled-windows US: TESLA CCS COMBO 1 ADAPTER IS FINALLY AVAILABLE https://shop.tesla.com/product/ccs-combo-1-adapter Original Source: https://insideevs.com/news/611782/us-tesla-ccs-combo1-adapter-available/ TESLA'S ORDER BACKLOG IS DECLINING Original Source: https://insideevs.com/news/610971/estimated-tesla-order-backlog-falling/ ONE REVEALS HIGH ENERGY DENSE ANODE-FREE BATTERY CELL: 1,007 WH/L Original Source: https://insideevs.com/news/611007/one-anode-free-battery-cell-1007whl/ KBA CLARIFIES WHAT ABNORMALITIES IT FOUND ON TESLA'S NAVIGATE ON AUTOPILOT Original Source : https://www.autoevolution.com/news/kba-clarifies-what-abnormalities-it-found-on-tesla-s-navigate-on-autopilot-199290.html RENAULT AHEAD OF SCHEDULE ON EV PARTNERSHIPS - CEO Original Source : https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/renault-reach-its-goal-integrated-electric-vehicles-chain-before-2030-ceo-2022-09-22/ RENAULT 5 TURBO 3E CONCEPT DEBUTS TO KICK OFF 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS   Original Source : https://www.evo.co.uk/renault/5-turbo/205223/renault-5-turbo-3e-concept-debuts-to-kick-off-50th-anniversary-celebrations STELLANTIS FIAT 500 ELECTRIC CAR HIT BY CHIP CRUNCH Original Source : https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/stellantis-fiat-500-electric-car-hit-chip-crunch EVGO LAUNCHES 'AUTOCHARGE+': JUST PLUG IN AND WALK AWAY Original Source : https://www.teslarati.com/evgo-autocharge-launch/ GM PUSHING NEW EPA STANDARDS FOR MASS ELECTRIC VEHICLE ADOPTION Original Source : https://electrek.co/2022/09/20/gm-pushing-new-epa-standards-mass-electric-vehicle-adoption/ CATL, WORLD'S BIGGEST ELECTRIC CAR BATTERY MAKER, CONSIDERS THIRD EUROPE PLANT Original Source : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-22/catl-contemporary-amperex-tech-may-build-a-third-ev-battery-plant-in-europe CATL INKS DEAL TO SUPPLY 10 GWH OF ENERGY STORAGE PRODUCTS TO US STARTUP FLEXGEN Original Source : https://cnevpost.com/2022/09/22/catl-to-supply-10-gwh-energy-storage-products-to-flexgen/ CHINESE BATTERY PARTS MAKER PLANS $3.6B PLANT, 2,000 JOBS NEAR BIG RAPIDS Original Source : https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/business/2022/09/20/chinese-battery-parts-maker-eyeing-3-6-billion-plant-2-000-jobs-near-big-rapids/10398128002/ EV CHARGING OPERATOR BUMP UNLOCKS $180 MILLION Original Source : https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/21/ev-charging-operator-bump-unlocks-180-million/ CHARGING STATION MANUFACTURER ZAPTEC IMPLEMENTS PLUG AND CHARGE Original Source : https://chargedevs.com/newswire/charging-station-manufacturer-zaptec-implements-plug-and-charge/ UMICORE INAUGURATES EUROPE'S FIRST BATTERY MATERIALS GIGAFACTORY   Original Source : https://batteriesnews.com/umicore-inaugurates-europes-first-battery-materials-gigafactory/ QUESTION OF THE WEEK QOTW is taking a break for a while. Email your answers to: hello@evnewsdaily.com It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast. PREMIUM PARTNERS PHIL ROBERTS / ELECTRIC FUTURE BRAD CROSBY PORSCHE OF THE VILLAGE CINCINNATI AUDI CINCINNATI EAST VOLVO CARS CINCINNATI EAST NATIONAL CAR CHARGING ON THE US MAINLAND AND ALOHA CHARGE IN HAWAII DEREK REILLY FROM THE EV REVIEW IRELAND YOUTUBE CHANNEL RICHARD AT RSEV.CO.UK – FOR BUYING AND SELLING EVS IN THE UK OCTOPUS ELECTRIC UNIVERSE - GLOBAL PUBLIC CHARGING MADE SIMPLE WITH ONE APP AND ONE MAP. MILLBROOKCOTTAGES.CO.UK – 5* LUXURY COTTAGES IN DEVON, JUMP IN THE HOT TUB WHILST YOUR EV CHARGES

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- Automakers Surprised by EV Demand - Energy Prices Hurt EV Battery Manufacturing in Germany - CATL Develops Battery Swapping for Semis - Renault Trafic Goes Electric  - Ford Transit Gets PHEV, Diesels - ONE Battery Hits 1000 Wh/L - Ford SYNC Spots Pedestrians, Bicyclists - Hyundai and Iveco Make FCEV Van - Bridgestone Develops Lunar Tires

- Automakers Surprised by EV Demand- Energy Prices Hurt EV Battery Manufacturing in Germany- CATL Develops Battery Swapping for Semis- Renault Trafic Goes Electric - Ford Transit Gets PHEV, Diesels- ONE Battery Hits 1000 Wh/L- Ford SYNC Spots Pedestrians, Bicyclists- Hyundai and Iveco Make FCEV Van- Bridgestone Develops Lunar Tires

In der heutigen Folge „Alles auf Aktien“ sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Nando Sommerfeldt und Holger Zschäpitz über Selbstbewusstsein bei Starbucks, Teslas Umdenken in Sachen Grünheide und China-Fantasie bei Moderna. Außerdem geht es um Uniper, Inditex, Danaher, Nvidia, Zoom, Roku, UiPath, Draftkings, Twilio, TuSimple, Ginkgo Bioworks, Verve Therapeutics, Butterfly, Signify Health, CATL, BYD, SAIC, Volkswagen. Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

The IEA has a number for the required solar to halt climate change and it's being built right now! Heat waves make people angry, Californians respond to text alert to save power and blackouts were averted. Tesla's production cost per vehicle is 42% of what it was just five years ago and it's not due to falling battery prices. Some grids in the US have so much excess power, prices are often going negative. They pay you to use power. This is going to become common as we move forward with decarbonization. The specs for the Chevy Equinox have been announced and it's clearly going to make the Chevy Bolt EUV obselete instantly.  James's son's geology professor says there's not enough lithium for 100% electric car sales. He's wrong. Thanks for listening to our show! Consider rating The Clean Energy Show on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to our show. Follow us on TikTok! Check out our YouTube Channel! Follow us on Twitter! Your hosts: James Whittingham https://twitter.com/jewhittingham Brian Stockton: https://twitter.com/brianstockton Email us at cleanenergyshow@gmail.com Leave us an online voicemail at http://speakpipe.com/cleanenergyshow Tell your friends about us on social media!   Transcript of this Episode Brian: Hello, and welcome to episode 131 of the Clean Energy Show. I'm Brian Stockton. BBC News Anchor: We're interrupting our schedules for the following announcement. Buckingham palace has announced the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Brian: What is this, the London Bridge protocol? James: Yes. We've been waiting decades for this, and it's finally happened. Brian: No. Podcasts do not have to follow the London Bridge protocol. Come on. They don't it's fine. But I will say the Queen is dead. Long lived the king. James:I'm James Whittingham. This week, my son's geology prof says there's not enough lithium to go 100% electric anytime soon. I promptly advised my son to quit university and educate himself on Facebook. This week. California didn't have enough power. While other grids in the US. Have so much excess power, prices are often going negative. If I can get the grid to pay me to use my fancy coffee machine, I'll be rich. Tesla's production cost per vehicle is 42% of what it was just five years ago. And it's not due to falling battery prices. It's actually Elon Musk not having to buy horses anymore due to the woke mob. Okay, I don't understand that, Joe. Really? No, I don't. He got a massage and promised a woman a horse. I got it. The California power grid avoided severe blackouts after sending a text alert to citizens. The text said, you up, followed by turn off your lights. All that and more on this edition of the Clean Energy Show. And Brian, this week we also have something from Bloomberg opinion that says the energy transition and its supply chain are at what we need to beat climate change. Already. It's already being constructed. It's quite remarkable. Even apparently, lithium. Yes, high temperatures are making people angrier online. And how are you this week? I'm good. So here's my two updates. I got the latest full self driving update on my Tesla, which is it a big one. Yeah, it's a big 110.69.2. This is the first update I've had since actually getting the full self. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, it's the only one I've had since getting the full self driving software. Only had it a day, only used it once, and it still did that. Same thing where a lot of our streets don't have a line painted down the middle, and it's two lanes, and it started to drift to one side, so I canceled it and just kept driving. Well, Joy? Yeah. And he says they're going to be out by the end of the year. Come on. Yeah, well, a lot of the testing miles have been done in California, so it sounds like the software works way better in California. And we are, sadly, many miles from California, so it's going to be a bit of a struggle here for a while, I think. Do they paint the streets of California? Is that the issue? We don't paint them here. Yeah. Well, I'm assuming all the roads are better in California, but the grass is always greener, as they say, although not during a drought. But anyway, my other updates so I think I said last week, I've applied for the Greener Homes grant, which is Canada's subsidy for retrofitting your home to put in clean energy stuff, insulation. And I'm still hoping to do a heat pump, an air source heat pump for my house, get rid of my furnace. So the process is moving. I've been approved. I'm in the program. They can't do the blower test. So what they do is a blower test on your house to test the tightness of the house, and then you do the upgrades, and they do another one. But because our ceiling, the drywalls opened up in the ceiling in the kitchen, because we were trying to fix those leaks, they can't do the blower test right away. But anyway, I just wanted to mention that I am hoping to go through this process. This is what it's available in Canada, and as we've covered on the show before, the new Inflation Reduction Act in the US. If you're in the US. There's lots of kind of similar subsidies for home improvements and upgrades and energy efficient appliances and vehicles and everything. And of course, different states and different provinces all have incentives, too. And like, our natural gas utility has a little bit of incentive to go to higher efficiency furnaces, gas furnaces and stuff. So anybody listening, always check your local area, your local state, your local province to see what the possible subsidies are. Okay, well, the Chevy Equinox, they finally announced the specs on it. Yeah. So this is the next big electric vehicle from General Motors, which is an SUV that's going to be at a reasonable price. They said this is a small SUV under $30,000 US. Is that cheaper than the Bolt? It's not cheaper than the Bolt now because they lower the Bolt in the US. But the equivalent Canadian pricing would put it lower, I think, than the Canadian pricing, current Canadian pricing of the bolt and worldwide as well. Yeah, and if that's the price for the Equinox, one would think they would eventually drop the bolt below that because that's a smaller car. The Equinox is actually making it hard for me to buy a Bolt because of two reasons. One, it'll render the Bolt obsolete. Even if it's really close in price, it's a bigger vehicle, seems like a better vehicle. It's not as well fitted. Maybe they have some bare bones stuff with the base model. You get a power driver's seat on the base model of the boat and a few other nice things. In Canada, you get ten years of connectivity, or eight years of connectivity. A long time of connectivity. Maybe it's five, but it's a few years. That cover most of your ownership, usually. So I'm just worried about it. Plus, they got the LTM battery pack with that. So that should be approved to charge faster, three times as fast. Peak charging doesn't mean that it's going to charge three times as fast, but the peak charging is three times as fast. So that's what the big drawback of the Bolt is. Well, it's size and it's charging speed on the highway. Well, and I think we're still in a situation where if you decide you want one, you're going to have to head down to GM as soon as you can and kind of put down a deposit because the supplies are going to be limited, especially where we live. So I think that's going to be the situation for the next couple of years, no matter which electric vehicle you decide to buy. And it's going to be at least two years before I get a base model of the Equinox. But let's say I have a four year loan or four year lease of a Bolt. Maybe leasing is the way to go because the Bolt could be under severe price pressure. Right. If the price does go down and I bought the vehicle, then I've got like a dud on it when I'm trying to sell it in three or four years to get an equal option, but at least would give you a sort of a guaranteed buyout price or something. Yeah, but at least they're not too sexy with their offers on the leasing right now. So I really don't know what to do. So I got a message from my son at his geology class. It's not basic geology, it's engineering related. Geology is something that requisite that he's taking. And he says the prof was going on about not having enough lithium. Like this was the day that California solidified their 100% electric vehicles by 2035. Well, he says there's no way, no way in hell, because there's not enough lithium. He's a geologist. He knows there's not enough lithium. That's not true, though. No. From what I understand, and I'm not a lithium expert, but apparently you are, it's not so much that there's plenty of lithium. It's the processing of the lithium that's the difficult part to make it usable for batteries. Yeah. So I looked it up, and I found some sources in the journal Nature, and lithium itself is not scarce, as you said. But a June report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimated that the current reserves of the metal are around 20 million tons. And that's not enough to carry the conversion EVs through to mid century. So the actual amount there, it's the refinery of it, the mining of it. He said it takes ten years to mind to get well. Do your math. It's more than ten years away, and we're going to have a story later about the solar supply chain going gangbusters enough to actually beat climate change. And where there's a will, there's a way. And this is what's happening. Solar is ahead of everybody else. But batteries are coming now and there's money to be made. So presumably if there's money to be made, it seems possible that there will possibly be some lithium bottlenecks where we won't have all that we need. There was an announcement from Tesla recently that they are trying to get a lithium mine or processing plant going in Texas. So the fact that Tesla is getting into it indicates that, you know, maybe they are worried there's not quite enough lithium, but it's all part of the ramp, so I'm not worried. But, hey, I'm not a geology professor, and we're also going to talk about Tesla having an advantage because five, seven years ago, musk was talking about lithium and he was on top of this, wasn't he? No, I mean, this is the advantage of Tesla, is they've been working on all of these things for at least a dozen years now. They've got a nice head start in figuring this stuff out. We were just before we went to record, there was a threat in California of power blackouts, wasn't there? Yes. So they've got a crazy heat wave going on there and they were predicted just at the time that we were recording. They had managed to stave off blackouts for the previous couple of days, but it was all coming to a head just as we were recording our show last week. And they saved the grid. And how did they do it, James? They sent out a text message alert. Yeah. And Brian? It worked. It totally works. It's a crazy thing. It worked. People said, okay, I will turn off my draw up for a couple of hours, or whatever they do in California. And it worked. Yeah. No, I thought that was quite remarkable. There was some graphs posted online of, like, exactly when the text went out and how power dipped. Obviously not everybody's going to listen to that, but that is one of the advantages of everybody having a cell phone here in our province. We had a bunch of emergency alerts for safety reasons a couple of weeks ago, and they were quite alarming to get. Definitely necessary for everybody's safety. Certainly I want to be informed and stuff like that. So if you and I were living in California, we would absolutely have gone and turned off some lights, turned off some power hungry things, and clearly enough people think like us and did that as well. So I've got a pool pump running, right? Yeah, it's about 1000 watts. Wow. Yeah, it's not fun. Swimming pools are not the most environmental thing there, but heating, although you do run yours with thermal solar panels. I heated with solar, yeah, but there's chemicals and water. I should probably do an assessment of that and compare it to having a hot tub, because maybe a hot tub is more my thing. I like the freedom from gravity, Brian. That's what I've been really enjoying the last couple of years is the freedom from gravity. The fatter you are, the lighter you are in water. So I figure I wave it as much as I would on the moon. And can you put a bunch of salt in the water and be even more buoyant? You could, but I wouldn't be able to touch the ground and I don't think I would be walking around floating like a bob, bobbing up and down like a buoy. That's a horrible sight, especially in my speedo. I just bought a bunch of chemicals even after I closed the pool, because I had to. I have to keep it treated until it freezes. And then in the spring, I have to treat it again and kill all the LG. You have to do that with a hot tub, but it's less. But then you heat it. And I can't heat it with heat, with solar panels, but I can't heat it with my thermal heating. Anyway, the pool is closed in winter is here. And that emergency alert that we had, a Saskatchewan resolved itself. The person was caught and died in custody, for what it's worth, but I won't dwell on that. The fact is, Brian, 500,000 homes in California and businesses have been warned that they might lose service. And within five minutes it was all but over. That's all tough. It's five minutes. Maybe people are more conscious of energy demands these days. We never used to think about it before, but maybe now it's not such a crazy thing to send in a text. Yeah, I mean, I think maybe they'd run into problems if they were sending out one of these alerts every couple of days. Eventually people would get tired of it. But if they can limit themselves to once or twice a year, then they can keep people's attention and they'll do it. Maybe we'll have smarter homes. Like my pool pump runs on a smart timer, a smart switch. Maybe if I connected that to the power utility and allowed it to turn off, things like that, I don't know what else it would be. My air conditioner thermostat goes up a degree. Yeah, something like that. Well, actually, Apple has announced a new feature coming, I think with the next update of their iOS, their mobile software is apple is actually going to have a thing where your phone will only charge when there's the maximum amount of green electricity on the grid. They're going to figure out that's cool. Why don't we have a story about that? What's wrong with you? You're the apple guy here. This is it right now. Sorry about it. Tell me everything. Presumably it will figure this out for each jurisdiction because the grid is different every place. But yeah, it'll figure out when there's the most green power on the grid, and it will only charge your phone during that time. See, phones take a lot of power now. They take 20, 40, 50 watts, some tablets take 100 watts. Yeah, that's getting a little bit more serious, especially since we don't have 100 watt light bulbs anymore. We have Led light bulbs. No. And when you think about pretty much every single human being in North America has a smartphone. That's a few hundred million smartphones just in North America. So, yeah, that's a lot of juice when you add them all together. But I've said this before on the show, that I wanted to know when is the greenest time to charge my car? Because we live on a power grid that has 45% coal, something like that. And I want to know, is there more hydro in the mix at three in the morning than, say, if I plugged it in and charged it at seven in the night or something, or even during the day, the business day, and I couldn't get a response from the utility source power. I want to know that. I don't know if they know that. I hope they know that. But yeah, that's a very interesting question. So we'll have to see if Apple figures out our jurisdiction. Yeah, I'd be curious. Maybe they'd listen to Apple and not you. Well, maybe Apple figures it out and then I'll learn from that. And you will know when to charge our cars, because all electric cars have preset timers on them that you can do. A lot of them you can do from an app. And I don't have an app for mine because I bought the base model, but I do set a timer on it every time. Millions of Californians, though, received these alerts that the grid was apparel. Millions of them. Right, interesting. I just wonder, though, if we can integrate our homes into the power grid better, because we're getting smart meters on our house. So that tells the utility what's going on faster in real time. And maybe they can say, well, Joe Schmo at 205th Avenue uses a lot of electricity between five and seven, and he's crashing the grid. Maybe he could find something to cut down on, and maybe they wouldn't send an alert to somebody who has a trickle of electricity because they're gone during that time. Well, that makes me want to skip ahead to one of the stories we were going to have this week again from Bloomberg. And this is about negative power prices. And I've heard about this in the UK and in other jurisdictions, but I didn't realize it was happening quite so much in the US. And so this definitely relates to what we're talking about now. I think basically what you're just asking about here is basically the grid just isn't smart enough yet. It will eventually get there, and it's also not interconnected enough. So in the US, there is seven different utility grids and they're not all connected. It's basically seven regions of seven grids in certain places at certain times. There's excess wind and excess solar. So much so that they have too much power at certain times of the day. This results in negative pricing and encouraging people to just use extra power. And if the grid was further developed, was smarter, there's more home batteries connected to the grid, there's more EVs connected to the grid, and all of those can go either into the grid or out of the grid. That's going to eliminate these problems. So once you start hitting negative prices, boom, that's when your car charges. That's when your home battery charges. And it's coming, it's just going to take a long time. I thought we'd talk a little bit about Tesla this week because there's a lot going on and it's kind of interesting. One thing that I'll start with is a bit of information I learned on Twitter, and that is, you know how supercharger pricing is creeping up, right? It's getting more and more expensive all the time that Tesla sets the price for the superchargers. Yeah, it was super cheap. When I got my car two and a half years ago, it was almost nothing, just a few bucks a charge. And now it's more like 15, $20 a charge, which is annoying, but it's still way better than gas. And it is what it is. Well, now they're saying that it's now the equivalent of a 30 to 40 miles per gallon gas car, which isn't even that great because the Prius is 50 miles per gallon. So it's saying it's like that. Yeah, that's supercharging. By the way, November, you don't always supercharge. You mostly charge at home if you can. Yeah. So that's the caveat there. Yeah. So, yeah, it sucks to pay that much when you're on the road, but still way cheaper than gas. Yeah. And electricity is usually a lot cheaper at home. Plus, if you're like us, you have the option of making it even cheaper by if you can invest in some solar panels and you have a good enough situation with your local utility. Yeah. Martin Avisa, the vice president of investor relations at Tesla, said Monday during the presentation at the Goldman Sachs tech conference in San Francisco, tesla currently has all the supply it needs. This is courtesy of Business Insider. This is an interesting statement. This is a shift from Tesla is always supply constraints with their batteries. Now they have all they need. What happened? Well, it's just all that groundwork that they laid is starting to pay off, which is they basically just saw this coming before everybody else. And it's an obvious thing to you and me, it's like, okay, well, the world needs to get off oil. So what do you do? You do the math and it's like, well, guess what? We need an insane number of batteries. And Tesla figured this out ten or possibly as much as 20 years ago. And so they've been working on this problem for ten or 20 years, and they're just far ahead of the game because that's always been their ethos. It's like, well, no one else is doing it, so we have to do it ourselves. Since they were the first ones up to bat, as it were. So they've just got a big head start, and the other players are figuring it out too. And as we always say, there are announcements every week of new battery factories and such. So as a Tesla investor, it's great news that they are not constrained by battery supply. They're buying them from everybody that will sell them CATL and panasonic. And as well as starting to ramp up their own batteries, we're hitting the S curve of EV adoption, and it is constrained by supply. Yeah. If I want to order the bolt, I have to wait months and stuff like that. It's not just a chip shortage, right? Yeah. And I think there is still a bit of a chip shortage. So they didn't say, like the last I heard was that the chip shortage was the limiting factor for Tesla. They had enough batteries, but they were still a bit iffy on the number of chips. But this more recent statement suggests, okay, well, maybe they've got enough chips now. Well, the statement says, for the first time I can remember, we can access all the supply we need for both businesses. This is something startling as well. The price of manufacturing is only 42% of what it was five short years ago. And it's not due to battery prices falling as expected. It's due to factory design and large castings, like making one large piece of the car instead of a whole bunch of little ones. Efficiencies. Like that. Yeah. All the stuff they set up ten or 20 years ago is starting to pay off. That also makes me think they're making a killing on the markup. So the cars that they make in California at Fremont are a lot more expensive than China. Obviously, Santa Monroe thought they'd be 20% less than China, but they say also in Germany, they're cheaper to make in Germany as well. Yeah, just because it's the new factory with the new design. Their original factory in Fremont was something that they bought from somebody else and kind of had to repurpose it, and that kind of gave them the knowledge to, okay, if we're going to build this stuff from scratch, what's the better design, the more efficient design? And that's what they've got in Texas and Berlin and wherever else they might be building in the future. Yeah. So we have Tesla factories in China, in California, in Austin, Texas, and in Berlin, Germany, and who knows where else down the line. But those are the main ones that are coming online and starting to hit their stride in production, right? Yeah. And really, I think that would be the case if any Automaker was kind of starting up. Now, the problem that the legacy Automakers have is they've been in business for 100 years and they've been doing things a particular way. The businesses have grown in a particular way, and they don't have the luxury of just blowing everything up and starting over again and building new factories. They've kind of got a jerry rigged as they go along. So that turned out to be Tesla's big advantage, was the ability to start from scratch like that. Of course, it meant they nearly went bankrupt several times, but once they passed, once they got over the hump, it's all gravy from this point. Well, I thought it was interesting to know that 10% of the batteries are going into storage, because we had an email about that last week. I think there's an insatiable demand for storage as well. Obviously, it's just a matter of price. When the price hits a certain point, it's going to go crazy because the grid is greening and we need that storage. For yes, and from what I understand, they would maybe do more than 10% of the batteries to storage, but the profits are just way better in the cars. So 10% is all they can manage right now, but eventually more batteries, more grid stores, etc. For so you're basically just selling the batteries with a little bit of equipment, whereas the car is the batteries with a lot of equipment. And so the mark up comes from the bigger spend. So, yeah, it's quite remarkable. And it makes me think that the other manufacturers might be further behind than I thought, which is good if you're a Tesla investor like yourself, because the demand for electric car, man, I tell you, I see so many Teslas, I keep thinking it's you. And it's never you. It's never you. No. I was driving with my partner the other day and I said, look, I have an announcement to make. I'm now going to stop pointing out every Tesla that I see because it's just become too annoying. I used to do that. Hey, there's a Tesla. Hey, there's a Tesla. No more. So, yeah, if you're new to the podcast, full disclosure, I am a Tesla investor. Yeah. Wow. That's actually a big announcement, Brian, because I haven't stopped doing that, and my daughter hasn't stopped doing that. And sometimes she'll text me Tesla. That's what she'll say in the text. It's the punch buggy of our time, really. Exactly. So the supercharger, version four is apparently being set up in Arizona with a mega pack. That's the grid size, truck, container size, storage of batteries, and solar, which is something that Elon has been promising for years, that all superchargers would have a solar installation either adjacent to them or right on top or around them. No, that makes sense. We always see those renderings of the car park of the future where there are solar panels. You park underneath to protect your car from rain, but you also get some free solar charging. So eventually I think most car charging spots will include some solar. It's probably never enough to actually fully supply the cars, but that's fine. So we don't know the speed, the maximum charge rate of these new chargers. In fact, has there even been an announcement on it? I mean, what do we know? No, we don't know too much other than these are going to be prepared for cars other than Tesla's. More so than the other ones. There was going to be maybe a second cable, but now it's sounding more like it would be an adapter. There will be an adapter included with each one. So we think every Tesla charger can be adapted to charge non Teslas, but these ones are going to be designed that way. I wonder how they'll do that with the adapters so people don't steal them because they're worth hundreds of dollars. Yeah, hooked on with a wire or something. I don't know. Maybe lots of video cameras, too. We don't know the charge speed, but what's the maximum charge fees of the version three? It's currently 250, but we believe that even on the version three chargers, they can probably up it to 300, 350, but they haven't done it yet. So most of the third party chargers that are out now, let's call them non Tesla chargers, do 350 like the Electrify America or they are capable of they don't do 350, but they're capable of it. That 1350 is not too difficult to get to that's based on the voltage, I think. So supercharger V four is out and I guess they'll start testing them and maybe announcing what exactly they do. Everybody sort of expects that they'll bump it up a little bit, maybe perhaps for the cyber truck. What do you think? Yeah, like up to just 350 kw or something. Yeah. My car is limited to 170. Have not found that to be a real problem on the highway trips. So I think 250 is fine, 350 is fine, whatever they can do. So they're cranking out tesla's cranking out 6500 power walls. This is the battery packs for home storage a week and 9000 battery packs a week in Nevada. The battery packs are 9000 in Nevada for vehicles per week and 6500 power walls. That's pretty good. People are going to start buying these suckers and battery prices have to go down at some point if we don't run out of lithium. Geology professor they're testing new side repeater cameras with a wider field of view. What do you think of that? What's the deal with that? Is it anything to do with self driving improvements? Or is it just a feature for coolness, for having a better surround view of. The car? I would think it's probably both. I mean, there's always going to be upgrades, there's always going to be new camera modules available, so why not move to the new ones? This is the Clean Energy Show with Brian Stafford and James Whittingham. Every now and again, Brian a Twitter thread. Blows my mind, blows my little head. And this is one of those Twitter threads. It was from David Fickling, a Bloomberg New Energy opinion writer for Bloomberg. He says that solar is on an unstoppable path to solve climate change. And this is something that he didn't know. He's not telling us that. He said he looked into it, he talked to all the analysis and found out that solar is going gangbusters. And not only that, but it's enough to solve climate change on paper and then some by 2050. This is where we have to get to by 2050. He says there's more than enough being built now, basically, to be easily on that path. He says the energy supply to solve the climate is already under construction right now, and it's enough even if the current factories only run at 70%. So it's not like everybody's going to 100% and steam is coming out of the buildings and people are running around. It's like casual 70% is nothing. Anybody who runs less than 70% is not profitable. So he says, I was absolutely astonished to discover this. The solar supply chain we need to reach net zero is already under construction. Current planned and under construction capacity for solar poly silicon industry would be sufficient to support a solar sector producing nearly one terawatt of PV panels every year. That's 1 TB every year. So new solar only generates about 20% of the time. Okay, this is for reference. Nuclear does about 90%, 50% for coal and gas and offshore wind, which surprised me. I thought offshore wind was a bit better than 50%, and it's 35% for hydro. And onshore wind, 35% for hydro. I always grew up with the belief that hydro was a constant. They always say hydro is like a base power, but we're finding out with climate change and droughts that it's not and also seasonal. So it's not. So if hydro is only producing 35% of the time, of course pumped hydro works as battery storage because you just pump it back upstream. You lose 20% of your energy doing that, but batteries lose something in the hand off, too. So, yeah, it makes sense. Pumped hydro is hydro that doesn't depend on nature. This is one terawatt. It's equivalent to 5.8% of annual global electricity consumption. That's right now, right now, every year we are going to make 5.8%, almost 6% of global energy production in solar alone, starting very soon. Not in the 20, fourties very soon. That's amazing. To give it in a bit more context, he said the IEA last year worked out what you need to do to get to net zero this is the International Energy Agency. We worked out last year what you need to get to net zero by 2050, which is our target for climate change, to keep it at 1.5 degrees of warming and start to bring global warming to a halt. Instead you would need an average of 63 year installed between 2000 and 32,050. And he says one of solar alone is getting output now very soon. Under the construction is there to have one terawatt every year. So current polysilicone capacity construction is about $20 billion more than the current production at factories and constantly underestimating growth. Five years ago, the IEA estimated what the solar capacity production would be right now and they are 40% low. And it's the big underestimate of everything we do talk about on this show. So regulatory roadblocks, though this is caveat, are likely to be bigger bottleneck than the supply chain because wind has a lot of regulatory roadblocks and bottlenecks, I guess things like that. Mining too, like we were talking about lithium. Part of it is the permitting process for processing lithium and most panel construction production rather is in China. So political issues could arise. But the gold rush on poly silicon will likely cause prices to crash even further. So this is very positive for the world and it's hard for us to say that the technology and prices are going to solve climate change because the people who are at the forefront of that are hopeful. But it's just hard to say that. But it seems like there is a lot of positive news and this is basically the thesis of our podcast that prices of the technology we talked about is going to change the world and perhaps save it. Yeah, clean energy will win because it's better and cheaper. High temperatures are making people angrier online. So this is another article from Bloomberg. Somebody did a study about when temperatures rise above 30 degrees Celsius or 86 Fahrenheit, hate speech increases on social media when the temperatures go above 30 Celsius. You're kidding. This is maybe not too surprising. I mean, people get hot and they get angry. Actually makes me think of you remember do the Right Thing, the great Spike Lee film from 25 years ago or so. That film takes place on the hottest day of the summer in Brooklyn, right? Yeah. Tempers start to flare because it's so damn hot. And so I don't know, it's maybe just common sense, but somebody did a study and this is a thing that you can measure. You go on social media and you can evaluate the posts and absolutely more hate speech and bad behavior when the temperatures rise. And with climate change, the temperatures are going to be rising more often. You know, whenever there's the first hot day of a season or a hot day after a cold snap, I find that people have road rage around here a lot. Yeah, the speeding and I think the police should model on forecast and other traffic enforcement. Brian, it's time for what do you think? What do you think? This is where I asked Brian what he thinks about topics that I am unsure of. BMW confirms it will adopt Tesla's four six, eight cell format pledging billions of dollars for six global factories. What do you think? Yeah, it sounds like a smart idea. I wasn't sure everybody was going to adopt up the Tesla 46 80 sell. I mean, it'll still be one of many, I guess, but it's a very new form factor. So interesting that other people are adopting it. Electrify America is rebranding it's 350 kilowatt and 150 kilowatt fast chargers and the one will be hyper fast and the other will be ultra fast. Do you know which one is which? I don't know. I think those names are useless because who knows what's faster, hyper or ultra. Tesla solar now has to come with powerwall. So if you buy solar from Tesla, you have to get a powerwall with it, which aren't cheap, by the way. There are thousands and thousands of dollars. I don't know why. What do you think about that? What's the point of that? Well, I mentioned it has to do with their limited ability to they've had some difficulty expanding their solar, so I don't know, they've crunched the numbers and they can only serve a limited number of people anyway, so they might as well do it the way they want to. Elon Musk still says that 6 billion Tesla FSD full self driving beta miles driven by consumers like yourself are necessary for global regulatory approval. Do you know where they're at now? What does that mean? Yeah, it just means there's a lot of miles before it's going to work or what? Yes, I'm surprised that there's any kind of a number attached to it. I mean, the main thing is the software has got to work, so who knows how many billions of miles they're going to need. And they can't process all the data from all those miles, so yeah, I'm not sure what that means. All right, let's briefly dip into the mail bag, Brian. And also the lighting round is coming up later in the show where we'll skip through the rest of the week's headlines. Dear Clean Energy Show, I am an autistic boy named Name withheld to talk about ammonia and hydrogen vehicles in your podcast. Here are some videos about it. And he gave us about 90 links to YouTube videos. And I'm not even exaggerating, there is dozens and dozens of links that he gave, which is great. And he says, credit me under the alias Clasol Blano for giving you the suggestion and the research, please. Fame isn't for me. Have a nice day, gentlemen. That's one of the problems when people write into the podcast, Brian, is fame, instant fame that you have to deal with. And fame is not something for everyone. We understand that it's very fleeting. Very fleeting, yeah. But I definitely want to know more about ammonia and hydrogen. Those are both interesting possible things that can be done green in the future. Absolutely. And we will use some of your research and look at it. And we are hoping to know more and talk more and have some interviews coming up as well, perhaps. So we like to hear from you. Contact us cleanenergyshow@gmail.com. We're on Twitter and TikTok. Hello. We're everywhere. Brian, don't forget our YouTube channel and our Speak Pipe Cleanenergy Show is our handle on Speedpipe.com Cleanenergy Show. And now, of course, it's time for the lightning round. It's time for the lightning round. A fast paced look at the week in clean energy news. And Brian, this week, this year, rather, germany moved to a goal of 100% renewables by 2035. They doubled the goal for onshore wind, tripled solar goals, quadrupled offshore wind guards, all in the space of a few weeks. Thank you, Russia. Thank you, Putin. Yeah, that's working out great. Under the climate change file, unprecedented floods killed 1400, injured 13,000, and damaged 1.17 million homes and destroyed another half million more and washed away livestock and crops in Pakistan, something we haven't mentioned on the show and is under reported in the news. Perhaps we did mention it briefly a couple of weeks ago. I know, but it's true. This is a massive story and all of our thoughts to people in Pakistan dealing with that horrible tragedy. And it's time for clean energy. Class Fact. Brian, a single Tesla megapack. That is the semi truck size utility megapack and hold enough energy to charge how many Tesla vehicles? 40. That's not bad. I mean, the battery packs and cars are pretty big, so, yeah, that's good to know. From Electric Autonomy, Canada. Toronto Fire Services, Canada's largest municipal fire department, is buying his first electric pumper truck. Unfortunately, it'll cost twice as much as a standard one, $2 million. What do you think of that? Wow. I mean, more upfront, but probably cheaper in the long run. That's usually how these things work. They told electric Autonomy, Canada. North American firefighters prefer something bigger and more traditional looking in the fire truck department. So we decided that we were going to build a truck that looked and felt like a North American fire truck, which sounds like it's overbuilt and it's just going to run an electric instead of diesel. Well, time for another clean energy show. Fast fact. In 2020, 70% to 80% of lithiumion battery costs were raw materials this year, but in 2010, it was only 20% to 30%. So, yes, the rest of the battery has come down the raw materials, not as much. But that just goes to show you that making a lot of batteries reduces the prices. Interesting. From Bloomberg, the United States is estimated to host about a third of global crypto asset operations. And get this, it currently consumes about zero 9% to 1.7% of total US electricity usage. Yeah, turn off your crypto in California when the power might go out. Guys, that's the first thing you should start in a clean energy future. Not a big deal, but right now, we don't need that. Panasonic scoped two potential sites in the United States, kansas and Oklahoma for a $4 billion investment in a new lithium ion battery assembly plant likely to support Tesla EV assembly in Texas. They initially selected Kansas, but after the big biden bill, the IRA, the Inflation Reduction Act passed. They said, what the heck, why not both they doubled it. They doubled just like that. There you go. Sign of the time. It's not the future, it's now. No more coal ruling. The EPA recently announced the living of millions of dollars in fines against companies for selling equipment designed to circumvent pollution controls illegal under the Clean Air Act. And I say, God bless you. About time. We don't want any more damn coal. Related that is our time for this week. We like to hear from you. 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When Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway invested $232 million into China's BYD, it was a nascent startup that had just started selling electric vehicles. Fourteen years on, Berkshire's stake is worth $7.5 billion dollars and BYD has dethroned Tesla as the world's biggest EV maker by sales. Between April and June, BYD shipped 3.54 lakh EV units, an increase of 266% year-on-year, while Tesla's global sales grew 27% to over 2.54 lakh units. It also overtook South Korea's LG Energy as the world's second-biggest EV battery manufacturer, behind China's CATL.  The Shenzen-based group is now aggressively pushing into foreign markets, including India where it is set to unveil its first e-SUV soon, with deliveries beginning in January.  The company has been selling its electric MPV e6 to corporate and fleet customers in India since November 2021. Its upcoming model, the Atto3, will also be assembled at BYD's plant near Chennai which has an installed capacity of 10,000 units per annum. Tigor and Nexon EV maker Tata Motors held a whopping 85% share of the passenger EV market in FY22. They were followed by China's SAIC-owned British brand MG Motors at 11.5% with its ZS EV.   According to the Federation of Automobile Dealers Association, out of the 2.72 million passenger vehicles retailed in India in FY22, EVs constituted just 17,802 units or 0.65%. However, this represents a 257% jump over FY21.  Sanjay Gopalakrishnan, Senior VP, Electric Passenger Vehicle Business, BYD India says we have our own technologies that give us an edge. BYD India will initially sell top-of-the-line premium EVs. By 2030, we are aiming at a 40% e-PV market share. India is among a handful of countries that support the global EV30@30 campaign, which aims to have at least 30% of new vehicle sales be electric by 2030. BYD's entry is a sign of the growing interest of global carmakers to gain a foothold in India's EV market. After launching Kona EV in 2019 to test the market, Hyundai India is getting ready to launch its first electric crossover, Ioniq 5, this year.  The South Korean firm has also started developing a small electric car for India as part of its plan to launch six EVs in India by 2028. Hyundai's sister company Kia launched its first electric car in India, the premium crossover EV6, recently.  Sweden's Volvo debuted its electric compact SUV XC40 Recharge in India in July. Tata's electric SUV Curvv will hit the market within the next two years while MG Motor will launch an affordable mass-market EV next year.  Volkswagen is also looking to sell its first electric car, the ID.4 SUV, in India in limited quantities next year. Mahindra & Mahindra will launch five electric SUVs for both domestic and international markets starting in 2024. Tata Motors plans to launch the Avinya, its pure electric car, in 2025. Luxury car firms are not holding back either. Mercedes-Benz will become the first company to assemble a luxury EV in India as it launches three electric cars this year.  Audi India's launched its maiden EV offering e-tron last year. In a span of six months, BMW launched three electric models in India - the iX SUV, MINI hatchback and i4 sedan. Porsche has brought its all-electric Taycan and Jaguar its I-PACE.    American EV startup Fisker is aiming to launch two EVs in India. Experts say the pace of electrification in the luxury segment is expected to be much faster than the mass car segment Sanjay Gopalakrishnan of BYD India says 45,000 to 50,000 EV cars could be sold in India this year. Only the initial 1.5% to 2% EV adoption takes times. EV adoption will pick up when resale market emerges. At the current pace, EVs could make up as much as 1.4% of total domestic passenger vehicle sales this year signalling an increase in adoption. With more than a dozen OEMs vying for India's EV passenger vehicle market, first movers like Tata Motors and MG Motors are set to face some serious co

Lei starts the pod out with the announcement that China EVs & More reached its 10,000th download so both Tu and Lei took a moment to reflect, thank their listeners but also look forward to what's up next for the podcast.Tu then moves over to discuss his adventures getting back to the US including detailing his multiple layover flight that included the screeching halt of the plane he was in headed to JFK. Lei then moves the conversation back to this week's biggest news and summarizes a few of the battery related announcements with a specific focus on CATL. The discussion moves to Li Auto earnings, especially the Li management admitting that they're seeing more cannibalization of the Li ONE from the L9 than they'd originally forecasted. Lei then unpacks XPeng's event announcing their super fast charging that should be available in volume by the end of this year for all new XPeng vehicles.Tu and Lei move the conversation over to the significance (highly) Li Keqiang's visit to BYD and the broader implications of continuing the NEV purchase subsidies in China. Lei's prediction was that it would continue through 2023 and Tu agreed. The pod closes out with a brief chat about what to expect from the Chengdu Motor Show. 

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We dig into why Japan is not making use of their abundant wind resources. Tesla will begin shipping their electric semi truck this year. We look at the details for EVs in the new Biden climate bill. Mazda sold only 8 electric vehicles in the month of July. It's a headline and punchline all in one! An update to the US sending oil to Germany, F150 lightning towing range for my specific situation of a tent trailer, as big as the Biden climate bill is, it's still less then Europe and China, it's not just Volkswagen cheating on emissions. A chinese automaker is upping what supercharing speed can be and, it turns out backyard chickens lay tainted eggs, which was the name of an all-girl punk band at my high school. Thanks for listening to our show! Consider rating The Clean Energy Show on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to our show. Follow us on TikTok! Check out our YouTube Channel! Follow us on Twitter! Your hosts: James Whittingham https://twitter.com/jewhittingham Brian Stockton: https://twitter.com/brianstockton Email us at cleanenergyshow@gmail.com Leave us an online voicemail at http://speakpipe.com/cleanenergyshow Transcript of this episode----------------------------------- Joe Biden: Progress does come. Your dad was right. And when it does, like today, people's lives are made better and the future becomes brighter and the nation can be transformed. That's what's happening happening now. Brian: Hello and welcome to episode 128 of the Clean Energy Show. I'm Brian Stockton. James: I'm James Whittingham. This week I dig into why Japan is not making use of their abundant wind resources. Turns out Godzilla is only partially to blame. Tesla will begin shipping their electric semi truck this year. No word yet if they'll be shipping them via Tesla semi truck. We look at the details for EVs and the new biden climate bill. Small detail not talked about. You have to wear aviators while driving any rebated car. Mazda sold only eight electric vehicles in the month of July. It's a headline and a punchline all in one. All that and more on this edition of the Clean Energy Show. Also this week we're going to talk about an update to the US sending oil to Germany F 150 Lightning towing range for my specific situation of Toyota dent trailer. As big as the biden climate bill is, it's still less than Europe and China. It's not just a Volkswagen cheating on emissions. A Chinese automaker is upping what supercharging speed can be. And it turns out backyard chickens like tasted eggs and Tatted Eggs was the name of the allgirl punk band in my high school. Brian, I just wanted to add something to last week. We were chatting about my new electric bicycle, the ride one up V, two roadster, gravel edition. It does have a smaller battery, which I was saying is one of the main the downsides of it, but you can buy an extra external battery from the company and it clicks into the kind of water bottle spot there on the bike. So for $240 you can buy an extra little battery. What are the stats of that battery, Brian? I do not know the status of the battery. How do I really care? Well, is it a nine volt that you took out of your smoke detector for $200? Or is it actually do something for you? Yeah, it does something. It's a battery the size of a water bottle a little bit bigger. I was talking to you that it was odd because we actually got a press release from Saudi Arabia, from Saudi Arabia arabian energy company boasting about their solar. We've been speculating for a long time because we keep charging in Saudi Arabia whose listed us in Saudi Arabia and if so, send us a message. No one has sent us a message, but someone is listening. By the way, I want to talk to you about shower heads. Why? It's because I just vacationed at your cottage and you're building a new one. And I was thinking all the decisions you have to make, it's like being in a film. What color do you want this car in the background? What color do you want this hat on this extra? Being a director means making countless decisions, actually, until the point where your brain is dead. But you're going to have to make decisions like that on your house because you're building a brand new house. You're going to have to say, I want a faucet. Now. You use your water from a tank, it's shipped in and probably replenished after my family has been there with our desire for showers and cleanliness. Yeah, there's no running water. Everybody has their own cistern, but your tap, when you turn on the tap in your washrooms, it comes out like a fire hydrant. There's nothing restraining it. So I'm thinking, well, first of all, you could probably if you were still going to live there, you could probably buy some sort of aerator to put on. That would be the simple thing to do, just to I mean, we did change the shower head in the guest house to a low flow one because it wasn't before. The showers are the most important. And the toilets, of course, because you want them to be efficient. It's really important. It's not just environmental. It's a matter of conserving water because it's hard to get water. You don't want to run out and keep filling it. Right? Yeah. And we think that we can use kind of a gray water system or we can maybe use rain water or something for the sinks in the toilets. And then I've always wanted I don't know if it's practical for us, but you can get clean drinking water out of the air. They have these things that run, like off the solar panel that just collects moisture from the air and goes through a filter. And that's a possible way to get your drinking water. Yeah. And you don't drink your water out there because you don't trust your tank, right? Yeah. We drink it separate from the water that runs through the house. So that might be a way of getting good drinking water. Hell, I felt my drinking water here in the house, and it's still not great. Is that right? It's still not great. We've got a good filter under the kitchen sink that it's supposed to take out lead. It's like it's the highest level of kind of home water thing, including lead. Oh, that's interesting. I've got an interesting story coming up on lead and chickens buckle up for that one. It's a good story, though. Yeah. So I don't know. And of course, lighting and a lot of people have exterior lighting on their architecture. It's nice to have but is it necessary as it causing light pollution in a provincial park? When you want to see the stars, your star gives it yourself. Are you going to have a driveway? Yeah. Are you going to like the driveway? Yeah. No, those are all great questions. Like, we renovated our kitchen five or six years ago, so we have some taste of what that is like. It's like, yeah, you got to make a decision about the light above the sink. You got to make a decision about the pole handles on the cupboards and the finishes for the cabinets and the flooring, like, what pattern for the flooring and all that. So, yeah, absolutely. Tons of questions to answer. So when I arrived at your cottage, it was a very hot day, and I kind of roasted my fat self a bit broiled, I guess, or deep cooked, or I don't know how you want to put it, a pressure cooked, but I was a bit uncomfortable thinking I got there's no overhangs in this house. The sun is just beating in, but there's no overhangs on my house. Yeah. At all. In fact, there's less overhangs on my house than there is in your cottage. And I seem to manage fine here. I think it's better insulated. I mean, that helps. The right kind of windows help, but the right reflectivity on modern windows helps keep the sun away in the summertime, lets it through in the winter when it's more lower in the sky and a more of a direct angle through the window. So, I don't know. Your architect has come up with a stunning design that is just I really look forward to seeing it like it's just incredibly cool. Yeah. Are you still doing a round window for the bedroom, by the way? I have to ask. No, at the moment it's not round. How come? Probably just matches better if it's not. It's also like, floor to ceiling windows and places. So that's going to be, I mean, in the future, as we said last week with our letter, electricity will be free. It'll be inconsequential that you could heat whatever you wanted to heat or cool whatever you wanted to cool, rather. But right now it could be hard to keep that place cool, depending on how it is in the summer. Yes, I think we're okay because the rest of the walls will be very thick and super insulated, so you kind of allowed a certain amount of glass area before you kind of screw up that envelope. So I think it'll be fine. And then you have presumably, in the round earth construction that you're considering or going ahead with. Is that fair to say? You're going ahead with round earth considering, hopefully. Okay. What's it going to look like? There's no ram, dearth. Then it's going to look like no, that would be a whole different plan. Yeah, we'll see. Well, it's very interesting, though, because the rand earth has sort of stored heat energy. It can take store the cool from the night and let it off slowly. It can store the heat from the day and sort of moderate the house. Now, regardless of how you're making it, if you chose, say, a concrete floor, that would be one way of having heat storage in the house. You might want to go down with a boiler, then that goes through the floor. That's what a lot of people do these days. But then boilers are complicated, as you found out for your rental house. As far as getting heat pumps for them. Yeah, in floor heating seems the most likely. But there are many different ways of heating the liquid that's in your in floor heating. So I don't see that as being a big problem. And then you got to build a podcast studio out there. A little sound booth with good airflow. Well, there's a little kind of home theater room. So I'm hoping that area will work for a podcast. Sure, as long as it has a good view of the lake. Yeah. Then you could shoot yourself as a backdrop then, if you wanted to. Maybe the whole house should be designed around that principle. Brian. I don't know. Anyway, I just wanted to mention that. And another thing I wanted to mention was I was just now looking at the local EV Facebook group as I scrolled through Facebook and I laughed my ass off at something. Somebody bought a brand new EV and they're asking the question that people often ask, where do I charge? What credit cards do I need? Do I need an account with people from different charges? And this is Western Canada, by the way. And Cam Roger responded to this person and said that you will likely find the flow card as being the most useful, as well as charge point to experience the reliability of a Petrol Canada charging session, purchase a lottery ticket. That is to say, your chances of it working are about the same as winning the lottery. I do like a bit of sarcasm, especially when you're angry at something. That really makes me feel good to read that. Some updates to some previously discussed stories. I wanted to mention to our listeners that Connecticut has a new law that EV chargers have to be repaired properly. However, I can't find any information on it. I saw it mentioned on Twitter by someone reliable and I can't find it again. So if you know about Connecticut having a recent law that ensures that EV chargers are repaired within a certain time frame, send me an email cleanenergyshow@gmail.com, because we'll talk about it later. Yeah, I'm sure we have at least one lesson in Connecticut. And my friend Mike mike Noblock bought his first EV. He bought me Ionic Five and I asked him how's it going? He had it for, I think about ten days or so now, and he says it's awesome. It's everything I hoped for and more. It's really fun to drive. Accelerating up to speed so quickly is fun every time you do it. And Mike is not a race car driver, but he's finding this fun. He's a reasonable guy. The ride is really smooth and the seating is very comfy. It's insanely quiet and love charging at home instead of going to a gas station, which is something that people don't realize. People worry about where you're going to charge it all the time. But the fact is you don't take your cellphone to a gas station to charge. It's really cool to do it at home. Imagine we didn't do that. Okay. An update to the ongoing dispute with Germany and Russia. There is a pipeline supplying oil from Russia to Germany, and this is kind of important for Germany. And we've just been keeping tabs on how that's going. There's a second tanker of crude oil coming from America to help kind of fill in the gaps. So 570,000 barrels is due in Germany soon. And this is the second shipment from the US. To help bridge the gap. And Germany is hoping to reduce their reliance on Russian oil and gas by about 90% this year. So let's hope they can manage that. Well, you know, inflation is starting to slow down, at least here in Canada. We had the latest numbers. Yeah. And the price of gas has come down. It's amazing how if everyone drove an EV, it wouldn't be affecting inflation as much. Right. You still have to pay for goods. Goods will go up in price because gas with trucking and so on, until we get long haul trucking sorted out with electrification, which is coming. And Biden is about to sign the inflation reduction as we speak, right? Yes. We've been talking about this for a couple of episodes now. This is a massive, massive bill in the US. I always forget what it's called. What's it called? The Inflation Reduction Act or the IRA. Yeah. And you expect it to be called something like the Carbon Reduction Act. Biden climate bill for is what some people call it, climate bill. But there's a nice article on Bloomberg this week, and it's called the Inflation Reduction Act is a Climate bill, just don't call it one. So it's just a nice little article here about the kind of the vagaries of politics and the importance of naming these bills. It's like governments can kind of force the conversation in certain directions by calling it something they used to just follow boring naming conventions for these kinds of things. But they realized some years ago that PR is an important part of this. It sort of reminded me of do you remember when Walmart was kind of coming into Canada? Like about 30 years ago, walmart came into Canada and really started kind of taking over town to town. They were building Walmarts and putting kind of our local stores out of business. And it was obviously a huge change and a huge thing. A lot of people were upset about it. And it's like this big, massive corporation moving in to take things over. And what did they do? They started these TV commercials. I don't know if you remember this, but it was like they started featuring individuals that worked at Walmart, the Walmart Greeters and the Walmart Cashiers. And they kind of made it sound like it was a small town store. Like it was like the people that work at Walmart are just like your neighbors because they are your neighbors. And there were commercials that focused on exactly the opposite of what Walmart actually is, which is a giant corporation. And it was kind of annoying and sickening. But it's like, well, that's the world of PR. That's kind of how this goes. So the other aspect of that I wanted to kind of mentioned, which we just touched on briefly is so, yes, it is called the Inflation Reduction Act. Is that what it's actually going to be or do? And so there was an analysis that suggested that 41% of our current inflation is attributable to fossil fuel prices. So if this can bring down the price of fossil fuels, bring down the demand of fossil fuels, then, yeah, it actually should reduce inflation. So as you were talking, I looked up a list of ridiculous US. Legislation names that have nothing to do with one, and the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act was one. Okay, well, I think that was one in Canada. Actually. That is one in Canada. Serious time for the most Serious Crime act. The Unborn Victims of Crime Act. Yeah. So that was an abortion related one in the States. It gets weirder, too. And ultimately it's just the name of the bill. Whatever's in the bill obviously, is the important thing. So the other thing I just wanted to mention, which again comes from Bloomberg, our new best friends over there at BNEF, and they crunch the numbers in terms of this new climate bill in the US. And it's $374,000,000,000, which is a lot of money. But their conclusion and these numbers are always kind of difficult to calculate because what's being done by government, what's being done by private. So it's always a bit fuzzy on the numbers. But their conclusion was that this is a really good spend, but the EU and China are spending a bit more than the US. Is with this climate bill. Is that right? Well, that's interesting. Yeah. China being the biggest spender right now on clean energy transition. Getting back to the naming of this act, though, I think there was a column in the New York Times yesterday about how climate has become part of the culture wars. If you're woke, you care about the climate. I don't understand. A little bit worried about where the world is going. In fact, I'm a lot worried where the world is going. Also. I think just today people were sharing a Global mail article that was a Canadian national newspaper about the F 150 all electric lightning pickup trucks, two of them being owned in the prairies here where we live, including one here nearby, Brian and I, and we've mentioned him on the show before I assume the Globe listens to our show. I assume everybody does high ups in Saudi Arabia. Biden's probably listening right now. I know. Sure. So this guy's Lightning says he can this was interesting to me because I've been interested in facts about my own use scenario because I imagined only to pick up traffic and Holly, my tent trailer, my pop up camper, as some people call him, and he says he has one, he's got almost about as big as a Pawpaw trailer as you can have. He says he got 600 km driving around the city of Range, but 330 on the highway with that large pop up camper. So that gives me valuable information as a person who may want to do that in the future. Yeah, that's a good indication of the actual reality of it. Because towing reduces the range by a lot, apparently. But, you know, if I just drove our SUV, gas powered SUV, to the lake, if I towed my Camper, it would have half the range. It would have half the range as well. So that's not bad. I was thinking, oh, you'd have to charge every hour and maybe it'd be worth it because it costs so much, but that's every 3 hours. You don't want to stop that anyway, right? I stopped an hour and a half just to put more oil in my damn engine. Which you won't have to do in an EV. Praise the Lord. My God. I hate that. Yes. No, I had a Nissan Sentra where we had to drive it with a bunch of extra cans of oil, which I put in that movie where we shot at that gas station. I was thinking of putting a hose with a funnel on it inside the cabin so I could just add while I drive. That would be great. Oh, yeah, and one other personal update I forgot about. So I drove my Tesla up to Saskatoon, to the nearest Tesla service center because I had an issue. The suspension started squeaking and the steering wheel was squeaking. So, yeah, they replaced the I should find the exact name of it here. Just give me a second. Is duhickey and the wording at all schmengee. They told me that the left front upper control arm ball joint had seized. So they replaced that one and proactively replaced the other one as well, which it was still working fine. But I think this is probably an issue that they've experienced before. So they went and replaced the upper control arm ball joints, the left and right on the front. Yeah, it took about 3 hours. It's a two and a half hour drive to get up there to start with. But I got there first thing in the morning and they gave me a Tesla Model X as a loaner to drive around town while I was there. I may go up there this weekend. Do you think they'll give me one for no reason. No, I don't think they will. This is from Drive Tesla, Canada. And this is just our opportunity to mock Mazda or Mazda, depending on where you live in the world. Only sold eight of their electric cars in the US in July of 2022. This is a very sad and pathetic number, but it really is, I don't know, a compliance car. I don't know who would buy this or why. It's only got 100 miles, range 160 km. Somebody who really likes Mazda. Someone who really likes Mazda. And I could see it maybe, I don't know, certain business case situations where you're making short little trips or something, but this is not much range than your 25th. You should buy one just to sell because it's going to be such a rarity if they stop making yeah. Like the actual numbers. This is going to be one of the most rare cars you could possibly own. That's incredible. Yeah, they've got a very short range. The reminiscent of the early Leafs, right? Absolutely. No, this is similar range to your car. Yeah. Why would you do that nowadays? My car was made a lifetime ago. So I'm going to have some details here. But the inflation Reduction act for EVs, because we didn't get into details about this, consumer Reports broke it down the other day. So, among other provisions, the new bill will do the following. It offers a tax credit up to $4,000 on used EVs. This is new, but they have to be put into service after December 31 of next year. December 3118 months from now. The vehicles built and registered 18 months from now will be possible to buy them used with a $4,000 credit. So that's a ways off. It takes away the $200,000 vehicle cap on tax credits that made EVs and plug in hybrids from Tesla, GM and Toyota ineligible for tax cuts because they've sold more than 200,000 of those vehicles in the United States and have used up their tax credits. So, people, that's one reason why GM dropped the bolt price by $6,700, you asked or something to make up for that. Because Tesla doesn't care. Because they have way more demand than they can do. But it does away with tax credits for pricey EVs. This is something that we see criticized locally here in Canada in the news. Why are you giving tax credits to 150,000 more cars like the Model X or something? So it doesn't weigh with today's tax credits for price EV such as the Hummer EV, the Lucid Air, Model S and X, and Poll Star, I would imagine, and Porsche and stuff like that, it eliminates tax credits for vehicles not assembled in North America. This is a critical one here because this is going to eliminate the tax credit for the BMWs, the Hyundai Ionic five, the Kia EV six, the Toyota BZ four, X not assembled here. Maybe one day they will be because like Nissan with my car. They did two years in Japan and then they opened up a factory in Tennessee and one in the UK. Maybe they'll do that and maybe they'll be selling a lot more vehicles. But most important, the bill also immediately restricts the full tax credit on new EVs to vehicles with battery minerals sourced from countries that the US has a free trade agreement with, or recycled in North America. So you can buy a car that has recycled batteries if they're recycled in North America, but you can't buy Chinese ones. So starting in 2024, if any materials, minerals or components are sourced from foreign entities of concern, you know who you are, china and Russia, the vehicle will not qualify for tax credit. So that is tricky. We're going to continue to talk about that, Brian, because nobody seems to know how that's going to wash out. Yeah, because it could be difficult to ramp that up, because I think China in particular is kind of the world leader in sourcing these minerals and processing them. And so it does make sense that we often talk about energy security. I mean, if you've got to rely on shipments of oil from places like Russia, you realize suddenly when they go to war, oh, man, that was a really bad idea. All this stuff impacts the security of your country if you can't source it yourself locally and Russia start going to war. Stupid idiots. Yeah. Please stop that. The Tesla semi truck is going to ship this year, Elon Musk announced on Twitter, and it's going to have 500 miles of range. And the Tesla Cyber truck with 500 miles of range is going to start shipping next year. So this is a fairly definitive statement. We've been really wondering when electric semi trucks are going to finally start rolling. There's still not much in terms of semi truck charging infrastructure, so I'm still expecting to hear more about that. We've only heard of a handful of places that have the new Tesla semi charger infrastructure for charging. So this will be kind of a slow roll out, I think, because of that, because of the lack of charging infrastructure. But they can probably, in some cases, charge at the existing Tesla chargers. But trucking is a huge part of carbon emissions, so once semis all go electric, this is a massive step forward in carbon reduction. I'm looking forward to the next cyber truck event where they update the preproduction, what's actually going to really happen for real. And we'll notice back the costs. The cost might go up. Yeah. No, they pulled the prices down off their website several months ago amidst this massive inflation that's happening. But I wouldn't be surprised if the prices are double what they were originally close to. That so much for my order. Yeah. One day, Brian. One day. My son and I have often discussed Japan. I can't remember the details of why, but we have this long discussion. I said, well, one day I'm going to look into why Japan has no wind. He says, Why don't they do wind? Because he thinks they don't have any wind because nuclear is so great. While they shut down their nuclear, they're bringing it back tepidly a little bit at a time. But when they had their Fukushima disaster, they shut down a bunch of their nuclear. It's easy for us to say nuclear is safe, but when you're there and you're experiencing what they did, you're going to probably have a different opinion. So I looked at the reason. I finally found an interesting paper and article about this year and a half old. It says that there's limited understanding of the seabed conditions surrounding Japan, unlike other locations such as the United Kingdom, because they benefited from oil and gas exploration for decades. Right. So in that north coast there, off of Europe, lots of oil and gas exploration for decades. So they understand it. Now, there's another benefit to oil and gas, is just understanding the seabed for. So they have a limited understanding of what the seabed even is because they don't go down there looking because there's not oil and gas there. It is the 7th longest shoreline in the world. So there's lots of wind opportunity there. Another reason they've been slow is conservative government policies. Lots of different departments not working together. They actually permitted some wind projects that were three years long and kelsey breeze, there was no bitters. This is a 40 year thing, Brian. Another problem is their water gets very deep very quickly, down to 200 meters. It's only 50 meters close to the shore, but after a while it gets down to 200 meters, which is quite too deep for offshore wind. But there's new technology around that wasn't there ten years ago, including floating. So there's a huge opportunity for floating wind potential. And the wind potential, to my surprise, is not great on Japanese land. Not that great at all. So the best potential is in the ocean. Another setback or drawback is that most of the wind potentials in the north with is less population. So you have to unfortunately send that power. I wonder if they couldn't do it through the ocean. If you were in Japan and you had a whole bunch of wind in the north, all these countries are doing undersea DC high power cables, maybe because nothing gets disturbed. You just drop it on the seabed and you don't have to build towers and bridges and do land studies. You just drop it down there and nobody gets hurt. Not even a fish. Fishing concerns. They're concerned about fish. The nuclear disaster, as you said, they temporarily shut down 54 power plants, which is a lot I don't even know. They began shipping coal and natural gas. That's no way to go, but that's not good for the planet. So Fukushima was a turning point. For the nation's attitude towards nuclear power as the associated risks and costs and costs became apparent. We always talk about the cost of nuclear. And even though a limited number of reactors are being restarted, it's unlikely that nuclear power will ever return to such a dominant position in the Japanese energy mix. So, yeah, the water depth drops to 200 meters, around 20 offshore. So you have a little bit of space to work with. And nevertheless, Japan has a large resource potential. This is a study done with the potential of win of 61 gigawatts in relatively shallow waters. That's just the shallow water potential. It's not floating there or anything like that. And remember, a gigawatt is about a nuclear reactor, so you might say, James, the wind doesn't always blow well on the ocean. It does in some places. It does almost around the clock. And by the way, this is a bit of an aside, but the first North American freshwater offshore wind farm will be in Lake Erie. Did you hear about that? Yes, I did hear a little something, yeah. So, Lead Co asserts that the Great Lakes hold enough energy potential in wind to power the entire stinking United States. The winds of Lake Erie alone could meet over 10% of the electricity needs by 2030. Just in Lake Erie. Lake Erie is not a big lake. Lake Erie is a small lake. But, yes, Chicago, the Windy City and all these places, there's wind out there and terrible polluted waters that you could stick wind turbines in, and they're not so deep that you can't do it. That's interesting. I wondered when that's going to happen. Well, I would wonder about the I don't know, unsightliness of it. It makes more sense to me if they're off in the ocean. People might be annoyed if the Great Lakes are full of wind turbines, but I don't know. Hard to say. Now, I'd be interested to know what the distance is. Maybe one of our listeners can send in an answer to this. What is the distance where wind turbines start to fade? Not from the curvature of the Earth, but just the atmosphere sort of blurs them out? Because you see ships offshore in the ocean, they're kind of faded. They're barely visible because even on Toronto, off Toronto, you see them like that. So how far do you have to go before it's an ISO? I guess it's my basic question. Yeah. And farther out would be better. As long as it doesn't get too deep, I guess. Okay. There is a story here. I got this from CNET, and the story is a couple of weeks old, but I thought it was worth talking about it because we didn't mention it before, but Fiat Chrysler has been ordered to pay $300 million in fines over their diesel emissions fraud case. So it's not just Volkswagen that was cheating on emissions. Fiat Chrysler, which is now owned by Stallantis 300 million in fines for lying about the emissions of more than 100,000 Jeep and Ram diesel vehicles. So this was been going on since 2017. They were first accused of doing this, and it takes a long time for this kind of stuff to wind its way through the courts, but it has finally come down and they are guilty. And it's 300 million is the penalty. The US Department of justice this week announced that FCA has been sentenced in federal court to pay about 300 million in criminal penalties in addition to serving three years of organizational probation. What do you suppose that is? Organizational probation? Probation for the organization, I guess. Oh, wait, I think we have a clip. The time has come for someone to put his foot down, and that foot is me. Then as of this moment, they're on double secret probation. Ah, that's what it is. They're on double secret probation. What movie is that from? I was wondering if you would recognize it. Is it a Naked Gun related movie? No, it's Animal House. Oh. And it's extra fun because that's the great Vernon Agapsawitch, known to the world as John Vernon, who is from our city of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Yeah, but yeah, I just always remembered that clip of double secret probation. He passed away a few years ago. Yes, not that long ago. And he ended up making a movie here and late in his career before he died, which was nice. I forget the name, but it had Molly Parker and Callum Keith Rennie was in it. It was shot. I visited the set one day. I actually took pictures of John Vernon on the set of this kind of western. That's really cool. But Brian, it's time. It's time. It's time for the clean energy show. Lightning around. A fast look of the rest of the week's headlines in clean energy and climate change. Brian, where has the time gone? China's CATL plans a massive 220 1 battery factory in East Hungary. Yeah, because why? It's Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday. It doesn't matter. Because there's a new day, there's a new $7.5 million battery factory every week. The planet will be capable of outputting 100 gigawatt hours of batteries a year. That is 100 nuclear reactors powering for an hour per year from this battery factory. And Mercedes Benz has already gone on record stating that it will be its first customer. You know what the sound is? Time for a clean energy show. Fast fact. Charging your electric car at home costs equivalent of or less, which is about a dollar 20 a gallon. Tesla is reportedly going to build model wise with BYD blade batteries in a gigafactory Berlin. What do you think, Brian? Because I'm kind of curious. Yeah, this is interesting. This is a battery form factor that Tesla has never used before. But since Tesla's goal is to dominate the Earth, they're really buying and using whatever possible batteries they can get their hands on. So BYD has been making these blade batteries, which are not exactly blade shaped, but they come in these sort of flat panels and they're all kind of packed together in a battery pack. So, yeah, I guess Tesla has figured out how to stuff those into their vehicles. So I don't know. It should be good. More supply batteries, the better. Oh, it's another fast fact. And this brings us back to backyard hens, which I've been waiting to talk about. Yeah. Backyard hens eggs contain 40 times this is backyard hen in cities, okay, not in farms, contained 40 times more lead, on average, than shop eggs. You think you're growing your own eggs and they're healthier? No, that doesn't sound good. It depends on the lead levels of your soil, where you live, which vary across various cities and then vary within the city. In older homes, close to city centers, contaminated soils can greatly increase people's exposure to lead through eating eggs from backyard hens. And I was thinking, again, a chicken Brian, because they make good pets. Sorry. Most lead gets into the hens as they scratch the dirt and peck food from the ground. Can you imagine the lead levels where I live? I've got a refinery, I've got a smelter over yonder. I mean, it's not good at all. It's probably not good. And if any of our listeners, if you have hands and you're eating the eggs, maybe they're somewhere nearby where you can get them tested, maybe good advice, because I think that there probably is somebody listening to our show or some people, and they're going to be soiling their pants right now and not very happy about that because I know you don't want to talk about it. It's just that bad. It's one of those things that I came across that I thought was important from carbon tracker. The UK government's Oil and Gas Authority has estimated the total bill for Northeast oil decommissioning will be £51 billion. Now, because of the government's tax policy, the British taxpayer will be responsible for at least 40% of that cost over the coming decades. This is something we're going to be talking about a lot. It is. The reality of gas going away. We are going to get stuck with the bill, aren't we? Yeah. And there's been a lot of talk in the UK lately. There's some sweet tax deals for oil and gas companies in the UK. They're getting a bit of a free ride, which is unfortunate. California has adopted 2045 as an offshore wind target plans on installing 25 gigawatts by that time. That is, again, 25 nuclear reactors worth of almost I mean, not quite, but optimistically, if the wind never stopped, that's what they would be. And just as a comparison, it's not insignificant. That is a lot, a lot of power by 2045. So Xpeng is releasing its S four superchargers. This is a chinese EV manufacturer. They've just announced their S Four superchargers on Supercharger Day. That's not Tesla supercharger day. That's a Chinese company. They've opened 1000 superchargers so far in China, and they say, and they demonstrated this with their new model of car, 210 km, or 131 miles of charging in range and five minutes of charging. And they demonstrated that. So ten to 80% of a full modern large battery in as little as 20 minutes. This is an 800 volts class EV charger with a peak power output of 480 kw, which I think is probably around where we're going to stop as around there. I don't think we're going to go I don't think we need to, really? Yeah. And you always wonder at a certain point it will maybe degrade the batteries if you end up charging too quickly. But I think those figures are we probably don't need to go faster than that. And with new battery chemistries allowing for stronger and stronger charging and things like that, who knows what's going to happen? But that, Ryan, is our time for this week, for the summer show fires an email right now, cleanenergyshow@gmail.com. We're on Twitter, we're on TikTok or even on Instagram. We're everywhere you want us to be. We have two YouTube channels now, by the way. One for audio, one for everything else that has video. So go there, find us, watch the show, watch our clips, tell your friends. And if you're new to the show, remember subscribe, subscribe on your podcast app because we put out new shows every week and they'll be delivered right to you. And we look forward to talking to you. Bye for now. Next week. See you next week.

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This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: Sino-U.S. relations continue to suffer in the aftermath of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's controversial trip to Taiwan; the U.S. expands its ban on the sale of semiconductor design equipment to China; Chinese electric vehicle battery maker CATL sues a rival over alleged IP infringement; troubled property developer Evergrande abandons plans to build a massive soccer stadium in Southern China; and China's two largest online game publishers see zero new titles approved in the latest government list.In addition, we speak with Caixin Global's Nandini Venkata about Alibaba's turbulent ride in the U.S. as it faces a potential delisting over the ongoing audit controversy.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

- Ford Sales Worth the Wait - Toyota's Profits Fall - Most EVs Won't Qualify for Federal Credit - BMW Could Help Other OEMs Modernize Plants - Counterfeit Parts on the Rise - Porsche Aims to Speed Up Vehicle Development - CATL Not Likely to Open Plant in the U.S. - Mid-Size Cars Struggle on Updated Impact Test - Lucid Cuts Production Forecast in Half

- Ford Sales Worth the Wait- Toyota's Profits Fall- Most EVs Won't Qualify for Federal Credit- BMW Could Help Other OEMs Modernize Plants- Counterfeit Parts on the Rise- Porsche Aims to Speed Up Vehicle Development- CATL Not Likely to Open Plant in the U.S.- Mid-Size Cars Struggle on Updated Impact Test- Lucid Cuts Production Forecast in Half

Beijing will suspend trade in certain products and impose sanctions on ‘pro-independence' institutions; Macao resumes quarantine-free travel with Zhuhai; and a co-founder of battery titan CATL resigns. Are you a big fan of our shows? Then please give our podcast account, China Business Insider, a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

➤ Tesla reportedly begins implementing game-changing new charging feature ➤ CATL reportedly delays factory announcement in wake of Pelosi visit to Taiwan ➤ Tesla add news Supercharger attraction in Germany ➤ Toyota continues to struggle with bZ4X recall Shareloft: https://www.shareloft.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/teslapodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tesladailypodcast Tesla Referral: https://ts.la/robert47283 Executive producer Jeremy Cooke Executive producer Troy Cherasaro Executive producer Andre/Maria Kent Executive producer Jessie Chimni Executive producer Michael Pastrone Executive producer Richard Del Maestro Executive producer John Beans Music by Evan Schaeffer Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

APAC stocks were mostly kept afloat following US House Speaker Pelosi's safe arrival in Taiwan but upside was capped by China's response.21 PLA jets entered Taiwan's ADIZ, while Chinese battery giant CATL is reportedly pausing its North American battery plant announcement.European equity futures are indicative of a softer open with the Euro Stoxx 50 future -0.2% after the cash market closed down 0.6% yesterday.DXY is softer but remains on a 106 handle, JPY is the marginal G10 outperformer, EUR/USD is back below 1.02.Looking ahead, highlights include EZ, UK & US Composite/Services PMI, German Trade Balance, Swiss CPI, EZ Retail Sales, US Factory Orders & ISM Services PMI, OPEC+, Speeches from Fed's Barkin, Harker & Kashkari, Supply from Germany.Read the full report covering Equities, Forex, Fixed Income, Commodites and more on Newsquawk

Beijing condemns U.S. lawmaker's trip; EV giant CATL steps up patent lawsuit against competitor; and China's game approval list omits Tencent and NetEase again. Are you a big fan of our shows? Then please give our podcast account, China Business Insider, a 5-star rating on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Tu & Lei begin the pod with a discussion about the unveiling of the RT6 - an Baidu Apollo branded, Level 4 capable robotaxi that will be hitting the streets sometime next year at the cost of ¥250K (~$37K) and the greater implications of Baidu's mobility strategy. Tu speculates that we could see announcements from Baidu about pilots launching outside of China next year.Tu moves the discussion over to battery cell manufacturers and how they're likely being approached by the legacy automakers with the opportunity to globally supply cells in the US + China + the EU(where applicable). Lei talks about Ford's bold announcement about a partnership with CATL.The topic of discussion then moves to Didi, its massive fine and what's next for them. The podcast closes with Tu & Lei briefly discussing the current foreign / local JV situation, Li Auto's 'spring-gate' and Tu's quick takes of the week. 

We took a week off to recharge but we’re back with a packed show. Roberto went to Germany to drive the Mercedes-Benz EQXX concept and the production EQB evs. Sam drove the 2023 Nissan Z and the Ford Mach-E GT Performance Edition. Nicole had the Mercedes-AMG GLB. In the news, Chevrolet unveiled its Mach-E/Model Y… Read More »Failure to Charge

➤ Deutsche Bank tells how they feel about Chinese EVs after test drives in Norway ➤ CATL chief scientist says energy dense M3P batteries are already in production ➤ CATL to invest up to $2.1 billion in new production base in Shandong province ➤ Postal Service bumps up EV mix in delivery fleet order ➤ Ford hires exec with Tesla background to dogfight competitors for EV materials ➤ Geely-Backed Zeekr Unveils Electric MPV Zeekr 009 ➤ GAC AION's 2nd factory to start production in Q4 2022 ➤ iHeartRadio Will Power Vinfast Electric Vehicle Models in the US ➤ FedEx Receives 150 Electric Vehicle Delivery from BrightDrop ➤ Fully electric vehicles most popular fuel type on BVRLA leased fleet ➤ Secret Shoppers: Traditional Dealers Better at Selling EVs ➤ EV battery health ‘must' join mileage and age as key used car valuation metric

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. This week, we discuss Tesla's (TSLA) earnings results, Tesla Supercharger V4, the Chevy Blazer EV, our first real Mercedes Drive Pilot test and more. Sponsored by Aventon: Aventon's award-winning Pace 500 & 350 set a standard for upright cruiser ebikes with new upgrades and design features. Check out the full line on Aventon's website. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek's YouTube channel. As a reminder, we'll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in. After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts Spotify Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS We now have a Patreon if you want to help us to avoid more ads and invest more in our content. We have some awesome gifts for our Patreons and more coming. Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast: Tesla (TSLA) releases Q2 2022 financial results: another beat despite tough quarter Tesla (TSLA) reports massive increase in production capacity across all factories Tesla surpasses 35 million miles driven on Full Self-Driving Beta, pace is ramping up Tesla (TSLA) announces it sold most of its Bitcoin Tesla aims to start 4680 battery cell production at Gigafactory Texas this quarter Tesla's energy division achieves record quarter for everything except solar roof Tesla stops scheduling solar roof installations in most markets Tesla Supercharger V4 design revealed in new station plan Elon Musk is at risk of losing top Tesla lieutenant over suspicious order of ‘special glass' Tesla strikes deal to have its own exclusive lane at US-Mexico border Tesla battery supplier CATL is scouting new factory sites in Mexico 2024 Chevy Blazer EV: Up to 320-mile range, $45-$66k MSRP, ‘Police Pursuit' EV reckoning comes to Ford as it cuts 8,000 ICE jobs to focus on electrification Ford secured 60 GWh of battery supply to achieve production of 600,000 electric vehicles Mercedes DRIVE PILOT test: Level 3 luxury, coming soon to US Here's the live stream for today's episode starting at 4 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET): https://youtu.be/_scL-V5pKMk var postYoutubePlayer;function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady() { postYoutubePlayer = new YT.Player( "post-youtube-video" ); }

- Tesla Posts Strong Q2 Earnings- Ford Lines Up Batteries and Raw Materials- Ford to Cut 8,000 Jobs- Former UAW Leaders Handed "Get Out of Jail" Cards- U.S. Post Office to Buy a Lot More EVs- VW And That 153 Days Supply of ID.4s- Honda Reveals "Most Powerful" Civic Type R- Brembo's Big Brake-Through

- Tesla Posts Strong Q2 Earnings - Ford Lines Up Batteries and Raw Materials - Ford to Cut 8,000 Jobs - Former UAW Leaders Handed "Get Out of Jail" Cards - U.S. Post Office to Buy a Lot More EVs - VW And That 153 Days Supply of ID.4s - Honda Reveals "Most Powerful" Civic Type R - Brembo's Big Brake-Through

➤ Release notes for next FSD Beta update leaked ➤ Earnings week kicks off ➤ Update on Giga Shanghai upgrades ➤ New application from Tesla on Giga Texas ➤ Used Tesla prices rising much faster than other brands ➤ Updates on Panasonic, CATL, and 4680 battery ➤ Musk comments on Tesla HVAC product ➤ Twitter case updates Shareloft: https://www.shareloft.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/teslapodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tesladailypodcast Tesla Referral: https://ts.la/robert47283 Executive producer Jeremy Cooke Executive producer Troy Cherasaro Executive producer Andre/Maria Kent Executive producer Jessie Chimni Executive producer Michael Pastrone Executive producer Richard Del Maestro Executive producer John Beans Music by Evan Schaeffer Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

- Aftermarket Business Exploding - Kia Planning EV Pickup For the U.S. - CATL Eyes North American Expansion - Hyundai Partners with Rolls-Royce on Fuel Cell VTOL - Porsche Wants to Go More Upscale - Fully Assembled BMW's to Park Themselves - Chevy Blazer EV Launches Next Summer - Toyota Continues Its Push Into Fuel Cells - Honda Civic Turns 50

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Aventon: Aventon's award-winning Pace 500 & 350 set a standard for upright cruiser ebikes with new upgrades and design features. Check out the full line on Aventon's website. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they're available. Stories we discuss in this episode (with links): Tesla's new Full Self-Driving Beta (10.13) is about left turn, animal detection, speed limits, and more Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2022 financial results preview: Here's what to expect Tesla has a new self-diagnostic feature in its app Stellantis terminates Jeep joint venture with GAC in China after failed takeover attempt Lotus completes billion dollar factory in China, rolls first all-electric Eletre off assembly line Tesla battery supplier CATL is scouting new factory sites in Mexico https://youtu.be/_toDHJNdcNo var postYoutubePlayer;function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady() { postYoutubePlayer = new YT.Player( "post-youtube-video" ); } Subscribe to the Electrek Daily Channel on Youtube so you never miss a day of news Follow Mikey: Twitter @Mikey_Electric Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify TuneIn Share your thoughts! Drop us a line at tips@electrek.co. You can also rate us in Apple Podcasts or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show!

- Aftermarket Business Exploding- Kia Planning EV Pickup For the U.S.- CATL Eyes North American Expansion- Hyundai Partners with Rolls-Royce on Fuel Cell VTOL- Porsche Wants to Go More Upscale- Fully Assembled BMW's to Park Themselves- Chevy Blazer EV Launches Next Summer- Toyota Continues Its Push Into Fuel Cells- Honda Civic Turns 50