In 2021, NIO sold 90,805 cars, a year-on-year surge of 108%. However, its ranking among emerging automakers by sales volume dropped from the first in 2020 to the third. This is mainly affected by three factors.
First, the delivery plunged in October 2021 due to the reorganization and upgrade of the production line as well as the preparation for the launch of new products.
Spain plans to invest 11 billion euros ($12.4 billion) to develop microchips and semiconductors in a bid to modernize its tourism-dependent economy.
“We want our country to be at the vanguard of industrial and technological progress,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday in Madrid, without giving more details. He said the project will be approved soon by his cabinet.
The latest doom-laden report issued by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has highlighted solar as having the biggest potential for energy sector emission reduction this decade.
An international research group has proposed a new design for perovskite solar cells without a hole transport layer (HTL), based on carbon-based materials to replace the metal contact and the HTL.
Solar manufacturer Zhonghuan Semiconductor has increased the prices of all its 170 um-thick solar wafers. The price for G1 products (158.75 mm/223 mm) is CNY 5.74 ($0.90) per unit, up 2.5% over the previous price. M10 (182 mm) wafers are priced at CNY 6.79 each, 2.1% higher than the previous price. The price of G12 (210 mm) wafers is CNY 9.05, up 2.26%.
Plans to reestablish a thriving European solar manufacturing base are underway. As part of the UP Initiative’s upcoming Q2 2022 theme on the topic, pv magazine spoke to Johan Lindahl, secretary general of the European Solar Manufacturing Council to understand the challenges and opportunities for domestic manufacturers, and to discover how they could reach the target of forming a full 100GW solar value chain by 2030
La agencia espacial china asegura que sus astronautas controlarán el enorme brazo robot de su estación espacial con la mente, captando e interpretando su actividad cerebral utilizando un nuevo sistema de inteligencia artificial. Suena a ciencia ficción pero afirman que estará operativo a final de año, cuando se complete el ensamblaje de la Tiangong.
