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Why Tesla Soared as Other Automakers Struggled to Make Cars

January 8, 2022January 8, 2022JACK EWINGComments Off on Why Tesla Soared as Other Automakers Struggled to Make Cars

The yawning disparity between the performance of the electric car company and established automakers last year reflects the technological change roiling the industry.

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Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On

December 28, 2021December 29, 2021Somini Sengupta and Marcos ZegersComments Off on Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On

Chile has lots of lithium, which is essential to the world’s transition to green energy. But anger over powerful mining interests, a water crisis and inequality has driven Chile to rethink how it defines itself.

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In Congo, Bolivia and Beyond, Where the Green Future Begins

December 26, 2021December 26, 2021Emmett LindnerComments Off on In Congo, Bolivia and Beyond, Where the Green Future Begins

The Times’s Race to the Future series is focused on the competition for electric-car resources that will shape the 21st century.

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How China’s CATL Became the Top Electric Car Battery Maker

December 22, 2021Keith Bradsher and Michael ForsytheComments Off on How China’s CATL Became the Top Electric Car Battery Maker

Beijing gave CATL lavish subsidies, a captive market of buyers and soft regulatory treatment, helping it to control a crucial technology of the future.

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Battling for Bolivia’s Lithium That’s Vital to Electric Cars

December 16, 2021Clifford Krauss and Meridith KohutComments Off on Battling for Bolivia’s Lithium That’s Vital to Electric Cars

Chinese and Russian industrial giants seek to tap mineral deposits vital to electric cars. A Texas entrepreneur has his own strategy: the long game.

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Hunt for the ‘Blood Diamond of Batteries’ Impedes Green Energy Push

November 29, 2021November 29, 2021Dionne Searcey, Eric Lipton and Ashley GilbertsonComments Off on Hunt for the ‘Blood Diamond of Batteries’ Impedes Green Energy Push

Dangerous mining conditions plague Congo, home to the world’s largest supply of cobalt, a key ingredient in electric cars. A leadership battle threatens reforms.

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What to Know About the Frantic Quest for Cobalt

November 20, 2021November 21, 2021Eric Lipton, Dionne Searcey and Michael ForsytheComments Off on What to Know About the Frantic Quest for Cobalt

A New York Times investigation examines the global demand for raw materials as the clean energy revolution takes off. This is what we found.

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How Biden’s E.V. Plan Could Help Tesla and Squeeze Toyota

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021Jack Ewing and Neal E. BoudetteComments Off on How Biden’s E.V. Plan Could Help Tesla and Squeeze Toyota

A push to increase sales of electric vehicles favors companies that already have all-electric cars on the market and could penalize those that don’t.

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Nissan Plans U.K. Battery Factory, a Lift for Post-Brexit Automaking

July 1, 2021July 1, 2021Jack Ewing and Eshe NelsonComments Off on Nissan Plans U.K. Battery Factory, a Lift for Post-Brexit Automaking

The Japanese carmaker will also make a new electric vehicle in England as part of a £1 billion investment, partly supported by the government.

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Syria’s Surprising Solar Boom: Sunlight Powers the Night in Rebel Idlib

May 15, 2021BEN HUBBARD and IVOR PRICKETTComments Off on Syria’s Surprising Solar Boom: Sunlight Powers the Night in Rebel Idlib

Cut off from the power grid and with fuel costs soaring, Syrians in a poor, embattled enclave have turned en masse to solar panels to charge their phones and light their homes and tents.

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