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Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World (www.nytimes.com)
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Chinese technology companies are paving the way for a world that will be powered by electric motors rather than gas-guzzling engines. It is a decisively 21st-century approach not just to solve its own energy problems, but also to sell batteries and other electric products to everyone else. Canada is its newest buyer of EVs; in a rebuke of Mr. Trump, its prime minister, Mark Carney, lowered tariffs on the cars as part of a new trade deal.

Though Americans have been slow to embrace electric vehicles, Chinese households have learned to love them. In 2025, 54 percent of new cars sold in China were either battery-powered or plug-in hybrids. That is a big reason that the country’s oil consumption is on track to peak in 2027, according to forecasts from the International Energy Agency. And Chinese E.V makers are setting records — whether it’s BYD’s sales (besting Tesla by battery-powered vehicles sold for the first time last year) or Xiaomi’s speed (its cars are setting records at major racetracks like Nürburgring in Germany).

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[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

There's this really neat thing called nuclear reactors that produce an enormous amount of energy. It's only been around for ~70 years but they look promising.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

solar is Big Nuclear In The Sky - nuclear without the hazard

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

But they can't work at night!

[–] jof@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Right. And how many countries currently use or are planning to use this In a large scale capacity besides France? Oh yea.

No need to be a dickhead.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Works pretty damn well for France. Maybe we should follow their lead.

[–] jof@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I wholeheartedly agree with that. Doesn’t seem like anyone is though unfortunately.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Works great in Finland.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There was even a car that charged itself with solar, they only ran out of money because there was little interest for an unknown new brand

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The cars with solar panels on them are a gimmick. There isn't enough surface area on a normal car to meaningfully charge the battery.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I think you would be surprised. The problem really comes from the car not being a good shape to put solar panels on. I did the math a while back, and I only needed 200w of panels to cover my weekly driving.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

There was never a car that charged itself with solar because it's practically impossible unless you put the car on a turntable at the equator in July.