Chips seem to be the most important component of every car at the moment. Since vehicles are full of electronics – digital speedometers, parking aids, or, quite banally, automatic window regulators – each of them needs dozens of chips. But those little semiconductor components are in short supply right now, forvariousf reasons. Around 80 chips […]
With the help of the EU, the German government wants to better assert itself against Far Eastern competition in the shipbuilding sector. “There are countries that are trying in a very clear and sometimes aggressive way to monopolize or dominate parts of the civil shipbuilding industry, and that is why we will not simply let […]
China expects debris from the recently launched rocket to fall into international waters. That rocket remains fell back to Earth is “common in space travel”, the English-language edition of the state-affiliated Global Times newspaper wrote. Aerospace Knowledge magazine Editor-in-Chief Wang Ya’an told the newspaper that China’s space agencies had carefully considered the possibility of falling […]
Chinese electric start-up Nio announced the start of construction of a new industrial cluster called Neo Park at its Hefei site in Anhui province. Neo Park is designed as an industrial and development cluster focusing on electric cars and autonomous driving, Nio announced on Monday. According to Chinese media reports, the project, implemented by the […]
The first module for China’s planned space station has arrived in orbit 400 kilometers above Earth. On Thursday, according to Chinese media reports, the launch vehicle “Long March 5B” successfully lifted off from the Wenchang spaceport on the tropical island of Hainan. After ten minutes, the future main module of the space station named “Tianhe” […]
Volkswagen has begun construction of a new electric car factory in Hefei. The 500,000-square-meter factory is scheduled for completion in mid-2022, Volkswagen Group China announced on Tuesday. The first electric cars are expected to roll off the production line there in the second half of 2023. The plant, which will have a future maximum capacity […]
Joe Biden’s climate summit is over; and now the experts are beginning their analyses: What do the commitments made at the virtual summit by some 40 heads of state and government mean? And does all this also bring geopolitical shifts – new cooperations and lines of conflict, for instance? One of the surprises was the […]
So now it’s clear: China’s President Xi Jinping will attend the virtual climate summit hosted by his US counterpart Joe Biden starting today, Thursday. He will give an “important” speech, foreign office spokeswoman Hua Chunying announced on Wednesday. It will be interesting to see what Xi has to say.As the world’s most populous country, China […]
Social media and gaming giant Tencent is the number one cloud provider on Greenpeace East Asia’s latest ranking of clean energy use in China’s tech sector. Chindata Group again scored first place in the data center operator category.Chindata is the only major Chinese tech company so far to commit to carbon neutrality – starting as […]
German automotive supplier ZF presented the latest generation of its special computer for autonomous driving at Auto Shanghai, as well as what it claims is a globally innovative system for automated parking. Also present was Holger Klein, the board member responsible for Asia-Pacific – which shows that Auto Shanghai is an important leading trade fair […]