Ford Motor and its battery manufacturing partner will receive a $9.2 billion loan to build three battery factories in Kentucky and Tennessee, the Department of Energy said Thursday. The loan […]
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Back to news homeTikTok, Shein and Other Companies Distance Themselves From China
Shein said in a statement that it was “a multinational company with diversified operations around the world and customers in 150 markets, and we make all business decisions with that […]
Energy Tax Credits, Meant to Help U.S. Suppliers, May Be Hard to Get
In April, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Qcells, a solar panel manufacturing facility in Dalton, Ga., to announce an early triumph of the Inflation Reduction Act: Summit Ridge Energy, one […]
China Crosses Milestone With C919 Flight but Has Long Way to Go
Millions of flights take off and land in China every year, almost all of them using planes made by Boeing and Airbus, the world’s two leading aircraft manufacturers. For years, […]
Europe Frets U.S. Battery Factory Subsidies Will Hurt, Not Help
European leaders complained for years that the United States was not doing enough to fight climate change. Now that the Biden administration has devoted hundreds of billions of dollars to […]
Australia Tries to Break Its Dependence on China for Lithium Mining
Deep in rural Western Australia, Pilbara Minerals’ vast processing plant looms above the red dirt, quivering as tons of a lithium ore slurry move through its pipes.The plant turns the […]
U.S. Semiconductor Boom Faces a Worker Shortage
Maxon Wille, an 18-year-old in Surprise, Ariz., was driving toward Interstate 17 last year when he noticed a massive construction site: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company at work on its new […]
‘De-Americanize’: How China Is Remaking Its Chip Business
Last October, construction plans for a hulking semiconductor factory owned by a major state-backed company in central China fell into disarray. The Biden administration had escalated the trade war over […]
U.S. Focuses on Invigorating ‘Chiplets’ to Stay Cutting-Edge in Tech
For more than 50 years, designers of computer chips mainly used one tactic to boost performance: They shrank electronic components to pack more power onto each piece of silicon.Then more […]
Danish Wind Pioneer Keeps Battling Climate Change
The contemporary wind power industry, which has spawned hundreds of thousands of spinning rotors generating electricity without putting greenhouse gases into the air, was to a great extent born in […]