We can now get cheap 22kW chargers for home use. But yes electric cars are still expensive, we are hoping 2nd hand EV will drop in price quickly, because there are always new better cars coming out. Here you can almost buy a house for what a new EV with good range cost.
Here it cost extra to use fast chargers, but we have from 50 to 300 kW. But already at 100 kW it’s already more than twice the normal cost of electricity.
We have solar panels, so we would really really like an EV? That’s free charging half the year. 😎

Charging this fast is always battery to battery, right?

It’s DC but I think it’s from grid through inverters. And those inverters are quite expensive. My guess is they can go on indefinitely.

Great article, but when comparing to BYD 5 min charging, the CATL system is incomplete.
The new CATL battery can handle faster charging, but they haven’t made chargers that can handle or deliver the needed power, to charge that fast.

BYD has built the the entire infrastructure from charger to battery, the charging system in the car can handle the 1MW charging power required. (1000 volt at 1000 amp). A battery that can handle it from 10-60% And finally they are setting up charging stations that can supply that level of power.

The CATL battery is great because it shows we can go even further, but BYD has their system available NOW!

What may be the biggest benefit IMO though, is that the new CATL battery will allow cars to charge very fast even with smaller batteries. Which may introduce a completely new type of cheap EV with medium range that can charge super fast, so they can still be used reasonably well for occasional longer trips too. This is also helped by the more than twice as high durability of the new battery. Smaller batteries need to be charged more often, and these batteries can handle that too.

Chinas been threatening smaller countries to try to stop them from aligning with Americas policies here.

WTF else did you expect? If we align with USA we obviously get the same treatment as USA. That’s only logical, and was a response to USA calling on allies to sanction (extreme tariffs) China too. Aligning with USA means you/we started it, not China.

Yes China has behaved like a bully too, but this case is not one of them.

If you make encryption insecure, you also open up for industrial espionage.
There is no middle way, we either have the option for secure communication or we don’t.

STFU Starmer! If you don’t understand it, just accept it, have some empathy, and show respect for your fellow human beings.

Maybe Putin is realising that the Russian economy will break before Ukraine?

Britain’s economy will be among the hardest hit by the global trade war

??

AFAIK there is no global trade war, it’s only USA that is waging a trade war against everybody else.
Also it seems most countries are very keen on doing the OPPOSITE of a global trade war, and increase trade to compensate for the AMERICAN trade war.

However the US trade war will have global effects, and UK is probably vulnerable to those effects like Canada and Mexico, and other countries that stand alone and have huge trade share with USA.

But the trade war is NOT global. And everybody is trying to prevent that from happening.

Aid to Ukraine fell by 16.7 per cent year-on-year to $15.5bn,

This is decidedly false:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-aid-to-ukraine/

USA alone helped Ukraine with 114 billion USD over 3 years. So there is no way Ukraine only received 15.5 billion in 2024.

The line should possibly read: HUMANITARIAN Aid to Ukraine fell by 16.7 per cent year-on-year to $15.5bn,
Which is completely different.

The article is so poorly written it’s basically misinformation.

Instead of aid to developing countries, the headline says international aid.
Aid to Ukraine is international aid, but Ukraine is not a developing country.

Also it’s only measured on one organisation, so there os no way to judge whether aid through other channels have compensated.
Basically it’s a trash headline, which I detected, so I lost interest in reading the article, except now I read it write this reply.

The article even states that the drop is probably due to an increase in aid to Ukraine. So the headline is decidedly misleading.

developing countries.

So the headline is misleading.

As long as they are headquartered in USA, the company is under American law, and USA can simply forbid them to expand to China.

Does helping Ukraine not count as international aid?

IDK 51st State of Canada maybe?

China had privileges for many years because it’s a developing country. I think they technically still are, because of poverty in many provinces. But China needs to acknowledge they have come so far now, that we can’t grant them those privileges anymore.

USA could have made that case together with trade partners. But instead USA chose to screw over everybody.

I agree we can’t suddenly replace USA with China, that wouldn’t make any sense.
But if we can repair some of the damage Trump is doing with better agreements with China, I think everybody is ready to do that as things are now.

There is no info on the CATL system in the article, beyond the claim that it charges 520 km in 5 minutes.
With the BYD news, we were told about developments in batteries, and that the charge was 1 freaking Mega Watt at 1000 Volt!!
Using 2 charging sockets. Also BYD demonstrated their system actually works.

We will have to see if more info arrives on the CATL system. But unless they can demonstrate it, they haven’t surpassed BYD yet.

Thanks.

China spent $50 billion on researching chip production last year, about half the global investment!! Because of policies instated by Trump in his first term!
Canada has cancelled their F35 program, and is looking for non US supplier of their fighter jets.
EU has decided to become independent of USA on military equipment, making their own equipment instead of buying from USA.
Tesla sales have dropped almost 50% in Europe, and Tesla is very unlikely to ever come back to their leading position in Europe again.

George Bush wasn’t nearly as bad as Trump, but USA misled the world under him regarding Iraq, and started a baseless war that many allies were drawn into. Obama was VERY popular in Europe, but despite that relations weren’t completely restored in 2 terms with Obama. Bush broke trust with comments like if you aren’t with us you’re against us.

Trump was much worse already the first term, despite not starting any wars. Talk of abandoning NATO, not respecting article 5, pandering to Russia, withdrawing from the Paris agreement. And in general undermining democracy and cooperation with allies. USA lost leadership under Trump, and it didn’t recover with biden.

So don’t think for a second that the harm from Trump’s first term was repaired by Biden. Although we did return more to business as usual with Biden.

Now Trump has within only 3 months managed to piss off everybody. China is opposing USA directly, which they never did before, and EU has declared a goal of independence from USA, which was talked about the first time Trump was president, but now was decided very quickly because Trump cut off aid to Ukraine. Europe simply can’t rely on USA anymore, and the decision to work towards independence is final. The ol PAX Americana can never be restored, and the soft power USA had because USA was supported by many allies can never be restored either.

As another lemmy poster wrote, imagine you are in a loving relationship with a partner you trust. But suddenly one morning when you get up, your partner punches you hard in the face without reason. That relationship can never go back to what it was.

USA can absolutely make friends and trade with everybody like before. But the trust and soft power USA had built after WW2 for 50 years was already shaken under George W. Bush, mostly restored by Obama, but then shaken badly with Trump first term, and now destroyed by Trump 2nd term.

Mind you this is not just Trump, Trump won the popular vote, and is representing USA by democratic election. So it’s the American people and the Republican party that has shown that USA isn’t to be trusted as we used to trust it.

To rebuild that trust, a fundamental change is needed in USA. A shift in ideology in the population and probably also a much improved democracy, that doesn’t surrender so much power based on the election of 1 person.

Trump has made history already, but unfortunately it is not the good kind.

My wife had a Huawei phone for 10 years, because she doesn’t like the new phones. It took amazing pictures despite it was only a mid range phone. But not so good in low light compared to new phones.
Huawei made insanely high end good looking designs even with their mid range phones, nothing on the market today looks as good as that one did.

But it ended up being too slow, and the software was too old, so there were things that simply stopped working.

I hope he gets ousted before he can do irreparable harm…

Too late for that.