July 19, 2017 |
brian wang |
A new 3D printer creates metal parts at commercial production speeds. Their SPEE3D printer has the potential to turn 3D metal printing, which currently is just making prototypes of parts, into a tool for manufacturing actual parts for use. It …
June 5, 2017 |
brian wang |
Strategy Analytics has predicted the potential economic impact of the Passenger Economy once fully autonomous pilotless vehicles begin to proliferate globally in 2035 and by 2050, the base year of our scenarios, account for nearly 50 percent of all vehicles …
May 21, 2017 |
brian wang |
UBS analysts tore down the Chevy Bolt, the world’s first mass-market electric vehicle (EV) with a range well above 200 miles. They gained key insights to understanding the content and profitability of EVs, especially Tesla’s upcoming Model 3. Their findings …
May 15, 2017 |
brian wang |
1. Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by Google’s parent Alphabet and Lyft are teaming up to road test autonomous cars in a potential challenge to Uber Technologies. In its statement, Lyft said Waymo holds ‘‘today’s best self-driving technology.’’ The …
April 3, 2017 |
brian wang |
China’s Bohai Shipyard has built a new large-scale plant to mass produce nuclear submarines. Western production lines for the most part can only build one submarine at a time, and only the US is capable of building two submarines simultaneously, …
March 22, 2017 |
brian wang |
The Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and CoalSwarm have released their third annual survey of the global coal plant pipeline, Boom and Bust 2017: Tracking The Global Coal Plant Pipeline. The report’s findings include a 62 percent drop in new coal plant …
March 1, 2017 |
brian wang |
China has entered a “new normal” stage, where the returns to capital are continuing to decrease and low-skilled labor intensive industries are growing at a much slower speed. Whether the country can enjoy sustainable growth critically depends on the growth …
