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Europe’s heatwave sold a lot of American batteries — and they were not lithium
A San Diego firm shipped its first 100 home batteries to European buyers wanting to store cheap grid power for air conditioning. They run…
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A Dutch court has banned Lidl from selling Birkenstock lookalikes, at €5,000 a day if it does not comply
The supermarket must stop selling copies of five Birkenstock models in the Netherlands, hand over sales data and pay compensation. The…
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Ford’s Dagenham engine output halved in a decade. Its plan is to build military vehicles instead
Output at Ford’s Dagenham plant has fallen from 90,000 engines a year to about half that. The company is bidding, with General Dynamics and…
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Inside the Chinese factory where robots build robots: one humanoid every ten minutes, 10,000 a year
UBTech's new plant in Liuzhou uses its own Cruzr robots to feed the line that assembles its Walker S humanoids. Each finished robot gets a…
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One chemical tank nearly exploded in California — and aircraft window production has still not fully restarted
A tank holding 7,000 gallons of toxic material began heating up at a GKN Aerospace site. Fifty thousand residents were evacuated, and one…
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Two European battery champions went bankrupt. The next attempt is being made a billionth of a metre at a time
Sweden’s Northvolt and Norway’s Morrow both filed for bankruptcy, and Europe fears it has missed another technology shift. A growing number…
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After electric cars, humanoids: two dozen Chinese firms showed factory robots in Beijing, and one promises them for under $30,000
At the World Robot Conference more than twenty Chinese companies demonstrated human-shaped robots built to work in car plants and…
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63% of phones sold in Bangladesh last year were made here: 2.61 crore handsets from 14 factories
Fourteen local factories shipped 2.61 crore phones in 2021, 63 per cent of everything sold, and employ about 25,000 people, the telecom…