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69 million people people live in the United Kingdom. And now >Electrek reports:
Battery-electric cars took 32% of the UK's new car market in October, while petrol cars fell to just 37.2%, according to new data from the SMMT. That's the closest the two have been. At the current pace, electric cars will outsell petrol in the UK within a year. And it could happen as soon as this December.
The UK registered 152,730 new cars in October, up 5.4% year-over-year and the 11th straight month of growth for the overall market. All of that growth came from plug-ins. Battery-electric vehicle registrations jumped 32.7% to 48,858 units, and plug-in hybrids rose 30.1% to 22,898. Meanwhile, petrol fell 11.6% to 56,876 units, diesel dropped 15.9%, and even conventional hybrids were down 5%...
The brands growing fastest in the UK are mostly Chinese. BYD registered 6,065 cars in October, up 73%. Jaecoo more than doubled to 6,089 units, Chery nearly tripled to 3,707, and Leapmotor doubled to 1,773. MG was up 85%.
Looking at trend lines, EV car sales surpass petrol sales "around August 2027 at roughly 33% each," the article points out. "But that's the slow scenario, because it ignores December."
UK battery-electric vehicle share spikes every December as automakers push volume to get closer to their zero-emission vehicle mandate targets... Petrol's days as the UK's default car are numbered. The only question is whether the milestone comes in December or sometime in 2027.
Battery-electric cars took 32% of the UK's new car market in October, while petrol cars fell to just 37.2%, according to new data from the SMMT. That's the closest the two have been. At the current pace, electric cars will outsell petrol in the UK within a year. And it could happen as soon as this December.
The UK registered 152,730 new cars in October, up 5.4% year-over-year and the 11th straight month of growth for the overall market. All of that growth came from plug-ins. Battery-electric vehicle registrations jumped 32.7% to 48,858 units, and plug-in hybrids rose 30.1% to 22,898. Meanwhile, petrol fell 11.6% to 56,876 units, diesel dropped 15.9%, and even conventional hybrids were down 5%...
The brands growing fastest in the UK are mostly Chinese. BYD registered 6,065 cars in October, up 73%. Jaecoo more than doubled to 6,089 units, Chery nearly tripled to 3,707, and Leapmotor doubled to 1,773. MG was up 85%.
Looking at trend lines, EV car sales surpass petrol sales "around August 2027 at roughly 33% each," the article points out. "But that's the slow scenario, because it ignores December."
UK battery-electric vehicle share spikes every December as automakers push volume to get closer to their zero-emission vehicle mandate targets... Petrol's days as the UK's default car are numbered. The only question is whether the milestone comes in December or sometime in 2027.
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Minor party leader Qiulae Wong says ‘populism doesn’t deliver results’ and that her vision for a low emissions future will drive its talks with major parties
A history-making centrist party that could influence New Zealand’s political direction has taken aim at populism as lawmakers arrived at parliament on Monday.
A nail-biting election failed to hand either the incumbent rightwing coalition or opposition left bloc a strong winning hand on Saturday. New Zealanders will now need to wait until 27 November for the final result, which includes the addition of about 400,000 “special votes” – those cast overseas or outside the voter’s electorate.
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Pope Leo XIV has delivered a stinging critique of Argentine president Javier Milei’s harsh austerity measures, insisting growth must benefit all in a speech met with rapturous applause in Buenos Aires.
“The economy must be at the service of the people, rather than people being at the service of the economy,” he said on Sunday, shortly after landing in Argentina on the second leg of a Latin America tour.
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Huawei claims it’s built a desktop PC that uses only parts made in CHina. The company launched the Qingyun HM650 last week and said it uses Huawei’s own Kirin X90 processor, a ten-core 20-thread machine with a clock speed of 2.3 GHz. The machine runs a newly developed enterprise version of HarmonyOS, the OS Huawei developed to end its dependence on Android and which it intends to run on most of the devices it makes. A single Chinese government agency has reportedly signed up for 600 of the machines. That’s not an indication this machine is a curiosity, because Beijing has ordered all government entities to shift from Wintel boxes to local alternatives. While Huawei has reportedly claimed local companies manufactured 100 percent of the components in the machine, it is unclear if all those components use Chinese designs. The Register mentions that uncertainty as many non-Chinese companies continue to operate factories in China. Even if Huawei is using some parts that aren’t entirely Chinese, the debut of the Qingyun HM650 is bad news for Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm, as all are suffering as the PC market shrinks due to the rising cost of memory. China’s government is an enormous buyer, and losing the chance to bid for its business is unlikely to be helpful. Japan announces emergency response package after wave of cyberattacks Japan’s government last Friday announced emergency funding to help local organizations strengthen the nation's cyber-defences. The ¥10 billion ($63 million) package follows a wave of cyberattacks that have disrupted railways, retailers, KFC’s logistics provider, and cloud computing operators. The emergency package aims to help Japanese government agencies to use AI to nail infosec basics, and to build tools that let the National Cybersecurity Office aggregate information about cyberattacks. Some funds will also go towards supporting victims. Lenovo’s APAC boss shifts to lead Motorola Lenovo is looking for a new leader of its Asia-Pacific operations after shifting the boss, Amar Babu, to a role as mobile business group general manager and global president at Motorola. Amar led Lenovo in the region for over five years and the company credited him with turning it into “a more balanced and diversified business and a key growth engine.” “Across the portfolio, AP maintained its #1 PC position, while our mobile business achieved notable growth, with Motorola reaching nearly 9 percent market share in India and the #2 smartphone OEM in Japan,” according to a company announcement. “Our infrastructure business achieved profitable growth and nearly double-digit market share, while Solutions & Services continued to strengthen its best-of-breed industry position and significantly increased its advanced services business mix to over 50 percent.” Lenovo has not named a new leader for its APAC outpost. Vietnam hails homegrown USB storage chip Vietnam’s government last week announced the nation’s first domestically-designed security chip - a 28-nanometer device that apparently integrates encryption algorithms in silicon. The chip is already in use on secure USB storage devices that Vietnam’s government employs to store info for government and defense agencies, plus the Communist Party. The nation hopes to use the chips to secure storage of the national digital signature certification system, and critical infrastructure systems in electricity, water, oil and gas, and telecommunications. Hanoi says the chip needs more testing before the government will trust it to protect state secrets, but hailed the chip as an important step towards development of sovereign security capabilities. Apple’s biggest ever education deal Apple last week quietly announced it has won its biggest-ever sale of Macs into the education market in the Philippines. Speaking on the company’s Q4 earnings call, CEO John Ternus said Apple sold 172,000 MacBook Neos to the Department of Education in the Philippines, which will deploy them to teachers and staff. ®
CNN: Nvidia announced Sunday it is launching an independent investigation into its chief executive and founder, Jensen Huang, over concerns he was the "target of a foreign intelligence effort." The statement, published on the company's website, comes after US officials have expressed concern over Huang's relationship with Alice Huang, an executive of Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company.
House Committee on Foreign Affairs: "Recent reports raise significant national security concerns regarding the PRC's access to sensitive U.S. technology and information," Chairmen Mast, Moolenaar, and Crawford wrote. "The issue of PRC infiltration and access to cutting-edge U.S. technology is core to the investigative work of our three committees this Congress. It is vital that Congress determines the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk."
House Committee on Foreign Affairs: "Recent reports raise significant national security concerns regarding the PRC's access to sensitive U.S. technology and information," Chairmen Mast, Moolenaar, and Crawford wrote. "The issue of PRC infiltration and access to cutting-edge U.S. technology is core to the investigative work of our three committees this Congress. It is vital that Congress determines the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk."
