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Electric Vehicles

Tesla Shares Jump as Musk Confirms Driverless Robotaxi Testing

Tesla shares reached their highest level in almost a year on Monday, following an announcement from CEO Elon Musk regarding the company's testing of robotax…

United States

Nvidia Buys AI Software Provider Schedmd to Expand Open-Source AI Push

Nvidia announced on Monday the acquisition of SchedMD, a software company specializing in artificial intelligence workload management. This move reinforces the …

United States

US Homebuilder Sentiment Inches up to Eight-Month High December

U.S. builder confidence in the single-family housing market rose modestly in December 2025, reaching an eight-month high, according to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Hous…

Gas Pipeline

Uniper to Launch Sale of 20% Stake in Opal Gas Pipeline

Uniper has initiated the process to divest its 20% stake in the regulated OPAL gas pipeline, in line with the European Commission's state aid approval decis…

Metal

Korea Zinc to Build $7.4 Billion US Minerals Refinery With Trump’s Support

Korea Zinc announced on Monday a plan to invest in a major critical minerals refining facility in Tennessee, United States, with a total project value of approx…

CCS

Brazil’s BNDES Approves $71 MM for Carbon Storage Project

Brazil's state development bank BNDES has approved funding for corn ethanol producer FS to construct the nation's inaugural carbon capture and storage f…

China

China at 2025 Having Harvested a Record Crop of Grains

China's National Bureau of Statistics reported on Friday that the country's grain output for 2025 reached a record 714.88 million tonnes, marking a 1.2%…

Electric Vehicles

Inovance Automotive, Innoscience Debut GaN-Based 6.6 KW OBC System on Changan EVs

Inovance Automotive and Innoscience announced on December 8, 2025, that their jointly developed 6.6 kW on-board charger, utilizing Innoscience's 650-volt ga…

United States

Chlorum Solutions Acquires Iowa Chlor-Alkali Facility From Cargill

Chlorum Solutions USA LLC, headquartered in Chicago, announced on December 13, 2025, the signing of a definitive agreement to purchase Eddyville Chlor-Alkali, L…

United States

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.2 Improvements

OpenAI introduced its advanced AI model, GPT-5.2, on December 11, 2025, offering improvements in professional tasks, coding performance, and handling of extende…

United States

Azul Wins Court Nod for Debt Restructuring, American and United to Invest

A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved the debt restructuring plan for Brazilian airline Azul on December 12, 2025, enabling the company to reduce more than $2 billio…

United States

JBS to Close California Beef Plant

JBS, the world's largest meat company, announced on December 12, 2025, the permanent closure of a beef preparation facility located outside Los Angeles. The…

Coal Production

India Approves Coal Exports Amid Healthy Power Station Stocks

India's cabinet approved a policy on December 12, 2025, allowing the export of coal due to surplus stocks at power plants, as announced by Information Minis…

Energy Storage Project

Trina Storage and Lightshift to Deploy Over 1GWh Energy Storage Systems in US

Trina Storage and Lightshift Energy have expanded their partnership to deploy more than 1 GWh of grid-scale battery energy storage systems across the United Sta…

Nuclear Fusion

Japan Signs First Fusion Power PPA

Japanese fusion start-up Helical Fusion has signed the country's first-ever fusion-energy power purchase agreement (PPA) with Aoki Super, a leading supermar…