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2 months ago
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on: India Is Electrifying Faster Than China Using Cheap Green Tech
None yet. The EU doesn't have much fiscal capacity. But there are signs that the EU is being forced to get creative and speed things up. The Mercosur deal is a good sign (despite some pending issues).
akshatrathi
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2 months ago
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on: India Is Electrifying Faster Than China Using Cheap Green Tech
I wrote this article. Happy to answer any questions.
akshatrathi
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5 years ago
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on: Primary energy vs final energy: why replacing fossil fuels may not be so hard
Totally right that what matters is greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Tackling them, however, is going to take all our muscles. Many climate deniers have used the 80% of primary energy from fossil fuel figure as a way to claim it's too hard to do anything about the problem or to say there's been little progress. That's misleading and I wrote the article to explain to correct that narrative.
akshatrathi
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5 years ago
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on: Primary energy vs final energy: why replacing fossil fuels may not be so hard
I wrote the story. The efficiency here isn't breaking the first law of thermodynamics. It's just the industry's way of measuring how much work gets done for a certain amount of input. If the work is heating or cooling, then shifting heat from in one direction or another can be done using heat pumps, which move three units of thermal energy for every unit of electrical energy consumed. Might that explain the conundrum?
akshatrathi
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6 years ago
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on: Europe is beating the US in the battery race–with China’s help
Maybe. The chances are entirely dependent on Tesla's success. Europe has many more carmakers making the bet. I'd wager Europe has better odds.
akshatrathi
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6 years ago
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on: Europe is beating the US in the battery race–with China’s help
I wrote the story, and I'm happy to answer any questions.
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
It also happens to be my favorite thing about writing Qz articles. :)
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
Good point. Didn't realize that was possible now. But makes sense given how long some electric cars have been now. Next time I write about LSEVs, I'll make a note to mention second-hand electric cars.
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
They will be in the US, because there's supposed to be NHTSA-approved version. Given regulations in Europe, I assume that would be the case too.
That means this version has some more safety features than the the base model in China, which could explain why it costs more than 3x outside China.
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
I don't for certain. In my trip to China, I couldn't meet makers of LSEVs. What I do know is that there are no subsidies in that market, which means carmakers won't survive if they don't make a profit. But it's a good question whether they are making that profit at the cost of human lives (no crash protection) or the environment (lead-acid batteries).
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
Got lost in the edit. Doh. Added now. Thanks!
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
Yeah, I'd like to buy them at the price they sell it in China: $2,500.
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
With a 450 kg load capacity, but yes.
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
I didn't say there's no crash protection on the Pickman. It's the $1000 cars sold in China that don't have them. Pretty sure that to qualify in the US and Europe, the Kaiyun car need to a minimum level of safety features.
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Cheap Chinese electric cars are coming to the US and Europe
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: China’s electric cars are government spies – Quartz
I wrote this article, and I'm happy to answer questions.
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Carbon Removal Technologies
I wrote a series on carbon capture technologies:
https://qz.com/re/the-race-to-zero-emissions/What I took away most was that carbon removal is now firmly a part of mitigating climate change. It's part of "Plan A" but also there is so much from the previous "Plan A" that will still need to work on. There are a number of carbon-capture technologies on current emissions that need to be deployed from power plants to cement factories.
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Pivot Bio has raised $70M to sell nitrogen-fixing bacteria
I wrote this article, and I'm happy to field any questions.
akshatrathi
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7 years ago
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on: Bill Gates-led $1B energy fund expands startup portfolio fighting climate change
That's the reason. Thanks for helping me out here.
