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China’s first hydrogen-powered locomotive converted from an internal combustion engine rolled off the production line in Datong City, Shanxi Province on Thursday. China Railway Rolling Stock Corp. (CRRC), the country’s largest railway vehicle and equipment manufacturer, said the locomotive, Ningdong, is the world’s most powerful hydrogen-powered locomotive by far. CRRC …

Tax credits led to a surge in U.S. electric vehicle sales in the first quarter of 2023, making the United States the world’s second-largest EV market after China, Counterpoint Technology Market Research said in new research. U.S. passenger electric vehicle (EV) sales jumped by over 79% year-on-year in Q1 2023, …

China’s first smart floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel was delivered in Nantong, East China’s Jiangsu Province on Friday, marking a milestone in the digital transformation and intelligent development of the energy sector in China, according to the vessel’s operator CNOOC Energy Technology & Services Ltd. The FPSO vessel …

India will soon overtake China as the largest driver of global oil demand, International Energy Agency (IEA) chief Fatih Birol said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. Birol made this statement during a G20 event in New Delhi, emphasizing the “rapid growth of electrification in cars and buses in China as …

The first day of the 10th Arab-China Business Conference in Saudi Arabia ended with the signing of 30 investment agreements worth 37.5 billion Saudi riyals ($9.9 billion). The parties signed agreements in the field of technology, renewable energy, agriculture, real estate, minerals, logistics, tourism and healthcare, the state-run Saudi Press …

The nuclear arsenals of several countries, especially China, grew last year and other atomic powers continued to modernise theirs as geopolitical tensions rise, researchers said on Monday (Jun 12). “We are approaching, or maybe have already reached, the end of a long period of the number of nuclear weapons worldwide …

China is racing toward decarbonization at a rate that few could have predicted. The nation is crushing its competition in terms of clean energy spending, and Bloomberg recently described that a frenzied air of enthusiasm about solar power and electric vehicles in China that “suggests China is nearing an inflection …

Iran exported non-oil commodities valued at $2.418 billion to China during the first two months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-May 21), the spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) announced. Mohammad Rezvani-Far said that China was the top export destination of Iranian non-oil goods …

China’s drive to reduce its dependence on imported oil has led to the construction of a huge concrete facility near Zhuhai, resembling the size of Monaco, which serves as the centerpiece of its deepwater drilling efforts. The facility, operated by a unit of China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), is …

China is expected to be the world’s largest importer of clean hydrogen, requiring 13 million tonnes of imported hydrogen a year by 2030 due to the huge amount of clean energy required to decarbonise its different sectors, according to a report released by Deloitte on Thursday. Europe’s demand will amount …