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Musk remaking the world like Ford – but far more dangerously

Elon Musk, briefly the world’s first trillionaire – but now a mere billionaire again – is a man of exceptions. He’s built not one, but two of the world’s most pioneering technology companies (Tesla and SpaceX). He was talking about settling humans on Mars with a straight face

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BYD battery breakthrough crashes Indonesia’s nickel cartel dream

A quiet but seismic shift is playing out across China’s globally dominant electric-vehicle supply chain, one with major implications for Indonesia’s EV-reliant nickel industry. BYD’s new Datang SUV recently racked up 150,000 pre-orders in a 53-day in China, marking a pre-order

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