Photo Credit: iStock Canada’s recent trade agreement with China has major implications for the American EV market, according to The Independent. Canada’s government announced lowered tariffs on electric vehicles being produced in China. In exchange, China has pledged to lower tariffs on Canadian canola, a major export, and other agricultural products starting March 1. This…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if America’s northern neighbor went ahead with its China trade deal, intensifying a feud with Prime Minister Mark Carney, a rising voice in the West’s pushback to Trump new world order. Trump said in a social…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a searing speech on Tuesday in Davos, Switzerland, about “the rupture in the world order” and Canada’s role in whatever comes next. A few days earlier, he signaled Canada’s path with the announcement of a trade agreement with China, which included reducing Canada’s tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles from…
A Tesla owner took to Reddit to vent frustration after their vehicle’s cameras captured a woman stealing a key charging accessory not long after the car was plugged in. While the incident ended without permanent loss, it highlights a growing concern around electric vehicles and charging station vandalism or theft. Photo Credit: Reddit Photo Credit:…
Breaking with the United States, Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday. Carney made the announcement after two days of meetings with Chinese leaders. He said there would be an initial annual cap of 49,000…
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is departing for China (13 January) for the first time since 2017, after years of strained diplomatic relations between the two countries that began in the late 2010s with disputes over trade, national security and human rights significantly weakened their ties. Officials from both sides have described this visit as an…
Air travellers making the descent into Islamabad, Nairobi or São Paulo may be struck by the sight of solar panels scattered liberally over the rooftops. Regular visitors to Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital city, will probably have detected a marked improvement in air quality and traffic noise of late, owing to the shift from combustion engines towards…
China’s robotics industry may need at least five years before humanoid models reach a similar level of acceptance to electric vehicles, according to private equity firm Hermitage Capital, the latest voice warning of a potential bubble in the sector. The firm, which manages US$1.5 billion in assets, was an early investor in Chinese graphics processing…
Those lofty ideas you hear about like flying autonomous taxis, drone food delivery, and robot battery swaps aren’t just theoretical. China is jumping headfirst into these pie-in-the-sky concepts. As New York Times correspondent Keith Bradsher put it, “China has now raced far beyond the flirtation stage.” In Hefei, Bradsher explored the concept of autonomous flying…
HEFEI, China (AP) — Volkswagen is making a major bet in China, the largest and one of the most cutthroat auto markets in the world. The question is whether it will work. The German carmaker, which once dominated the market with a more than 50% share, has invested 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion) in a…