Plastic recycling is notoriously inefficient, but that provides lots of room for improvement.

Technology company revolutionizes recycling with first-of-its-kind facility in China — here’s how it works

DataBeyond Technology recently opened what it says is the world’s first fully automated recycling facility in northern China.  The Tianjin Baoyuan Materials Recovery Facility boasts the ability to sort specific brand bottles, high-quality clear bottles, blue and clear bottles, green bottles, meal trays, metals, glass, and miscellaneous plastics using a range of cameras and sensors….

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Producing 4680D batteries en masse is no walk in the park.

This revolutionary technology will keep Tesla ahead in the EV market — here’s why it’s key to the company’s plans

The space race. Polio vaccines. Microcomputing. Every era has a great technological goal, with outside competition pushing each innovation to new heights. Electric vehicle makers might already be writing this century’s chapter as they race to develop EVs that can receive more juice, charge in less time, and travel farther distances than ever. Tesla is…

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