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April 25, 2016

China could electrify global rechargeable car market
Beijing (AFP) April 24, 2016
Electric cars have their highest-profile prophet in US-based entrepreneur Elon Musk and their widest adoption in Norway, but China's vast auto market will decide their worldwide future, experts say. Top global brands will be fighting it out to electrify buyers at China's premier car show opening Monday in Beijing. The country is already the world's largest auto market and took the number one spot for electric models last year, with some 247,000 "zero emission" cars sold - quadruple the number i ... read more

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'Odd couple' monolayer semiconductors align to advance optoelectronics

Computers in your clothes? A milestone for wearable electronics

Swiss watch exports plunge on Hong Kong, US slowdown

Indian space scientists produce world's lightest synthetic material

Electrons slide through the hourglass on surface of bizarre material

Mysterious 'four-dimensional' iron oxide explained

Carmakers focus on China as scorching market slows

New contracts surface for struggling Transocean

Google empire built on search looks to other bets

Activists dump coal ahead of climate deal signing

VW to offer buyback, payout to owners of polluting cars

UA team revs up connected-vehicle technology

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Using methane rather than flaring it

Global leaders agree to set price on carbon pollution

Generation of tailored magnetic materials

Creation of Jupiter interior, a step towards room temp superconductivity

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