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BYD, a Chinese carmaker once dismissed by Tesla’s CEO, claims to have outpaced western rivals with charging tech that’s as fast as filling petrol engines

Tesla’s boss, Elon Musk, once thought the idea that China’s BYD could compete with his company was laughable. In 2011, he smugly dismissed the Chinese carmaker as unimpressive, its products unattractive and its technology “not very strong”. He’s not laughing now – and not just because Tesla’s stock has plummeted amid a boycott by motorists protesting against his embrace of far-right politics. More pressingly, Mr Musk, like other western carmakers, has been outpaced by BYD.

Last week, the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer unveiled new charging technology that, it says, is capable of delivering 400km (249 miles) of driving range in just five minutes – as quick as filling up a petrol car. The system, released next month, will be fitted in two EVs, priced from 270,000 yuan (£29,000) – comparable to Tesla’s most affordable model in China. Yet BYD claims to quadruple Tesla’s kilometres-per-minute charging rate. Technological supremacy at a competitive price may help to explain why BYD now sells seven times as many cars in China as Tesla.

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Exclusive: Australia’s top green organisations suspend anti-nuclear power ads to fund campaign against Labor’s move to protect salmon industry

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Australia’s leading environment organisations have abruptly suspended advertising campaigns attacking the Coalition’s plan to introduce nuclear power and are instead funding ads accusing Anthony Albanese of signing “the death warrant” of an endangered species.

The shift from criticising the Coalition to Labor on the cusp of an election campaign was agreed by the bosses of green groups – including the Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace, the WWF Australia and the Climate Council – at what campaigners described as an emergency meeting on Saturday.

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$1.8 billion in rebates would slash household bills by an average of 7.5 per cent and bring down inflation by half a per cent, according to Treasury estimates.

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Australia’s hydrogen strategy has been a mix of ambition, overreach, and slow reality checks.

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Transporation fuel emissions in California nudged down just over 1% year-on-year (YoY) in 2024, even as diesel consumption increased in December, state data published Friday showed.

Australia’s world heritage-listed reefs – Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east – are being hit by simultaneous coral bleaching, with teams of scientists on both coasts monitoring and tracking the event across thousands of kilometres of marine habitat. On Western Australia’s Ningaloo reef, waters have accumulated the highest amount of heat stress on record during an extended marine heatwave that has hit coral reefs all the way along the state’s vast coastline

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Scientists say widespread damage to both world heritage-listed reefs is ‘heartbreaking’ as WA reef accumulates highest amount of heat stress on record

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Australia’s two world heritage-listed reefs – Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east – have been hit simultaneously by coral bleaching that reef experts have called “heartbreaking” and “a profoundly distressing moment”.

Teams of scientists on both coasts have been monitoring and tracking the heat stress and bleaching extending across thousands of kilometres of marine habitat, which is likely to have been driven by global heating.

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Cities lose thousands of mature trees a year. On Overbury Drive, neighbours were determined to protect a solitary giant dying red gum – stuck right in the middle of their road

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It’s a striking image; in a suburban landscape where nature has been largely pushed aside to make way for roads, houses and driveways, the thick craggy trunk of a towering river red gum tree stands defiantly in place, forcing the bitumen to squeeze and buckle around it. Bang in the middle of the street.

Barely a day goes by without the residents of Overbury Drive noticing a carload of tourists or curious locals pulling up in their quiet cul-de-sac, cameras at the ready.

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The European Commission denied reports that its 2040 target proposal could be delayed into the second quarter, rectifying statements from its vice-president Teresa Ribera who suggested in an interview that the initiative would be postponed.

On social media a self-proclaimed earthquake predictor says he can forecast big shakes, but experts say it's pure luck.

Investors built their V26 California Carbon Allowance (CCA) net length while cutting V25s, and producers pulled back their RGGI Allowance (RGA) exposure, according to latest weekly data released Friday by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Three of the largest political groups in the European Parliament have pledged to uphold the integrity of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) by limiting legislative changes to the scope proposed by the European Commission last month.

California invested $100 mln of cap-and-trade revenues to identify and track methane emissions data, project proponents announced Friday.

Brazil’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) and Ministry of Development and Family Farming (MDA), as well as its national development bank (BNDES), on Friday launched three public calls for proposals to restore a critical deforestation area.

Ghana has received 70 projects for review in pursuit of eventual authorisation or endorsement, including 45 applications for Article 6 projects with sovereign nations, according to a report published Friday by the country’s Carbon Markets Office (CMO).

Increasing run-ins between anglers and the ocean’s apex predators reflects a growing unease among beachgoers. But is widespread fear justified?

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Moreton Bay charter boat deckhand Bryce Daly is starting to feel unsafe swimming the waters he’s grown up fishing.

“You’ve always got a shark in the back of your mind,” the 32-year-old Jimboomba man says.

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A full repeal of clean energy tax credits by Congress combined with a reversal of regulations governing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions would increase energy prices for both households across the US and manufacturers, according to a new analysis.

It’s time for Canada’s carbon removal (CDR) industry to take its turn in the limelight, according to the policy director of one of the country's leading policy advocacy groups.

The California-Quebec jointed WCI auction in May will offer a lower volume of allowances in the second quarterly sale of 2025 than it did in the first, according to a Friday notice from California regulator ARB.

The US CO2 removal (CDR) industry is facing challenges as political support decreases, investors grow cautious, and federal funding becomes uncertain, according to a recent article by an ex-DOE employee.