Tracking the emerging technological, commercial, political and social revolution that is greening China’s red-hot economy.
Posted in automotive, policy on Aug 29th, 2008
Earlier this spring this blog identified an upstart Chinese auto company called BYD Auto that is, despite is short operating history in the auto industry, introducing one of the most innovative automobile makes in the industry—a fully commercial electric car—ahead the likes of established auto giants like General Motors (and its flagship electric car make—the [...]
Posted in capital and finance, coal, energy efficiency, green hops, nuclear, policy on Aug 7th, 2008
More on the Green Olympics. Just one more day to the opening ceremonies! In our last post, we examined some of the stopgap measures that Beijing embarked on to deliver on its Green Olympics promises. Louis Schwartz, one of my favorite commentators on China’s clean tech scene, provides some juicy details of the kinds of [...]
Posted in automotive, policy, transportation on Jul 18th, 2008
Organizers of the Beijing Olympics are boasting of all the renewable energy and water conservation technologies that are incorporated into the Olympic infrastructure, as well as the recent opening of the 680 hectre “green lung” in the form of the Olympic Forest Park.
But this wasn’t what anyone had in mind when Beijing pitched the [...]
