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This map has real time stats on battery swap. Unfortunately it's only available in Chinese. NIO has done 35 million battery swap to date and you can see where the swap stations are located. Not quite as accessible as your gas stations but not far off especially in the large cities.
The 1044km claim is from a livestream where the CEO of the company drove the car from Shanghai to Xiamen until there's 3% left in the battery. All this amid a cold wave too.
> The temperature during the test was between -2 °C and 12 °C (28 – 54 °F). The coldest time was at the beginning of the test, as it was early morning in Shanghai. The average cabin temperature was 20 °C (68 °F). The carload was about 190 kg (two adults, lifestream equipment, and other items).
Of course smaller countries with less security guarantees want to join NATO! It's the most powerful military pact and once you are in you can go around punching up against much larger countries! Who wouldn't want to?
Even Russia wanted to join NATO, an idea floated after WWII when the Russians fought against the Nazis alongside the allied forces. Of course that was dismissed as a pipe-dream because the existence of NATO was to contain Russia to the east.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93NATO_relations#...
The crucial difference, in case is not clear, is that a missile placed in Ukraine would hit Moscow, the capital of Russia, in minutes. This is much more threatening to core Russia interests and Putin would not live with it.
Before rushing to putting all the blame on Russia just because "Putin-bad": I would strongly encourage people who are interested to know more to watch the following talks, from ages ago, given at reputable US universities because let's be honest, none of us is geopolitical historian two weeks ago on this topic so why don't we all do a bit more research.
[1] A good overview of the history, 7 years ago from a talk @ U Chicago. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4)
[2] Another one from a talk @ Yale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng75e5gQ
The western politicians and the public acting surprised after ignoring all the warning signs all these years is truly amazing to watch.
It stands though that it's orders of magnitudes less than USD.
We will never find out such data for USD anyway, where do you verify for yourself that the claimed 2.7T is accurate?
Please refrain from making strenuous, baseless connections to arbitrary articles for your own privacy vendetta. It helps nobody.
Out of the 150 cities, 39 or 26% of them are in China making the candidate pool quite imbalanced to start with?
Going by the same data, we could also claim that:
"The Safest Cities in the World"
Qingdao China 7.42
Wuxi China 7.84
Hefei China 11.03
Nagoya Japan 11.21
Nanjing China 13.31
Ningbo China 14.75
Ji'nan China 15.79
Suzhou China 16.63
Dalian China 17.53
Fukuoka Japan 18.59
Xiamen China 19.09
The irony is that we were just about to witness US govt forcing said "private entities" to ban specific applications.
I think it would be super interesting to look at CO2 emission per capita broken down by states (i.e. perhaps states along the coasts would show a very different picture than less populated states).
309 people per mi2 (France) vs 421 for the NY state.
While we lament how much of this is due to offshoring industries to China, it's also a good sign that carbon-importing countries seem to have been trending down over the past 10 years while carbon-exporting country (China) is leveling off in its emission. My naive read would be that we learned to make more efficient use of carbon while off-shoring is happening.
All countries need to do much more but SOME really need to wake up and do their part!
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
Counter the argument for what it is if you wish but going after OP's account history is not called for.
Comment like this lumps tiktok, a privately owned company with the Chinese government with no evidence. It's never about national security but really about US politicians seeing a social network with real reach in the US that for the first time does NOT need to pay to lobby in the US, nor to be responsive to congressional inquiry (as they have been able to do recently with US tech platforms, accusing platforms of suppressing conservative/liberal views, again without evidence).
If you know anything about bytedance's founder you would know that he's been an outspoken globalist, criticizing the government's approach to free flow of information on multiple accounts. Uninformed comments like this is truly tragic for many globalist people in China who grew up hoping for a global stage with open, fair competition and who often do not agree with the government's perspective.
This article further shows the point I was trying to make: not saying tiktok is in the right here but the media focus on tiktok for the entire article and then tag on the full list of 32 apps towards the end of the article in bullet points.
This does not seem specific to tiktok at all. Would you jump in on discussions on LinkedIn and claim "Not surprised, given how sketchy LinkedIn is?"