Europeans

Europe is the world leader in heat pump manufacturing. The only problem is that Europeans don’t use them

by

Not to get grandiose, but Europe has never had so many renewables underwayhad never made so much clean technology and never had talked so much about energy independence. And yet, winter has arrived again and the ritual is always the same: turning on the heating still means burning imported gas. Although if we reach this point it is not for lack of alternatives, because they are there. The problem is much more mundane: in much of the continent, heating with electricity it’s still more expensive than doing it with gas. The energy shock that changed everything. A recent EMBER report has detailed how Europe abruptly lost access to cheap Russian gas and had to replace it with much more expensive liquefied natural gas in a highly volatile global market. The result was an unprecedented price shock: an accumulated extra cost of 930 billion euros during the energy crisis. More on fossils. Far from being a problem caused by the green transition, the document indicates that the impact was concentrated precisely in the sectors most dependent on imported fossil fuels. Energy-intensive industries reduced production and, in many cases, never returned to pre-Ukraine war levels. This reading coincides with that presented by researcher Jan Rosenowwho rejects the idea that dismantling climate policies would make energy cheaper. The problem, he maintains, was not going too fast, but rather having delayed electrification for decades and having kept gas as the pillar of the system. Here the central contradiction emerges. According to EMBERheat pumps are a mature, efficient and strategic technology: they produce between two and three times more heat than a gas boiler for each unit of energy consumed. Even if that electricity came entirely from a gas plant, the net fuel savings would still exist. However, in practice, the technological advantage is diluted in the bill. In most EU countries, electricity costs 2 to 4 times more than gas for the end consumer. The average electricity-gas ratio in the EU is 2.85, and in some member states it exceeds 4. The problem: the pricing structure. As pointed out in the consultancynon-energy costs —taxes, tolls and public policy surcharges— can represent up to three quarters of the final price of electricity, while gas maintains a much lower tax burden. The result is an obvious distortion: the most efficient technology appears expensive and the most polluting technology appears affordable. You save but not. For an average home, this anomaly has a direct effect, since changing systems reduces energy consumption, but it does not always reduce the bill. And when that happens, adoption slows down. Furthermore, the data confirm that this is not a cultural or climatic issue, but rather an economic one. In countries like the Netherlands, where electricity is only slightly more expensive than gas, heat pump sales are soaring. On the other hand, in Germany, Poland or Hungary —where electricity can cost more than three times as much as gas—, adoption is much lower. The lever that remains to be activated. Solutions exist and many are immediately applicable: transferring the costs of electricity policies to public budgets, reducing electricity VAT, taxing fossil gas more coherently or implementing specific rates for heat pumps. From there, technological deployment is no longer a promise, but a reality. In fact, Europe leads the global heat pump industrywith manufacturers such as Bosch, Vaillant, NIBE or Danfoss, and with industrial projects that already operate on a large scale. These are not prototypes or pilots, but rather functioning infrastructure. Real limits and tensions. None of this eliminates obstacles. Europe still need gas to stabilize its electrical grid. The infrastructures are stressed, the flexibility of the system is insufficient and any cold winter can send prices skyrocketing again. Added to this are the physical frictions of the transition. The massive expansion of offshore wind in the North Sea is generating unprecedented conflicts between countries due to the so-called “wake effect”, which reduces the production of neighboring parks. Electrification is not only a matter of political will, but also of technical coordination and supranational planning. The anomaly that Europe has not yet corrected. Europe already has the technology, the industry and the climate goals. What it has not yet corrected is a basic anomaly: fiscally penalizing electricity while de facto subsidizing fossil gas. As long as that distortion persists, heat pumps will continue to advance more slowly than data, engineering, and economic common sense would allow. As the EMBER report concludeselectrifying heating is not a green whim, but a strategy for energy security, industrial competitiveness and price stability. The transition is not about inventing new machines, but about deciding which energy is made cheaper and which is left behind. And today, in Europe, that decision continues to be reflected—very clearly—in the invoice. Image | freepik Xataka | While the US and China dominate different sectors, Europe leads an unexpected leadership: heat pumps

If the question is how much salary you would be willing to give up for keeping teleworking, Europeans are clear: zero

by

Teleworking has been one of the Great changes in the organization of the labor market in Europe, although its objective has changed as normality was restored and companies returned to its offices. It was no longer an obligation imposed by COVID-19, but a benefit that It contributed time flexibility For conciliation and, above all, an effective weapon to attract and retain talent. In this context of “labor benefit”, the question of whether workers would be willing to sacrifice part of their salary to maintain the option of working from home has gained relevance between companies. The European Central Bank (ECB) has asked European employees to what percentage of salary would be willing to give up in exchange for maintaining teleworking. Their answers leave no doubt. Nor for all the money in the world. According to data extracted from the Consumer expectations survey (CES) From the European Central Bank, 70% of European workers are not willing to give up any part of their salary in exchange for Teleworking. On the other hand, 13% of the respondents would accept a reduction that would range between 1% and 5%, while only 8% would consent to a more significant salary reduction between 6% and 10%. This data is especially precious to companies since it allows quantifying the value that employees give to the possibility of teleworking, especially when this flexibility is offered as part of an emotional salary for the worker. Percentage of workers who would accept a salary cut and cutting percentage More and more teleworking … but hybrid. So much The data of Eurostat, like those of the Active Population Survey From the first quarter of 2025, they point out that teleworking levels They are maintainedboth European and nationally, well above the prepazed levels recorded in 2019. That means that there is more and more active population working from home. The greatest change that has occurred is that, while before 2019 the most common option was 100% remote work, now the most imposed modality is hybrid work in which work days and teleworking days are combined. That condition of hybrid day too Condition the salary percentage to which employees are willing to give up to keep teleworking. More teleworking, greater sacrifice. The data of the European Central Bank indicate that the most widespread option is to work two or three days a week from home and the rest from the office. For this formula, European workers would be willing to reduce their salary by an average of 2.6% to maintain that regime. The more teleworking days are offered, the greater the salary proportion than some would be willing to sacrifice. An employee who works his entire work week would accept a reduction of 4.6% of his salary, while those who only telework one day a week would barely contemplate 1.6% of cuts. The return to the office increases its pressure. In Europe, companies are not pressing their employees so much To return to your offices as the US companies are doing. This lower pressure is also reflected in the salary cuts that employees are willing to accept. In it Teleworking Study Study That researchers from Stanford and Chicago University have been doing for more than five years, it is noted that the average salary reduction accepted by remote work in the US is around 7%. This difference suggests that in Europe teleworking is no longer considered An exceptional privilegebut part of the basic working conditions in numerous sectors. The problem of eliminating teleworking. Given these data, some companies could be tempted to eliminate teleworking, or take advantage of the attachment of employees for this day model to reduce salaries. However, that plan that seems attractive in the short term, becomes a bad idea in the medium and long term. Telework has become a tool of the Human Resources Department for attract and retain a qualified personnel increasingly scarce. Just observe the waves of resignations and internal conflicts that have generated return policies to the office of Amazon Or, at a closer level, the Holaluz energy. However, offering some teleworking modality makes vacancies take less to cover themselves Because there are more candidates calling companies that maintain these models, and employees who already work on them have better levels of satisfaction. In Xataka | Australia reveals something that had not been taken into account: teleworking is only productive if you wish, not if they impose it Image | Unspash (Coworking macherzentrum toggenburg)

There are American and Europeans fed up with the lack of “traditional values” of the West. So they are moving to Russia

by

Surprising data were known last May: more and more Americans sought to leave the country to Live in Europe. The problem: that the old continent seemed to be closing its doors with migratory policies stricter. What very few anticipated is a new migratory current: that of Westerners who, seeking to recover the “traditional values” that have been lost … and end in Russia. The attraction for the Russia of War. I told it last week The Financial Times. In full invasion of Ukraine and under an increasingly repressive regime, a group of Westerners has chosen to move to Russia in search of what they perceive as “traditional values” in front of a west who consider decadent. Among the most notorious cases is Derek Huffman’san Arizona welder and father of six children, who emigrated with his wife and children alleging rejection of “LGBT indoctrination”, immigration and insecurity in the United States. To accelerate the obtaining of Russian citizenship, he decided to enroll in the Army and fight in Ukrainedefending Even on YouTube that he did to gain respect and a future in his new country. His extreme case has received criticism and also media attentionbecoming a symbol of a reduced but very publicized phenomenon. The “visa of shared values”. Moscow launched in 2024 A special visa For disenchanted western, which facilitates permanent residence to about 150 people per month, a measure that reminds of Soviet propaganda that opposed a corrupt West to a supposedly moral Russia. Although in numbers they are just A few hundredtheir stories receive great diffusion in YouTube channels with Professional productionseveral of them linked to Russia Today According to researchwhich suggests a state effort to amplify the narrative of Russia as a refuge for the conservatives of the West. Examples and integration networks. There are many more cases in addition to the Huffman, such as The one of the Feenstraa Canadian family with eight children who settled on a farm in Nizhni Nóvgorod and reached almost 200,000 subscribers On YouTube, or Stephen Shoresan American computer scientist turned to orthodoxy who claims to feel freer in Russia against the “culture of cancellation”, although he lives under the threat of Ukrainian drones. At the institutional level, figures such as Maria Butina (former Russian agent deported in the United States) and businessmen such as The German Jakob Pinneker They help these immigrants to integrate, facilitating their installation and extolling the “family order and values.” Contradictions and realities. While the Kremlin exhibits these cases as proof of its appeal, the reality is that tens of thousands of Russians They have fled since 2022 to avoid mobilization, political repression and international isolation. In the country itself, thousands of people fulfill condemns for protesting against war or publicly disagree with the regime. The paradox It is evident: Those who come from the West Echoes of the Cold War. What we see today has clear historical parallels with the Soviet strategy during the Cold War. At that time, the USSR I tried to attract to intellectuals, artists and western militants who felt marginalized or frustrated with the capitalism and politics of their countries. Many communists and supporters They traveled to Moscow convinced That there they would find equality and social justice, some even acquired Soviet citizenship or were used in propaganda campaigns that showed the “exploitative west” against “socialist paradise.” The most emblematic case was that of The deserters North Americans who, after the Korean or Vietnam War, sought refuge in the USSR or allies like Cuba and North Korea, converted in trophies ideological. Strategic background. The flow of Westerners to Russia is minimal in figures, but useful in the propaganda plane. Under the official narrative, it reinforces the idea that Russia is not isolated and that even citizens of the Western enemy seek refuge under their flag for reasons of values ​​and morals. In the geopolitical plane, it points to an attempt to counteract the story of a country in crisis and project the image of cultural strength against a fragmented West. Of course, social also reveals the existence of disenchanted minorities In Europe and the United States that, not finding lace in their societies, becomes something very similar to useful pieces for Moscow’s speech. Image | RakoonDerek Huffman/YouTube In Xataka | More and more Americans want to live outside the US but they have a problem: Europe is closing its doors In Xataka | Digital nomadic visas: the countries hook to attract the best digital talent without paying the cost to keep them

that Europeans forget that they need expensive cars

by

Before many we wanted a Xiaomi Su7. Now we also want the new Xiaomi Yu7: The company sold 200,000 units in three minutes In China and beat The remarkable record of his first model. But attentive, because that overwhelming success can now end up replicating in the rest of the world. It has already happened with its mobiles, and in Xiaomi they seem prepared to replicate the same strategy with which they reaped success in that market. In 2027, expansion.Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, indicated on Wednesday that he hopes to start selling his electric vehicles outside China. For now it is confirmed with its market, where you are getting kneel. In its first year selling Xiaomi electric cars has lost 800 million dollars, but it is that That is excellent news for your future. Traditional manufacturers tremble. Xiaomi’s international expansion is a great news for them, but potentially terrible for European manufacturers. The reason is that Xiaomi electric vehicles compete in benefits with the best of European manufacturers, but do so with a much lower price. We have a clear example in Porsche, who has fallen 30% in sales in the last yearespecially for the irruption of Xiaomi Su7. Of choltoteléfonos to chollocoches. Xiaomi’s strategy is traced to which he already allowed him to destroy competition in the mobile industry. His smartphones, especially at the beginning, were choltoteléphones that They offered high-end specifications at entry-media range prices. The same is expected to occur when exporting their cars, which have high -end cars benefits of European manufacturers, but which cost significantly less. It is a battle that traditional mobile manufacturers – those of Apple, Samsung or LG of the time – have already dealt with and, mostly, lost. The example of Yu7. The latest creation of Xiaomi, the Yu7, follows the trail of its predecessor: autonomy of about 540 km, battery that carries 80% in 12 minutes – the Tesla Model and or the Porsche Macan takes more than 20) and acceleration from 0 to 100 in 3.3 seconds (in the Xiaomi Yu7 Max, the most powerful) and power of up to 681 hp (630 hp in the macan, 514 CV in Model Y). Volkswagen already knows what can happen. Volkswagen had a well -off position in China, leading the distance sales of its rivals. However, in recent months these sales have collapsed, although in that case it has been more for the Byd overwhelming thrustthat he did not paint anything in 2020 and that from 2021 he experienced a vertiginous rise in the Chinese market. Byd’s success in Spain is also a reality, and it is because it follows the same tactic as Xiaomi: “bargain cars” that have surprising benefits for their price, at least if we compare them with those of traditional manufacturers models. And the tariffs not seem to impact. The European Union It has been since October 2024 Applying tariffs to the Chinese electric car, and vary according to the brand between approximately 8 and 35%. China Has a Trojan horse With its combustion cars in hybrids, but it does not even seem to be needed, because even with those tariffs the price/performance ratio of Chinese electric cars are still remarkable. At least, for now. The ecosystem is the key. As with Apple, Xiaomi not only wants to sell you a car, but they sell a complete ecosystem. Its electric vehicles are part of that ecosystem in which the mobile, home automation and xiaomi appliances are integrated. All an integration that no other manufacturer has achieved, but that Xiaomi has already well profiled. Let us remember what happened to mobiles. Xiaomi first focused on China and then Start an international expansion that many users were waiting. He triumphed with his baroteléphones for a few years, but ended up remarkably: for years he competes as one more in the high -end market – who tells them to Xiaomi 15 Ultra– And created two submarks (Redmi and little) so that they were the ones that offered more modest and affordable mobiles. It remains to be seen as its strategy with its electric cars. Image | Xiaomi In Xataka | Byd promised them very happy with his new plant in Mexico. He has just canceled all his plans

Chery believes that China can get the same quality as Europeans in half of time. And in Spain it is working

by

Speed ​​and adaptability. Those are two of the pillars on which Chery’s strategy is based on Europe. The company has broken into the Spanish market with force despite having a handful of models distributed among three different companies. Lilian Xiong, Vice President of Chery, explains why these Chinese brands have managed to advance so fast. “We need three or four years”. That is time, according to Xiong, those who need to build a car like omoda 9 “since we design the initial concept until we have the model.” Words pick them up Business Insider in an interview with the board. In it, he explains that his ability to adapt and speed are two of the great differences that exist with Europeans. And, in fact, The round trip between Europe and China It is a good example of how this is happening. While in Europe, Chinese cars do not stop gaining land, in China the western ones lose it by Not knowing how to adapt to the tastes of the local market. We know what they are talking about. As we explain when Xiaomi presented its novel interior For the Xiaomi Yu7, in Xataka We have had the opportunity to know the speed with which Chinese brands work. In informal talks, workers of these companies have explained that the proposals that in European groups would extend for years here apply it in a few months. We know that some cars have arrived in versions of preiest very little adjusted to what the Spanish public claims and shortly after they have presented themselves to the press and have put themselves in the concessionaires with the suspension and the refined direction. Components have even changed in the vehicle itself. Adaptation. That ability to adapt is another of the great advantages that Chinese cars are offering. Chery cars (omoda, Jaecoo and Ebro) are being refined in Europe to adapt to what the European public expects. Xiong points out that for that, its Barcelona plant is key since they did a previous job before confirming the landing. But not just them, Leapmotor is refining her cars in BaloccoAlfa Romeo’s house, to put cars that do not small suspensions and extraordinarily soft directions, as is the case in China. Also byd has proposed to do the same using Your Hungary plant and the new departments that Xpeng is opening in Germany They also point to that address. The software. Another key piece to attract the public is that cars begin to be defined by the software and not so much for the hardware. “Before producing a car was based on the assembly of pieces. Now they are much more important elements such as software, which will mark a great change in industry,” says Xiong in the interview. This, in a market where the car has increased and interior materials are no longer as luxurious as before, it is key. You just have to get on board the Omoda 5 To verify that the quality of its camera is much better than that of European rivals despite having a lower cost. Or what OMODA 9 equipment is very wide (Electric seats, heated and ventilated with massage, speakers integrated in the headrests, 14 speakers Sony equipment …) offering better impression than most of its rivals. It shows in the price. That approach of focusing on the software and not so much on the hardware, understood as the body and the vehicle’s chassis, is not unique to Chery. Specialists in riding and disassembling cars They already alerted Toyota a few months ago that his way of working was becoming obsolete. The problem is that the Japanese had taken an extreme care in Perfect even the unspeakable carspaying maximum attention to every detail. However, Byd or Tesla saved many pieces, kilos and money in their vehicles because they use greater number of plastic components instead of heavy metals. Without vibrations of the combustion engine, the dashboard parts were subjected to less stress. And also in time. All this allows them to reduce the price and increase the profit margin thanks to a less complex and faster production. Focusing “what is seen” more than in the bowels of the vehicle is a decision that is conquering the public. In what we have been, the Chery group has enrolled in Spain more than 11,000 cars, which places them at the same level as Opel and begin to approach Ford or Citroën. However, all of the above are marks settled while Omoda arrived with 2024 already startedJaecoo did not do the same until second half of the year and Ebro only has a handful of months Selling their cars in our country. And, above all, they have managed to add more than 11,000 registrations between January and May despite the fact that until the arrival of omoda 9 and the Ebro S800 They had more than three cars in the market (one for each of them) and they are still a newcomer company. So newcomer that, in fact, omoda is only three years behind. Photo | Omoda In Xataka | Family and friends keep asking me if “it is worth buying a Chinese car.” This is my answer

We already know what substance the prehistoric Europeans for their shamanic rites consumed

by

Some strands of hair 3,000 years hidden in a corner of the island of Menorca. It is all that a group of researchers needed to find direct evidence older of the consumption of psychoactive substances in Europe. Drugs attributed to local shamans and their religious rites, in which they would be used as sensory potentiars. How to get here. Until now the evidence of this type of substance in the past were indirect: samples found in vessels or remains of plants in the deposits, as pointed out in statements collected by The country Elisa Guerra twelve, one of the authors of the investigation. The strands in which the substances were detected had been dyed red and hairstyles before their cut. “Thanks to extraordinary conservation conditions, the hair and all the instruments used in their treatment have reached our days and have been able to be scientifically analyzed,” he explained In a press release Cristina Rihuete, another of the researchers involved in the finding. Three alkaloids. The substances identified in the strands are the efedrine, atropine and scopolamine alkaloids. The first of these substances is a stimulant today used, for example, as a bronchodilator. Atropine and scopolamine on the other hand are substances considered hallucinogenic and psychoactive. These substances can be found in different plants belonging to the insular flora of Menorca, such as the epfradra (Ephedra Fragilis), the mandragora (Mandragora Autumnalis), The White Beleño (Hyoscyamus albus) and the estramonium (Stramonium datura), All of them belonging to the Solanáceas family. A small necropolis. Due to the context, the researchers consider that drugs were consumed before dying. The capillary samples belong to ten individuals, of the 210 who could be buried in the cave. The fact that the funeral rite of these ten individuals was slightly different from that of the rest, together with the fact that other differences are not appreciated that could denote a society with classes, castes or other form of social stratification, makes researchers think that it was some kind of shamans or spiritual or religious leaders. Multidisciplinary team. The details about the investigation were published in An attrition In the magazine Scietific Reports. It details that the substances were found when performing a liquid chromatography of ultra high performance coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS). The team responsible for the finding was made up of prehistoriators and archaeologists from the University of Valladolid and the Research Group of Mediterranean Social Archeoecology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Asome-UB); and for Hermann M. Niemeyer, chemist from the University of Chile. Interior of the COVA des Càrritx (above); Vaso with a spoon and wood comb found in the Menorquín site (below). ASOME-UAB. It is Càrritx. Closed by a detachment about 2,800 years agothe Càrritx cave was rediscovered in 1995 by two local speleologists, Pere Arnau and Josep Márquez, who achieved in that year access to their interior. The cave is located northwest of the island of Menorca, about 10 kilometers from Ciutadella and extends throughout 170 meters, in a route in which seven rooms are distinguished, the first vestibular being, the place where the human remains were found. The other important part of this funeral complex was after a narrow passage, in room six. In it the archaeologists found the locks of human hair introduced in cylindrical containers created from of woodwood, heather and olive and bovid horn. Other objects such as glasses and a wooden comb were also found; ceramic pieces and a bronze blade. On either side of the Atlantic. The use of “shamanic drugs” is often associated with pre -Columbian cultures, but we have long known that it was actually much more widespread. A example of this is the use of derivatives of the cannabis In the China of the Zhou dynasty, 2,500 years ago. Guerra-Doce made A few years ago a Review to archaeological tests of drug and fermented drug use in prehistory. With the new work, our knowledge about the use of this type of chemicals expands. Perhaps we never know the details about the rituals in which the alkaloids found were used, but little by little we are knowing details about how they were who inhabited Europe millennia before us. And some things they had in common with us. Images (cover) | Jason Swanson, CC0 1.0 / Gugatchitchinadze, CC by-SA 4.0 In Xataka | The new era of psychedelia: how some “recreational” drugs want to help us with our mental health In Xataka | For thousands of years, Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens tried to mate insistently. Genetics had another idea

This Chinese byd car looks at the face of many Europeans of 100,000 euros

by

Lombardy is all that one can expect from northern Italy. It is the most populous region in the country. The richest. A place where luxury, design and industry are mixed. Based in a single region the idyllic sunset in the lake as, where Swiss atmosphere is already breathed, the elegance of Armani, the great of Il duomo of Milan and the maximum representation of the latest technology with the monoplays of Formula 1 traveling at full speed the Monza circuit. It was not in Monza but in a circuit where Denza made us a first demonstration of what they have prepared for Europe. One of Byd’s luxury companies let us sit in his denza Z9GT, a kind of Shooting Brake Sports, exquisite dyes and a technological load that surprises. Unfortunately, we only stay in the Vairano circuit enclosure, between Milan and Pavia. At the moment, cars are not approved to circulate on European roads but will do it very soon. Despite this, it was a most interesting day. What is coming As We already told you a few days agoByd will bring to Europe one of its luxury brands. We could say that it is its premium brand, one step above byd (the generalist) and Yangwang (the most extreme luxury). But the truth is that, seen what was seen, he will denied more to what a Porsche can offer than an Audi, if we speak in terms of the Volkswagen group. The really complicated to denza, which was born as Fruit of a collaboration with Mercedesis to demonstrate that it can sit at the table of a Porsche which is a reference in the European car. His experience, his history and his product have elevated him to a very special position, conquering the wealthiest fans who could well buy a Ferrari but also to more modest pockets (within what fits) that aspire to take some Porsche to the mouth with the most modest versions of a Macan or a Cayenne. Everything indicates that he denies does not aspire, or from afar, to make a large volume of sales. It seems clear that it is about demonstrating to the skeptics where China is (and more specifically byd) in the car market. Technologies that surprise We are accustomed to luxury European manufacturers, those who choose to offer great performance, focus on the mechanical capacities of their propellers. The most powerful BMW and Mercedes, the Porsche of reference, all direct their speech to the latest innovations they have achieved with their combustion propuls. It seems to make sense seeing that electric cars seem to have been far from that luxury market in Europe Or, at least, they don’t have such a great attraction power. In China, however, it bets more on the most striking games. To show this article of Bloomberg in which the opinion of a wealthy driver who had been very disappointed because his Porsche Taycan “was only an electric Porsche” was collected. Hence it will jump to the local market. The public in China asks for other types of solutions. For example, the byd parking system. A chuchería that, honestly, I think it is useless for day to day but demonstrates how technically advanced the company. And this Z9GT denies is able to turn on its front axle rotating the butt (at the cost of burn tire) and park in line with, it is supposed to be greater. This same system called Enge Parking He uses it to move completely diagonally, a especially rare sensation when you go inside the car. The interesting thing is the real practical application that technology has here. The car has a tiper rear axle. That is, the rear wheels can be turned in the same direction as the front (to round the curve) or in the opposite direction, to reduce the radius of rotation and maneuver more easily. But, in addition, they do not have to turn to the right or left parallel. They may roll them use a convergent or divergent position. That is, they open or close on themselves and, therefore, the possibilities when parking multiply, allowing this option to rotate the car on the front axle or move diagonally. Without a doubt, the most interesting thing is to check how a car of almost 5.20 meters moves in very narrow spaces. In places where a compact of four and a half meters would need several maneuvers to get out of the quagmire. If it came out of it. This technology is combined with a body control exquisite. In our passes through the circuit we submit to the Chinese Berlina to different lands, with broken asphalt or with undulations. Especially in this last land, the car contained the body perfectly. Passing at good speed, we do not feel at any time that the situation would rise and that inertia and weights became the protagonists. That body control reached the extreme during one of the star tests of the day. A driver aboard a Z9GT denza was at the end of the track, accelerated with all his might and when he had overcome the 180 km/h, a deaf noise confirmed what had already advanced it with a small pink smoke: the tire had burst. What happened? Nothing. That is the most chilling. If a car bursts the tire at 180 km/h we can expect the body to move and the driver will lose control of the car shortly that the steering wheel touches to compensate for the puncture. None of this happened because the tire suspension system immediately compensates for the loss of support that the wheel exerts. With great detail As we say, we can say little about the car running. In fact, we don’t even have the technical specifications of the cars that will arrive because, in the absence of homologation, we get on cars with Chinese specifications. The z9gt denza is sold in electrical format but we We tried it in its plug -in hybrid version. It is a … Read more

The EU has asked all Europeans to collection for 72 hours. Finland has been doing it for years and this has gone

by

“New realities demand a new level of preparation in Europe.” The phraseIt is from the president of CE, Úrsula von der Leyen, and defines well The turn who has just given Brussels with the presentation of his ‘Union strategy’a plan with which Brussels aspires that EU homes are prepared for “emerging threats and crises.” Among its 30 guidelines there is a especially curious And that has generated expectation: Brussels wants European homes to supply enough supplies to survive without external help at least 72 hours during emergencies. You will not have to look far to know how to do it: in Finland he has a teacher who has been doing pedagogy for some time about the importance of prepare for crisis and that households are self -sufficient for 72 hours. Prepare for emergencies? That’s how it is. The CE has just launched a plan with which the 27 member countries (and their homes) are more prepared to “emerging threats.” Which is it? In The statement in which the EU initiative presents some, such as Climate changethe natural disastersthe Cybersecurity… And “the growing tensions and geopolitical conflicts”, the latter especially interesting with the EU in full Rearme process and distancing Between Brussels and Washington. To make it clear that the plan approach is wide von der Leyen He stressed The importance of households living in flood areas know how to act whether their houses are flooded or expedite the response times against forest fires. Of course they are not the only emergencies in mind. Yesterday The country The draft advanced From the document and among the threats for which Brussels wants us to be prepared “the possibility of armed aggression”. Click on the image to go to Tweet. And how do we prepare? The strategy drawn by Brussels touches many sticks. In fact it includes 30 “key actions” and an action plan in which we talk about issues such as preparing hospitals and schools, improving the storage of critical materials, reinforcing civil-military cooperation, improving disaster prevention and threats and working with partners such as NATO. Among all these proposals there is one however one that has generated expectation: the European Commission wants households to have “essential supplies during a minimum of 72 h in emergency situations. “ In The practice That happens that families have water reserves, medications, batteries and sufficient foods to subsist three days without help. “In case of external disturbances, the initial period is the most critical,” warns the CE In his draft. For the message to be even clearer, today, coinciding with the presentation of the Community Strategy, the Crisis Management Commissioner, Hadja Lahbib, has hung A video in which it reveals what should be included in an emergency kit. Is it a surprise? No. And not only by the international climate, marked by three years of war in Ukraine and the awareness that Europe will not be able to count forever (and unconditionally) with “The security umbrella” of the US. Months ago the former president of Finland, Sauli Niinisto, elaborated A broad report on behalf of Von der Leyen in which the “urgency” of strengthening Europe was already advancing to changes in “the geopolitical and security panorama.” “The key task today is to ensure that we are able to provide security to Europeans and are prepared for all risks,” Niinisto insisted at the time. One from The observations collected in their report pointed out that all homes must be equipped to be self -sufficient for at least 72 hours. And those orientations They have played a key role in the plan now drawn up by Brussels. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Is there any reference? Yes. Finland herself, an EU member who shares More than 1,300 km of border with Russia and Lidia with other handicaps, such as its climate or war history. Are those or not the causes the truth is that the Nordic nation It takes time preparing their population to deal with crises and their citizens are more than accustomed to messages that recommend having sufficient provisions to subsist without external help for at least 72 hours. Moreover, Finland, like other countries around his surroundings, such as Sweden either Norwaydistributed months ago An exhaustive guide in which it explained to its population how to prepare against incidents and crisis. In the document, Available onlineis addressed how to respond to electricity and water cuts, prolonged interruptions of banking services and the Internet, extreme natural phenomena or “long -term crisis, such as a pandemic or military conflict.” “With what emergency fights?” That is one of the first questions that the Finns who resort to the guide must answer. The list It is wide and includes from cybersecurity problems to forest fires, storms, floods, terrorist attacks, current and water cuts, epidemics or “military conflicts.” “Preparation is a civic skill in the current world situation”, pointed a few months ago to Bloomberg Kimmo Kohvakka, General Director of Rescue Services. “Knowing what to do in case of incident is a solid base.” How are you doing with 72 h? What there is no doubt is that Finland has managed to expand the message that households must provide resources and prepare to endure independently for at least three days in case they deal with, for example, supply cuts. He recognizes it in The Guardian Suvi Aksela, of Nasta: “The 72 hours have become a brand here in Finland.” To achieve this, their authorities have had to make an interesting pedagogy effort that goes back several years. For some time Finland celebrates every beginning of February the National preparation dayduring which the authorities Remember Its inhabitants who must have what they need to fix them without public services for at least 72 hours in case of emergencies such as natural disasters or military attacks, including kits. That zeal connects with decades of works of preparation in the country and has made it A reference In the matter. Would you survive 72 hours? Perhaps one of the … Read more

We have been looking for the mysterious ancestor town of the Indo -Europeans. We have a new track in DNA

by

We know that Latin languages ​​have their common origin in Latin peoples such as the one that ended up forging the Roman Empire. We know that Germanic languages ​​had their origin in the Germanic tribes that at that same time inhabited northern Europe. But these two language families have a common trunk that goes back to prehistory, the language protoindoeuropeo. Now, who spoke this language? CLV. A new study He has discoveredthrough a genetic analysis in several archaeological sites in Europe, a new prehistoric group, an archaic society that they have called people of the Caucasus-Bajo Volga or CLV (Caucasus-Lower Volga). As the study concludes, this town could be linked to the protoindo -European language and with Its expansion. The protoindoeuropeo. The protoindoeuropeo (foot) language is the “common ancestor” of numerous contemporary languages, including Spanish and the rest of languages ​​spoken in the Peninsula (except Basque). A list that includes from English to Persian, through Russian and Greek. It is estimated that about half of the world population speaks languages ​​with this origin. This language would have been the speech of one or more prehistoric peoples of the border region between Europe and Asia. The migrations starring this group would have given rise to the speakers of this language ending their linguistic imprint in much of Eurasia. And more than linguistics, also genetics. From Yamnaya to Clv. Genetics had already given us important clues about these peoples, allowing us The so -called Yamnaya culturea population that would have inhabited the steppes north of the Caspian between the years 3,300 and 2,600 before our era. These analyzes had focused on this culture as probable vector of Indo -European expansion around the year 3,100 aec But there was a problem with its own name: the Anatolias languages, a group of languages ​​already extinct among which was included, for example, the hitita. These languages ​​would have been the first to break down from the common Indo -European trunk, before acquiring “steppe features.” This implied that this separation would have occurred before the arrival of Yamnaya culture and that there should be a protoindo -European group prior to this from which both anatolias languages ​​arose and those that would later derive in the Greek, Latin or Celta. Now, the new Study points to the people of the CLV as possible common ancestors of both. More than 4,000 years ago. All thanks to genetics. The new work studied the DNA of 435 individuals found in various archaeological sites in Eurasia, covering a period between the years6,400 and 2,000 AEC the details of the study were broken down In an article Posted in the magazine Nature. Missing link. Genetic analysis pointed out that Yamnaya’s group would have inherited about 80% of its ancestry of the CLV population, which in turn would have legacked about 10% of its ancestry to the anatolians. This makes this mysterious group the common ancestors of the populations that initiated the expansion of Indo -European languages ​​during the Copper Age. In Xataka | Looking for money, they found gold: this was Dmanisisis Gora, the megafortiness of the Caucasus built 3,000 years ago Image | XVODOLAZX / Denis Vitchenko

Log In

Forgot password?

Forgot password?

Enter your account data and we will send you a link to reset your password.

Your password reset link appears to be invalid or expired.

Log in

Privacy Policy

Add to Collection

No Collections

Here you'll find all collections you've created before.