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His mega -study for trucks is the largest in the world

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Huawei has presented the first 100 MW recharge station. The space is designed for the recharge of large -tonnage electric trucks and has put a new roof if we talk about power available in the loaders. It is just another example of how the company is becoming a reference in the market for electric mobility in the country. The biggest in the world. There is only one electric vehicle recharge station with 100 MW. It is in China, of course, and Huawei has raised it. The technology company has opened in Beichuan Qiang, a county in the center of the country, the largest load station in the world for available power, according to Carnewschina. The space is designed for electric truck recharge and its location makes all the meaning, far from the big cities. The most important city in the area is Chongqing that has more than 30 million inhabitants but is 400 kilometers away. This gives an idea of ​​the existing complications to join the large Chinese cities through the use of electric vehicles. In data. As for pure and hard data, Huawei station It is summarized in the following: 18 load points with 1.44 MW powers 108 load points at 600 kW A total capacity of 100 MW of power Two storage spaces of 215 kWh It is estimated that they can recharge up to 700 trucks daily Understanding it. To have a clearer what all these numbers mean, the first thing we have to take into account is that In Spainmost of the rapid recharge points are 150 kW. The most advanced are delivering between 350 and 400 kW but are exceptional. Besides, There are barely cars that can recharge more than 250 kW at the moment. Powers such as those commented above are only available for trucks since a battery is needed that is able to assimilate that power. Byd, in China, has 1 MW chargers that can be used for private vehicles but already explained that the true target audience is heavy transport. With a 1 MW load point, a byd car can recharge 400 kilometers in five minutes. In Carnewschina They point out that at that time a truck recovers about 100 kilometers. It is not a problem since it is assumed that in heavy transport longer stops are expected to rest. A reef. With this type of recharges, Huawei shows that he has found a huge business road. Although byd loaders have been the ones who have caused the most expectation, China technology is another of the big companies than He is developing his own loaders And you can look at you from you. In the case of this new loading station, Huawei presumes the integration of photovoltaic energy, which allows it to reduce its environmental impact but, above all, function disconnected from the main network which allows it to mitigate the pressure on it. It ensures a microred in which the type of energy consumed is balancing and renewable is prioritized. And a reference. The company has risen as one of the market references. In addition to these huge load stations and their 1.5 MW power plugs, it also has a good network of 600 kW loaders for passenger vehicles that, as we have seen, are more than enough for current vehicles. The competitive advantage over the rivals is that Huawei presumes having worked on the liquid cooling of the charger so as not to overheat the system and, therefore, that the loading power is reduced. The company assured in the late 2024 that it has already deployed 50,000 of these plugs around the country, distributed throughout 200 cities. And it is not the only open front that the company has in the electric car. Right now, it is offering its technology to sustain infotainment systems or software management in firms as powerful in China as Maextrowith whom you have for sale A luxury sedan of almost five and a half meters long Photo | Huawei In Xataka | While European manufacturers think about what the car of the future will be like, Huawei is already thinking about the post-coche era

It is not that the war has entered its Mad Max phase, is that Ukraine is using the trucks we saw in the movie

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In the month of June some began to arrive disturbing images From the war in Ukraine. We had previously seen how First and second World War were recognized in Some practicesbut the last was radical: waves offensive of Russian troops on two wheels, in motorcycles as a main tool to move towards the Ukrainian lines, in an attempt to avoid the destruction of their armored Modern to the power of drones. To that phase He has followed another almost traced to Miller’s movie. An improvised armor. Yes, the war in Ukraine has turned the battlefields into stages that remind of Mad Max universewith military vehicles covered by improvised shields seeking to resist the scourge of explosive drones. A recent image Taken in Kostiantynyaivka, north of Donetsk, showed a Humvee American used by Ukraine surrounded by a huge metal cage with networks and sticks protruding from its structure, an extreme example of solutions of fortune That both Russians and Ukrainians develop to try to protect themselves from an increasingly lethal enemy: the small drones that, with costs of just a few hundred dollars, are capable of destroying armor of millions. Origin and evolution. These protective screens, popularly known as “Cope Cages”began to be seen months ago, when the proliferation of drones transformed the land war. Initially they were installed only in combat cars and armored vehicles, but soon They spread to a wide range of systems. Your designs They vary greatly: Some structures are crude and heavy, others are better planned, incorporating metal cages, steel plates, chains, skewers, camouflage networks and even reactive armor to reinforce the most vulnerable areas. In the Russian case, some tanks have become completely coveredwhat has earned them the nickname “Tortuga tanks” for its resemblance to the shell of these animals. Industrial adaptation What began as improvisation of the soldiers themselves has evolved towards a more organized production. In fact, the Russian army already distributes official instructions for the construction of these cages, while in Ukraine several companies have developed versions adapted to different models, since T-64 and T-72 tanks of Soviet origin to the Abrams and Bradley supplied by the United States, even through Patriot antiacere systems. Despite this, the real effectiveness of these devices is the object of debate. The reason? Although they can offer some protection against FPV drones and some anti -tank weapons, Its weight and volume They usually hinder mobility and vehicle operations. The omnipresent drone. It We have counted many times. He drone boom low cost, used massively by both sides, has consolidated its role as asymmetric factor Decisive: They are able to neutralize high -value vehicles or eliminate entire crews with a minimum investment. The proliferation of this type of weapons has forced the last resort defenses as These “Cope Cages”but it has also promoted the development of more sophisticated technological measures. Electronic countermeasures. Both Ukraine and Russia resort to extensively to The electronic warblocking communications between operators and drones or interfering with your systems GPS navigation. In response to this, new generations of drones resistant to these techniques have emerged, such as connection models by optical fiberthat maintain a direct physical link with the operator and leave behind cable kilometers in the field. Outside, drones endowed of artificial intelligence They begin to be used more frequently, capable of completing their missions even if the connection is interrupted. Race between attack and defense. If you also want, the image of vehicles covered by improvised cages is the visible materialization of the New war dynamics In Ukraine: a constant career between the offensive capacity of cheap drones and the defensive creativity of soldiers and engineers. Although, as we said, some of these shields offer limited protection, their expansion reflects the urgency with which both armies try to adapt to an environment where the main threat does not always come from a long -range missile, but from a small artisanal drone that, thrown by an operator kilometers away, can decide the fate of a combat car that costs a fortune. Image | Special Kherson Cat, Heute, X, Аinform In Xataka | Ukraine has opened the most advanced Drone Kamikaze in Russia. Now they know what the key to their power is: nvidia In Xataka | Ukraine has hunted an “invisible” drone of Russia. The surprise has been capitalized when opening it: it is “made in USA”

The most emblematic trucks in the US are multiplying in Russia. And they are using them to bomb Ukraine

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Last week, a documentary broadcast on the television channel of the Russian Army, Zvezda, revealed the Greater Russian Drones Factory fighting. In the images not only We saw hundreds of drones Geran-2 black finished, all in a row within the secret installation. We also saw that the factory had its own test field where the devices were mounted on trucks that serve as a shuttle. The model was surprising. Made in USA trucks. A Kyiv Independent Research He has revealed a mechanism for evasion of sanctions that allows Russia to have American pickup trucks, specifically the successful RAM 1500 models TRXdespite the prohibition of exporting them after the large -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The finding is particularly alarming because after the Zvezda documentary It has been verified that Kamikaze drones They are launched from these modified RAM 1500 models. According to the mediumalthough Ukraine points out that fixed catapults are more reliable for takeoff, the simple appearance of these vehicles in official propaganda demonstrates the use of western goods in Russian military machinery. Evasion of sanctions. After the imposition of sanctions, Stellantis (owner of the RAM brand) interrupted in 2022 All export to Russia. However, since then At least 130 RAM 1500 They have entered the country through indirect routes. Here are several companies based in the Arab Emirates, such as Automax Motors Fze, Fine Cars Eaeu-Fze or Mehrzad Post & Shipping, who have acted as intermediariesre -exporting dozens of vehicles to private Russian companies in San Petersburg and Moscow. This technique of “Transhipment”It is a classic evasion method, where goods first travel to a non -sanctioning country before being sent to Russia. In social networkssome of these firms have openly presumed shipments for Russia, which shows the laxity of control in certain Gulf markets. The direct route from the USA. But there is something more serious. It was discovered that Arivir Corpa company based in Virginia, sold at least eight RAM 1500 TRX manufactured in 2023 directly to the Russian subsidiary Arivir Rus, owned by a Russian citizen. According to filtered customs documents, the procedure It was systematic: The American company acquired vehicles in concessionaires, reluctant their Russian counterpart and managed shipping. No doubt, this trade clearly violates US export restrictions unless there was A special licensewhich is almost impossible to obtain in this context. Neither Arivir Corp nor the other firms contacted responded to research consultations. Instead, the Stellantis group has given explanations. The group remember that “has stopped all sales of vehicles in Russia and suspended its manufacturing operations in that country” from 2022. And he adds that “contractually prohibits all distribution channels sending vehicles to Russia.” Strategic implications. The experts consulted By ki they underline That any export of this type without a license constitutes a violation of the export controls of the United States, regardless of the location of the intermediary. In addition, the companies involved could face to secondary sanctions that would affect their ability to operate in the international market. For Ukraine, the situation reveals both the insufficiency of sanctions compliance mechanisms and the need for Western manufacturers to reinforce YOUR CONTROL SYSTEMS of customers and distributors. What are apparently simple trucks becomes a war resource capable of integrating into the Attack infrastructure Russian, adding another layer of complexity to the international effort to weaken Moscow’s military capacity. Image | Zvezda In Xataka | We already know what Russia’s trick is to multiply its drones: it is called “cooling units” and comes direct from China In Xataka | The Russian threat has activated the “Nordic model” in Germany. The Plan: Recruit 40,000 adolescents a year in the Army

The remote roads of Teruel are filled with trucks loaded to the top of clay. The reason: Ukraine

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When in de February 2022 The Kremlin troops advanced on Ukraine a complex domino effect was activated that ended up letting himself be felt far beyond the battlefield. The war altered global geopolitics, the Financial systemthe agriculturethe energyhe air transportthe world market … and also (in a turn as unexpected as surprising) The national roads of the Maestrazgo and Bajo Aragón regions, in the province of Teruel. The pumps and bullets fly about 3,000 kilometers away, away from Aragon, but its effect is evident on Turolenses roads. There the war has unleashed an intense heavy traffic that is saturating the roads “Feeling of insecurity”. Aguaviva, more of Las Matas, Castellote, breast, mills and the Parras de Castellote are six municipalities of Teruel that in April They joined forcesnext to the town of Cuevas de Cañart, to send A joint letter to the Government of Aragon and the Provincial Council. In it basically they alerted a problem that worries the residents of the seven territories: in just a few years their roads have been filled with hundreds of trucks, which has generated concern for the security or the state of infrastructure. Accidents. The municipalities do not speak only of risks or abstract threats. His letter was written weeks after a truck collided Against a bus in Aguaviva and just two months after Another trailer I would have overturned after leaving the road, an incident that It was not new either. The result, as the mayor of Aguaviva recognized in April to the newspaper Heraldis that neighbors live with “a very large sense of insecurity.” That without counting on The deterioration which causes heavy traffic on tracks and roads that are not prepared for trucks. From asphalt to regional policy. The issue did not take to transcend the municipalities of the regions of Bajo Aragón and Maestrazgo to make the leap to regional policy. Teruel exists took the issue to the courts of Aragon, which A few weeks ago He claimed the regional government to seek a solution for Vials A-225 and A-226. In the background, the same problem: the transfer of hundreds of trucks, which according to some calculations overcome the 400 daily In Aguaviva, more than respectable figure if one takes into account that some live some 500 people. A few days ago the Diputación even went further and promised to invest 150,000 euros In the improvement of one of the roads affected by the trucks, the road that goes from the sale of La Pintada to Castellote by Molinos. A priori, money will be used to improve soft, correct the deformations caused by the daily transfer of trucks and renew the signaling. And why so many trucks? The key is what they transport. In their trailers they carry clay, raw material extracted from the MINES OF THE AREA For the ceramic industry and Castellón tile. That was for example the cargo of the truck that ended up colliding in Aguaviva against a bus or the one that overturned end of February. According to Ascer data (The employer of the sector nationwide) The ceramic industry represents around 22.2% of the industrial GDP of the Valencian Community and more than 32.2% of the total of Castellón’s GDP. As They point from The regionclay -loaded trucks leave Teruel and advance Morella, leaving an intense flow of vehicles that in some locations reaches several hundred daily. Recently the mayor of Castellote explained to The confidential That in the school where he works they have to keep the windows closed by the intense transfer of trucks that pass to about 300 meters from the center. “If I open them, I don’t hear the creatures,” he says. And what does it have to do with the Ukraine War? Simple. Ukraine is a huge supplier of the clay that is used in the manufacture of tiles. At the beginning of the war it was calculated that around the 70% of the raw material that imported the Spanish ceramic sector arrived from Donetsk, in the Donbás region. In February 2022 Ascer recognized his “worry” And the truth is that the sector has not taken to look for alternatives, including neighboring Mines de Aragón. In October 2022 Aragon News already pointed out that the clay mining of the region were seeing how their activity shot. If in 2020 the quarries of Teruel had produced a million tons, two years later it was expected that this volume exceeds the five million. And not just that. The increase in activity was accompanied by multiple studies to activate farms. The earthquake. Since 2022 the trend does not seem to have stopped. While Ukraine is still shaken by bombs and drone attacks, Teruel has seen how her clay mining was sued. The data of Aragon News are eloquent again: production has shot, with dozens and tens of permissions for farms. Joaquín Moreno, councilor of Utrillas and deputy of Teruel exists, calculates that with the outbreak of the Ukraine War the number of exploits and investigation licenses has been quintupled. Just a year ago Portsur de Castellón received The first ship With clay of Ukraine from the outbreak of the war, a cargo of 52,000 tons for the company Vesco Clays Spain. That has not prevented, however, that the peoples of Bajo Aragón and Maestranza warn of how they are affecting the changes in the sector to their roads. It is the (another) face B of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Images | Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (Flickr) and Manel Zaera (Flickr) In Xataka | Aragon wanted his children to eat more fruit at school. So he went to look for her 10,000 kilometers away

Where there were humans before, there are now data. Huawei and Huaneng have deployed 100 driverless trucks in a mine in China

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A row of trucks loaded to the top crosses the mine without anyone holding the steering wheel. They move alone, precisely, As if they were choreographed. And we do not talk about a prototype or laboratory tests: this is already happening in the Yimin mine, northeast of China. According to SCMPthe state group Huaneng has deployed the largest individual fleet of electric trucks without driver operated with Huawei technology in a single mining operation. Behind this deployment is Huawei’s technology, along with advances by Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group and the Beijing University of Science and Technology. In total, there are 100 vehicles of large tonnage, known as Huaneng Ruichi, they move tons of coal without human intervention, even in adverse climatic conditions. According to Li Shuxue, president of Huaneng Mengdong, it is the largest coordinated deployment of this type of vehicles. Connectivity and cloud, two key elements Everything works thanks to a combination of advanced technologies: 5G-Advanced connectivity, artificial intelligence (AI), high precision mapping, cloud computing and intelligent battery exchange. Zhang PinganCEO of Huawei Cloud, explained that the 5G-A, also known as 5.5g, allows to operate with extremely low latency and very high speed. In an industrial environment like this, that response capacity is key. But this has done nothing but start. Huaneng plans to expand the fleet to 300 autonomous trucks in this same mine for the next three years. And the impulse goes beyond Yimin. The National Chinese Coal Association has projected a “Explosive growth” of unmanned mining trucks in 2026. The forecast is that the figure doubles in 2026. Automation is already noticed: the same association estimates that operating costs have been reduced around 8 % in mines that have incorporated these systems. The advances we are seeing in Chinese mining are part of a broader strategy to modernize traditional Asian giant sectors with advanced technology. And what today unfolds within its borders also begins to emerge as an opportunity in other markets. Now, there is another deployment that should be taken into account. In the Zaha Naoer mine, also in Interior Mongolia, they have been put into operation 135 autonomous trucks of extended range that operate daily. The project, promoted by China Power Investment, has other technological suppliers and a different architecture. How does Sina Finance collectthe operation started as a pilot in 2024 and already accumulates more than 770,000 kilometers traveled, with more than five million cubic meters of extracted material. Although the total number of vehicles is higher, it is not a homogeneous deployment. Unlike the case of Huawei, in Zaha Naoer, trucks use diverse systems, some with extended autonomy, and do not respond to a single technological platform. This allows Huaneng to present the Yimin project as the greatest individual, integrated and electrical deployment that has been carried out so far. The infrastructure that makes it possible includes mixed networks of 4g and 5g The infrastructure that supports the Zaha Naoer fleet is backed in mixed 4G and 5G networks, cloud control centers and coordination systems between vehicles. If one of the trucks detects an anomalythe system transmits data in real time so that technicians can intervene remotely without interrupting the operation. Beyond the technological deployment, automation is also reconfiguring the organization of work in the mines. In Zaha Naoer, for example, the use of autonomous trucks has considerably reduced the need for cabin personnel: 325 less drivers and a monthly savings estimated at 4,000,000 yuan. At the same time, operational security has been reinforced, with less direct exposure to risk environments and greater control over each phase of the process. Images | Huaneng Group In Xataka | The US has been dreaming of its first high -speed train decades: the California project is being a real nightmare

Nikola had everything to revolutionize the world of hydrogen trucks. Now is on the verge of bankruptcy

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In 2014, and just over a decade after the appearance of Tesla, Nikola arrived. It was another automotive company, another that honored the electrical engineer and inventor And that he also wanted to mark the way in the world of electric vehicles. However, his incursion was not in the cars segment, but of trucks, which earned him the nickname ‘THE TESLA OF TRUCKS‘. He immediately caught attention, with promises such as electric and hydrogen trucks with autonomies of 2,000 kilometers. Today, its trucks are a mere memory and the company is on the verge of bankruptcy. On the edge of the abyss. That is what sources point in both Bloomberg as of The Washington Postwho claim that anonymous representatives of the company have told them that the company is evaluating their financial and liquidity needs to carry out a financial restructuring. And within the options, the sale of the company, the aforementioned restructuring and bankruptcy are included. The question is how a company that became valued -during a very brief period of time, yes- above a giant like Fordit has ended in this situation. And the full photo is quite eloquent. Chulo was, really, but it was just an idea Nikola Tesla. It was in 2016 when we met the company’s first truck, a six -wheeled beast, a power of 2,000 hp and the ability to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 30 seconds to maximum load. It could also maintain a speed of 100 km/h rising a 6% slope and, thanks to a pile of hydrogen, it had an autonomy of almost 2,000 kilometers. Your name? Nikola One. 375,000 dollars was what they were going to ask once to production, something that would begin in 2020. However, that 2020 and without having sold a single truck, Nikola became a public company. It was a strange movement because the only thing that existed were promises. Already We said In its presentation: very nice on paper, but although the truck could be reserved paying a tank of $ 1,500, there was no product. Two. Tre. Even so, Nikola continued to present trucks. The TWO was the following in 2017, a truck of which they did show a prototype that moved with electric motors and autonomies more restrained than those of the first: between 800 and 1,200 kilometers. It also has hydrogen battery, cameras instead of mirrors. And then the Tre In 2018, repeating hydrogen formula, up to 1,200 kilometers and a design more adapted to European roadswhere long morro trucks do not have so much place due to their maneuverability. They had three trucks on their way, but none produced and the promise was still to start deliver LO TESLA AND THE COMPANY affirmed that I already had customers with reservations of even 800 trucks in the US. Controversial. They did not wait and, in 2018, Nikola sued Tesla. It’s funny, really, but beyond the word game, it is because Nikola asked the Musk company due to alleged patent infractions for the Tesla Semithe proposal of electric truck of Tesla. According to them, Tesla had copied three key points of the Nikola One, such as the fiselogue design, the enveloping windshield and the entrance door. They looked, yes (and, for tastes, colors, but the semi looks like a van split in half and the One a more futuristic vehicle). But the main course arrived in 2020: due to accusations of fraud, The CEO and founder of Nikola, Trevor Milton, resigned. It was after a devastating report that Nikola described as a “ocean of lies” and pointed to Milton as responsible for mulminating shareholders to bet on the company. “There was no stack of fuel in the truck. We never affirmed that it existed,” Milton defended himself, who also boasted of having a lot of development technologies that turned out to be from third parties. Cancellations. Since 2020, the waters have been calmer, but that there would be no controversy does not mean that things were good for doors inside. The Badger, His rival against the Cybertruck de Teslait was canceled along with other prototypes and the number of hydrogen trucks does not give to sustain the company. In Bloomberg they point out that, during the first nine months of 2024, only 200 were sold and in October the company said they had effective to finance their operations until the first quarter of 2025, But not beyond. In December They offered Up to 100 million dollars in shares, but it seems that things have failed to take off. We will see what happens with ‘The Tesla of the trucks’, but its situation does not look good. In Xataka | Toyota wanted to make the star technology and the alternative to the electric car. They already doubt that it is possible

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