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CATL announces giant new 100 GWh battery plant in Hungary

August 12, 2022
CATL, the world’s largest battery manufacturer, has announced a plan to build a giant new battery plant in Hungary to supply automakers like Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited, abbreviated as CATL, sort of came out of nowhere. It was founded only a decade ago and has quickly become the world’s largest battery cell manufacturer by supplying key companies in…
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Podcast: Tesla Semi, FSD smear campaign, EV tax credit, EQS review and more

August 12, 2022
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. This week, we discussed Tesla Semi finally coming, a FSD Beta smear campaign, the EV tax credit reform passing the Senate, and more. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on…
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How to use Flex Mode on the Galaxy Z Flip and Z Fold

August 12, 2022
So you’re the proud owner of one of Samsung’s foldables. Look at you, you early adopter! There are obviously a few more ways to use your phone than a typical slab-style phone, and that’s probably why you bought one. Flex Mode is one of those features. That’s…
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Hypnotic Photos Show the Flight Paths of Birds and Bats

August 12, 2022
Lockdown Vultures (Moab Slope) Stifled by lockdown, photographer Doris Mitsch began to look up for inspiration and started photo-stacking bird flight paths with the editing sometimes taking her days to finish. “The photos take hours and hours and hours to edit. Some combine more than a thousand separate images,” Mitsch tells PetaPixel. Mitsch used a Canon 5D Mark III sometimes, and…
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Film Friday: Combining a Polaroid Model 455 and Fujifilm Instax 100 to make a retro Instax Wide camera

August 12, 2022
Fujifilm discontinued its FP instant pack film in 2016, opting instead to focus on its Instax film series. You can still find FP online, but it’s old and expensive. Fujifilm Instax Wide Instant film is 10.6 x 8.4cm and costs a bit over a dollar per photo, keeping instant photography relatively accessible. For Jim Skelton of Emulsive, the Instax Wide film is good, but the Instax 100 camera…
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