The global electric vehicle (EV) industry has reached a pivotal milestone. The average price of lithium-ion battery packs has dropped below the USD 100 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) threshold, a benchmark long considered critical for achieving price parity between EVs and conventional gasoline-powered cars. This significant development is poised to accelerate the mass adoption of EVs worldwide.

 This trend is expected to continue in 2025, further solidifying EVs' competitiveness. Several factors have contributed to the decline in battery prices, including overcapacity in cell manufacturing, economies of scale, reduced prices for raw materials such as lithium, and the increased adoption of cost-effective lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) batteries…

In March 2025, Elsevier launched ScienceDirect AI, a world-renowned leader in science and health information science. This state-of-the-art generative AI tool can potentially transform the industry with its revolutionary advances in research. This advanced tool has been developed to enhance the productivity of researchers by enabling them to quickly extract, summarize, and compare insights from millions of book chapters and full-text articles available on ScienceDirect, the largest platform for peer-reviewed research.

Literature review is a time-consuming research activity that often takes 25% to 35% of the time. ScienceDirect AI solves this problem using modern AI technology to generate accurate, precise summaries and highlight essential…

China's refining sector showed resilience and adaptability in the first months of 2025, raising crude oil throughput by 2.1 percent over the year before. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, this increase resulted in a processing volume of almost 14.74 million barrels daily (bpd) over January and February.

One can attribute the increase in refinery output to several elements. Traditionally the season of more travel, the Lunar New Year celebrations resulted in higher gasoline and jet fuel consumption, increasing demand for refined goods. Furthermore, its first 200,000-bpd crude processing unit, which has been running at roughly 90 percent capacity since November, is the Shandong Yulong Petrochemical refinery, which started…

Leading technology giants Amazon, Google, and Meta have teamed up with other big energy users in a historic action at the CERAWeek 2025 energy conference in Houston to promote an ambitious initiative: doubling world nuclear power capacity by 2025. This extraordinary cross-industry commitment emphasizes how important nuclear energy is in improving resilience, energy security, and the supply of always clean electricity.

 Among the original pledge signatories are Amazon, Google, Meta, Dow, Occidental, Allseas, OSGE, and IHI. Their combined support shows an increasing understanding of nuclear power's ability to satisfy rising world energy consumption. The effort also asks other energy consumers to help triple nuclear energy capacity by 2025.

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In 2025, AI technology will change energy efficiency in buildings, marking another milestone in the shift towards renewable energy. With AI, Building Management Systems (BMS) can now guarantee energy monitoring and optimization, which minimizes waste and lowers costs to a greater degree.

One of the main features of AI in 2025 is its application in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. In traditional systems, HVAC comprises a large percentage of energy consumption. AI systems learn from IoT sensors to "understand" when a room is occupied and control the temperature to save energy while keeping people comfortable. A case study performed at 45 Broadway, Manhattan, showed that implementing BrainBox AI reduced HVAC energy…

The world of semiconductors is evolving with new advanced multichip packaging innovations in 2025. Due to the advancements, the chip's performance improves, mobile devices and new GenAI technology can be produced promptly, and production and manufacturing costs are reduced. The industry will transform thoroughly by the year 2025.

The classical chip manufacturing method integrates all functions into a single monolithic die. Unfortunately, this strategy is becoming increasingly less effective and efficient as time progresses towards 2025 due to its low herculean yield, high costs, and lack of scalability. A new strategy that creates better integrated flexibility and efficiency with more modular designs is on the rise. The new design involves…

In 2025, the global semiconductor industry is set to boom as sales are projected to increase by 15 percent, reaching nearly USD 721 billion. This growth is prominent in both the technological region and the aiding toward the clean energy shift.

With a spectacular 19.1 percent increase in 2024, the semiconductor market is predicted to grow steadily year over year. AI is expected to require "high-bandwidth memory (HBM)," which, in turn, will need more than 24 percent growth in the memory segment.

AI alongside High-Performance Computing (HPC) Recently entered phenomena such as AI technologies and the growth of machine learning and data centers are increasing the interest in high-end semiconductors. Industry leaders such as NVIDIA are already…

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband will visit China from March 17 to 19, 2025, to boost the United Kingdom’s (UK) renewable energy initiatives. This visit aims to revive the UK-China Energy Dialogue, excluding nuclear power, via clean and sustainable energy collaborations. Labor under Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to improve ties with China in 2025, moving from the Conservatives' cautious approach. This development shows the UK's awareness of China's role in the renewable energy supply chain, particularly in wind turbine and solar panel production.

Miliband's 2025 proposal seeks Chinese government, and private investor talks for UK renewable energy projects. This initiative supports the UK's 2030 goal of 95 percent non-hydrocarbon…

Japan has made a remarkable amendment to its energy policy, indicating an increased emphasis on nuclear energy in 2025. It plans to achieve a 20% share of nuclear energy in electricity generation by 2040, a complete reversal from its post-Fukushima stance of reducing nuclear energy dependency. At the same time, Japan is trying to achieve an optimal balance between energy security, climate targets, and economic growth in the face of unprecedented global energy volatility.

For the last decade and a half, Japan has been moving towards a phase-out of nuclear energy due to increasing opposition and safety issues surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. The new proposed changes come after reasoning due to increased global energy…

Driven by fast economic development and a rising need for electrification, India's energy consumption is expected to rise at an average annual rate of 6.3 percent from 2025 through 2027 (International Energy Agency, IEA). Mostly driven by a jump in cooling demand among increasing temperatures, this increase exceeds the average of 5 percent for 2015–2024. Further confirming India's importance in the global energy scene, the IEA projects that by 2027, India will contribute 10 percent of the overall rise in global power consumption.

Coal will remain the main energy source in India's power system in 2025 and beyond, even if renewable energy is expanding steadily. The IEA projects that, from 74 percent in 2024, coal will account for around 67…

The leaders in the global cloud infrastructure market, AWS and Microsoft, Azure, still dominate the sector with a market share of 31 percent and 20 percent, respectively, in 2025. While the competition is growing fiercer and cloud computing focused on AI is becoming more prevalent, both companies are investing heavily to diversify their offerings while dealing with increased regulations.

With AI-powered model-building and compliance solutions, AWS is aggressively expanding on AI for high-profile financial clients, such as JPMorgan and Bridgewater. On top of that, Amazon has announced a 17.2 million euros AI project to reduce the risk of floods in the Aragon region of Spain, which is also home to its new data centers.

At the same Microsoft…

Europe's electric vehicle (EV) market is anticipated to grow incredibly in 2025, with a projected growth in sales of 40 percent, meaning approximately 2.7 million units sold in total around Western Europe. While this growth is promising, it is hurting Tesla, a frontrunner in the market, as they struggle to keep up with their competition. The company's sales figures dropped drastically by 45 percent in early 2025, which is concerning given how strong the market is. Certain regions such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and France are witnessing stark declines in Tesla registrations, some areas seeing drops of nearly 50 percent. 

The most significant problem to tackle is growing competition from Tesla's rivals consisting of premium European…

Europe's main airlines are choosing smaller mergers and acquisitions (M&A) agreements instead of complete takeovers in the face of rising regulatory obstacles and financial worries. Minority stakes are also their preferred choice. With this calculated change, they want to improve their market share while cutting costs and facing less attention in 2025.

 Insiders in the business disclose that carriers like Lufthansa and Air France-KLM are changing their strategy by purchasing partial interests in other airlines, therefore avoiding lengthy legal clearance procedures. As European airlines try to compete with the more consolidated U.S. market and state-backed carriers from the Middle East in 2025, this represents a notable break from past…

The growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing is progressing at an astonishing pace in 2025. Increasing data center's reliance on energy has led utility and energy companies to invest heavily in natural gas infrastructure. Even though the environmental effects of natural gas are highly contested, it is quickly becoming one of the more desirable energy sources because AI-based workloads are pushing the energy requirements of data centers to all-new heights.

According to the US Energy Department, the electricity used by data centers grew from 58 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2014 to 176 TWh in 2023. This number is expected to grow to a staggering 580 by 2028, making an estimated 12 percent of the country's power consumption. To…