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Battery claims Battery claims September 15th 2024, Catl launch 1.5 million km bus batteries  These batteries have a 10 year 1 million km warranty and are projected for a “service life” of 15 years which I feel might be misinterpreted as some kind of time limit on battery life where really it's a projection for a battery clocking up more than 1 million km. https://cnevpost.com/2024/09/14/catl-launches-battery-electric-buses/ September 14th 2024, fly wheel storage goes live in China No one has crunched the numbers here, but especially as it is the first of its kind I suspect it would have been expensive.  This though symbolises the problem of competing with fossil fuels in a market economy.  Fossil fuel may be cheap at point of use, but the hidden costs are incomprehensibly high, the literally destruction of the eco system. But despite this we demand renewables to be cheaper than fossil fuels.  https://www.ess-news.com/2024/09/13/china-connects-its-first-large-scale-flywheel-storage-