China Automotive Power Battery Industry Innovation Alliance: In November, the sales volume of power batteries in China increased by 29.7% year-on-year. According to the monthly information of power batteries in November 2024 released by China Automotive Power Battery Industry Innovation Alliance, the sales volume of power batteries and other batteries in China was 118.3GWh in November, up by 7.2% month-on-month and 40.1% year-on-year. Among them, the sales volume of power batteries was 87.8GWh, accounting for 74.2% of the total sales volume, up 10.9% from the previous month and 29.7% from the same period last year. The sales volume of other batteries was 30.5GWh, accounting for 25.8% of the total sales volume, down 2.2% from the previous month and up 82.3% year-on-year. From January to November, the cumulative sales volume of power and other batteries in China was 914.3GWh, a cumulative year-on-year increase of 42.8%. Among them, the cumulative sales of power batteries was 692.3GWh, accounting for 75.7% of the total sales, with a cumulative year-on-year increase of 27.1%; The cumulative sales volume of other batteries was 222.0GWh, accounting for 24.3% of the total sales volume, with a cumulative year-on-year increase of 132.5%.General Motors (GM): The unmanned business Cruise and GM Technical team will be merged, and the plan is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025. According to the priority of GM's capital allocation, GM will no longer fund Cruise's self-driving taxi development business.Australia's S&P/ASX200 index opened down 12.60 points, or 0.15%, at 8380.4 points on Wednesday, December 11th.
Henan: Promote the research on new crystalline silicon solar cell technologies such as heterojunction and perovskite/stack. The General Office of the People's Government of Henan Province issued an implementation plan for accelerating the integration of source, grid, load and storage in Henan Province, which proposed to tackle key technical problems. Promote the research on new crystalline silicon solar cell technologies such as heterojunction and perovskite/stack, and improve the efficiency of new energy power generation. Accelerate technological breakthroughs such as core chips of power equipment and coordinated control of source and network, and improve the adaptability of power grid to new energy sources. Carry out research on key technologies of digitalization and intelligence of energy system, improve the matching degree between supply and demand of power supply and load, and solve the intermittent and unstable problems of new energy power generation. Develop a new generation of high-performance energy storage technologies such as solid-state batteries and sodium ion batteries, improve the flexible adjustment ability of the system, and solve the problem of time-space mismatch between power generation and power consumption. Accelerate research on high-precision new energy and flexible load power forecasting technology, economic optimization scheduling technology, and promote the establishment of an integrated laboratory for source, network, load and storage.Market information: Honda will terminate its autonomous driving partnership with General Motors.
Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Korea: We will pay close attention to the financial and foreign exchange market trends and take adequate measures to curb excessive fluctuations in the foreign exchange market.Henan: Users with large electricity consumption are encouraged to configure efficient and flexible energy storage systems to realize peak load shedding and valley filling. The General Office of the People's Government of Henan Province issued a notice on the implementation plan of accelerating the integration of source, grid, load and storage in Henan Province, which proposed to actively develop diversified energy storage routes. Encourage the incremental distribution network to build long-term energy storage facilities to alleviate the long-term balance adjustment pressure caused by the mismatch between new energy generation characteristics and load characteristics. Encourage users with large electricity consumption to configure efficient and flexible energy storage systems, realize peak shaving and valley filling, and promote the time-space matching of power generation and electricity consumption. In areas with high reliability requirements for power supply such as transportation and communication, we will encourage the construction of new mobile or fixed energy storage facilities to improve emergency power supply support capabilities.