Funny you should mention badge removal: Chinese manufacturers will send out response teams to remove logos and badges from EVs that catch fire in mainland China.

Their "sandwich" batteries kinda suck. The interior cells don't get cooled properly and are prone to swelling. Individual cells can't be serviced, so if one cell goes bad, you need to replace the entire battery. Apparently replacement batteries are very, very expensive.

Turns out they're pretty useful for a lot of stuff. Read up on the history of Teflon etc.

Well China seemed interested for awhile so, why not?

Seems like someone in the white house is listening to all the media rhetoric about there being an AI competition between the US and China.

Labubus, obviously.

The real question is whether SEGA or Phil Collins's label will sue first.

Much of the DOGE commission's responsibility had been moved to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for the past several months. See "DOGE 'cut muscle, not fat'; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts" by Ashley Belanger

It needs to be profitable because it needs to generate enough economic activity directly (in ticket sales) or indirectly (by increasing taxable income) to produce/expand/maintain the system.

Investor momentum is shifting, and smart money is chasing startups like Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Helion (among others; however, they seem to be the front runners).

Renewables are and continue to be one of the most expensive power generation options on the market (I keep looking for signs that that has changed, and I see nothing on the market today that tells me otherwise). Even novel fission technologies such as SMRs MSRs threaten it from a cost angle (ignoring regulatory costs, which is why MSRs in particular seem to thrive in environments where regulations are non-existant or are "flexible"). Working fusion reactors would beat everything else on the market on a cost basis and could plug right into the grid, no problem. Fabricating the reactors may be expensive initially until economy of scale kicks in for individual parts, though honestly if you think companies for CFS and Helion haven't already addressed that in some fashion, I'd say you're nuts.