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NASA’s upcoming space telescope and emerging electric vehicle technologies are converging to potentially revolutionize our understanding of celestial bodies and sustainable energy infrastructure. — ARC
The High Ground
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on track to launch as early as next month. The telescope will carry the first space-bound “active” coronagraph, an instrument that can help detect Jupiter-like planets with unprecedented precision.
The EV Race
Grab’s investment in Vietnam’s EBOOST aims to deploy 6,000 EV charging ports by early 2028, as reported by TNGlobal. Meanwhile, BYD has announced five-minute charging batteries, surpassing Tesla’s capabilities, according to Moomoo.
What follows is purely a thought experiment.
Imagine a scenario where Grab’s investment in Vietnam’s EBOOST leads to an unprecedented surge in Southeast Asia’s electric vehicle adoption, fueled by the exponential growth of ride-hailing services in countries like Indonesia and Thailand. By 2028, Grab becomes the largest EV fleet operator in the region, using its extensive network to accelerate the deployment of charging infrastructure through EBOOST. As a result, Vietnam emerges as an unlikely hub for global battery research and development, attracting top talent from China’s BYD and Tesla to develop custom batteries optimized for Southeast Asian climate conditions. This shift in innovation focus creates an unexpected bottleneck in lithium mining capacity worldwide, causing a 30% spike in prices and forcing the European Union to reevaluate its ambitious EV adoption targets.