India Is Passing China in Population. Can Its Economy Ever Do the Same?
India has a young, vast work force that is expanding as China’s ages and shrinks. But the country’s immense size also lays bare its enormous challenges.
Factories and Manufacturing
Biden Plans an Electric Vehicle Revolution. Now, the Hard Part.
The administration’s push to supercharge E.V. sales must now surmount resistance from manufacturers and consumers as well as likely legal challenges.
E.P.A Lab Helps Plan the Fastest Road to an EV Future
Government scientists have spent a year analyzing electric vehicles to help the E.P.A. design new tailpipe rules to trigger an electric car revolution.
How AI and DNA Are Unlocking the Mysteries of Global Supply Chains
Firms are turning to advanced technologies to help answer a surprisingly tricky question: Where do products really come from?
Biden Administration to Curb Toxic Pollutants From Chemical Plants
The rule would chiefly affect plants along the Gulf Coast, the Ohio River Valley and in West Virginia.
How Ukraine’s Battered Steel Industry Galvanized Its War Effort
The iron- and steel-producing factories of Ukraine’s rust belt have made body armor, helmets and armored plates for vehicles — and steelworkers risked their lives rolling out heavy machinery at the beginning of the war to help physically block the Russ…
Germany Wants More Chip Makers, but They Won’t Come Cheap
The global competition to attract semiconductor companies is expected to cost Berlin billions. Some wonder if it’s a good use of money.
Biden to Announce Nuclear-Powered Submarine Deal with Australia and Britain
The arrangement is part of a broader effort to counter China’s military development and assertive territorial claims across Asia.
Ukraine Needs Shells, and Arms Makers Want Money. Enter the E.U.
Ukraine is firing artillery shells faster than manufacturers can make them. Brussels is working on a plan to increase production by guaranteeing big advance purchases.
Leave Russia? A Year Later Many Companies Can’t, or Won’t.
Not all Western companies packed up and left Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. Some say Moscow has tied their hands, while others choose to stay put.