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California reported a record Q3 2025 ZEV sales share of 29.1% with 124,755 ZEVs purchased (2,468,158 cumulative). The California Energy Commission adopted EV charger reliability standards, approved NEVI projects for 64 fast chargers, and authorized three grants totaling more than $10 million to add 1,000+ Level 2 ports.

At the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA revealed the Vera Rubin NVL144 MGX open-architecture compute tray and previewed the NVIDIA Kyber rack generation, which is designed to connect 576 Rubin Ultra GPUs by 2027 and scale gigawatt AI factories. Multiple partners (50+ MGX partners and 20+ infrastructure vendors) are aligning on 800 VDC power delivery, liquid cooling and open MGX standards, and Foxconn is building a 40-megawatt, 800 VDC data center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

HKEX has launched Commodity Pricing and Analysis Limited (CPAL) in Dubai to act as a commodities pricing administrator for the global metals market and to support the London Metal Exchange’s sustainable metal premia work. The LME has published a discussion paper on proposed pricing methodology and CPAL will serve as the pricing administrator for those sustainable metal premia initiatives.