Could your iPhone soon be made using solar power?

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Electronics manufacturer Foxconn to trial solar-powered factory at new Chinese facility

The world's largest producer of electronic devices, Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn, is to trial the deployment of thin film solar modules at its new factory in Zhenzhou City, China, it emerged this...

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