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Kenya’s Government To Acquire 1,000 Electric Vehicles Per Year For Staff

August 24, 2024 admin africa, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Kenya

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:50:11 +0000

In a meeting held yesterday with National Government Administration Officers, Kenya’s President William Ruto said the Officers are central to the governance and development of Kenya. He also said that as a key pillar of “national stability and in the implementation of development projects across the country,” to help them … [continued]

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No Special Treatment When It Comes To ICE Ban, Ethiopia Tells Diplomats — They Can Only Buy EVs, Just Like Everybody Else!

August 24, 2024 admin africa, car bans, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ethiopia, ev mandates, gas car bans, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:12:34 +0000

Diplomats get a lot of special privileges all over the world, which must be nice, but there are no special privileges when it comes to allowing imports of new ICE vehicles in Ethiopia, it seems. When Ethiopia implemented an immediate ban on new internal combustion engine vehicle imports earlier this … [continued]

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Kabisa & Societe Petroliere Partner to Expand EV Charging Infrastructure Across Rwanda

August 23, 2024 admin africa, clean transport, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, rwanda

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:51:08 +0000

Rwanda is one of the few countries on the African continent that has very progressive policies for electric vehicles. These policies include some pretty cool incentives for EVs, such as the following. Fiscal Incentives: Electricity tariffs for charging stations to be capped at the industrial tariff. This means that charge … [continued]

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The Energy Transition is Slowed by Growth in Consumption

August 23, 2024 admin clean power, clean transport, climate change, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, green economy, grid, international energy agency (iea), research, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:19:45 +0000

Imagine you are a runner in a 400-metre race. You speed around the final bend only to see the officials running away down the track with the finishing tape. You are a strong runner and will catch them, eventually, but not in a fast time. This is the situation of … [continued]

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Lithium & Politics Clash In Serbia

August 23, 2024 admin batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, EU, Europe, European Union, ev batteries, green economy, lithium, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, rio tinto, Serbia

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:13:13 +0000

Lithium extraction is a vital component of creating an emissions free world but political complications could derail those efforts.

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Russian General Gets A Tesla Cybertruck & Puts Machine Gun On It

August 23, 2024 admin clean transport, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Russia, tesla, tesla cybertruck

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 21:22:11 +0000

There are so many avenues we could go down with this, and I don’t know as I start writing this article where I’m going to go (which is not normal for me). It’s a weird story, and one with many side elements. First of all, the facts: Chechnya President and … [continued]

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Owl-Inspired “Bionic” Fan For EVs Reduces Fan Noise 50% While Improving Efficiency 10%

August 23, 2024 admin clean transport, Electric vehicles, mahle

Credit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:23:08 +0000

MAHLE, a century-old automotive supplier, has just released information about a new high-performance “bionic” fan for EVs that it claims will effectively reduce the sound output by half, while also being 10% lighter and 10% more efficient than a conventional fan. For those of us who grew up watching The … [continued]

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Tesla Gets Big Break In Reduced Chinese EV Tariffs In EU — Full Details On New Tariffs

August 23, 2024 admin china tariffs, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, EU, eu tariffs, European Union, policy & politics, tariffs, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:03:07 +0000

If you’re just learning about this story, that title might confuse you, so let me catch you up in this first paragraph. The European Union concluded that electric cars produced in China have received too many government subsidies that make them artificially cheap and overly competitive with domestically produced electric … [continued]

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On The Frontline of Smart Charging

August 23, 2024 admin argonne national laboratory, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev charging, ev charging stations, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:00:41 +0000

Jason Harper’s innovations in charge management technology improve electric vehicle operation New system utilizes true smart charging to reduce infrastructure costs and optimize driver needs Electric vehicles (EVs) are here to stay, and aided by smart charging management technology developed by Argonne electrical engineer Jason Harper, they won’t waste any … [continued]

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What Will The End Of Fossil Fuels Be Like?

August 23, 2024 admin clean transport, economic research, economics, Fossil Fuels

Credit to Author: George Harvey| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:05:46 +0000

I recently came across a somewhat old spreadsheet from the U.S. Department of Energy, “Public Retail Gasoline Stations by State and Year,” which covered data from 1996 to 2012 (xlsx file found HERE). It was clear that the numbers in it were not precisely accurate, but there was something very … [continued]

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