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China continues to lead the global smart meter market through 1Q 2017 with upwards of 408 million meters installed, accounting for 68.3% In Asia Pacific, the smart meter market remains fragmented, with a subset of the region’s major countries engaging in large-scale projects and many others showing limited to no activity.

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in 2017, according to ABI Research. While penetration in the US and Western Europe will exceed 80% by 2017, developing regions such as Latin America and Eastern Europe will also see strong increases in telematics penetration in new vehicles, largely driven by mandates in Brazil and Russia. in 2012 to 60.1% Click to enlarge.

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The market for freight rail is large and growing across the world. million in 2018 versus 2017. This project further expands our addressable market to include electrification of the freight rail sector representing a major global opportunity for the reduction of greenhouse gases. compared with the five-year average.

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The slip in the July-September quarter leaves clean energy investment for the year so far running a modest 2% below that in the first nine months of 2017—leaving open the possibility that 2018 as a whole will end up matching last year’s total, particularly if a few more multibillion-dollar offshore wind deals are concluded before Christmas.

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Bcf/d, over the past five years (2017–21). In North Africa, LNG exports from Egypt increased by 0.7 Bcf/d) between 2017 and 2021 as a result of nuclear units coming back online. New LNG export capacity, primarily in the US, and rising global demand for natural gas drove continued growth in global LNG trade last year.

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Parkopedia, the world’s largest parking service provider, has been selected to be the new global provider of Audi’s premium in-car parking services as of June 2017. Markets covered include Europe, the Americas, Japan, Australasia, Middle East and Africa. Audi China has been using Parkopedia since January 2017.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

While the number of new clean power-generating plants completed stayed flat year-to-year, the volume of power derived from coal surged to a new high, according to Climatescope , an annual survey of 104 emerging markets conducted by research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). thousand in 2017. thousand terawatt-hours in 2018, up from 6.4

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Fossil fuel combustion, a major source of air pollution, contributed to more than one million deaths globally in 2017, more than 27% of all deaths from outdoor fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), according to a new report published by the Health Effects Institute (HEI). pollution and its health impacts.

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Particular opportunity for the Global South identified as net-zero fuel production costs expected to be up to 20% lower in Latin America and Africa. billion in 2017 to $1.6 Investment in green infrastructure key, as shipping will carry more than half of the world’s net-zero fuels by 2050, report estimates. London, UK. 17th May 2022.

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Cumulative sales of electric vehicles by the Renault Nissan Alliance rose to 481,151 units in the first half of 2017, reaffirming the Alliance’s role as the leading electric car manufacturer for the mass-market segment. Groupe Renault sold 1,879,288 million vehicles in the first half of 2017, which represents an increase of 10.4%

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Disruptive innovation is typically a Silicon Valley buzzword and not one commonly associated with discussions of gasoline markets. If a million low-speed electric vehicles displaced a million gasoline-powered midsize sedans from the market, about 15,000 barrels per day of gasoline demand could effectively be lost, Collins said.

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The company has been active in cobalt and copper resources exploration and development in Africa since 2006. Realizing the potential growth of the lithium market, POSCO began to develop new lithium extraction technologies in 2010.

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MAY 25, 2018

The new four-wheel light-duty commercial vehicle products for the European market are based on the present mini-truck product platform of Foton Motor, inherit the advantages of Foton Motor’s mini-trucks in terms of product quality, driving/riding comfort, and fuel-economy. Piaggio Porter.

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The IEA June 2022 Oil Market Report (OMR) forecasts world oil demand to reach 101.6 Nevertheless, product markets are expected to remain tight, with a particular concern for diesel and kerosene supplies. mb below the 2017-2021 average. mb/d in 2023, surpassing pre-pandemic levels. mb/d in 2022 to 2.2 mb/d and 1.9 bbl on 13 June.

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MARCH 28, 2019

This year’s achievements underline SEAT’s potential to make use of growth opportunities and open new markets. to stand at €223 million (2017: 116) and turnover amounted to €9.991 billion—4.6% higher than the 2017 result (9.552). more than in 2017), made SEAT the fastest growing brand in Europe last year.

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Global oil demand grew by 1.4%, slightly lower than in 2017 (+1.6%) in a context of increasing oil prices. recorded in 2013-2017. Asia kept leading global refining capacity growth with 77% of the 1 Mb/d increase vs 2017. In Africa a minor cut reduced capacity by around 0.3

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This investment will contribute to the development of a competitive manufacturing base for producing, launching and marketing Peugeot 208, 2008 and 301 models, fitted with latest-generation engines. The first vehicles will roll off the production line at the Tehran plant in the second half of 2017. million vehicles in 2011.

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The result will be renewables eating up more and more of the existing market for coal, gas and nuclear. —Seb Henbest, head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for BNEF and lead author of NEO 2018. The latest BP Annual Energy Outlook found that in 2017, renewables grew strongly in 2017, with wind and solar leading the way.

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Nissan and Daimler broke ground on the US$1-billion Aguascalientes, Mexico, plant in 2015, which will produce next-generation premium compact vehicles for Infiniti as of 2017 and for Mercedes-Benz starting in 2018. Construction will be completed in 2017, followed by preparation for pilot production of Infiniti vehicles.

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GAC Motor unveiled its first pure electric vehicle, the GE3, at the 2017 North America International Auto Show this January, and released the new plug-in hybrid sedan GA3S PHEV and plug-in hybrid SUV GS4 PHEV at Auto Shanghai 2017 in April. The company aims to enter the US no later than 2019 to further its global footprint.

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Toyota and Suzuki have been considering the concrete details of such collaboration since having concluded a memorandum of understanding toward business partnership in February 2017. Suzuki will also supply India-produced vehicles (Baleno, Vitara Brezza, Ciaz, Ertiga) to Toyota, targeting the African market. Earlier post.).

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The company said that Hackett, together with Chairman Bill Ford, will focus on three priorities: Sharpening operational execution across the global business to further enhance quality and go-to-market strategy; product launch, while decisively addressing underperforming parts of the business. These three appointments are effective 1 June.

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LanzaTech’s first commercial facility will be online at the end of 2017 in China, producing fuel-grade ethanol from captured steelmaking off-gas. South Africa has the potential to produce more than 400,000 tonnes of ethanol per year from existing ferroalloy and titania producers. —Joseph Zinyana of Swayana.

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From 2013 to 2017, SEAT invested more than €3.3 XMOBA and CUPRA join SEAT Metropolis:Lab Barcelona, SEAT’s wholly owned digital-lab inaugurated in 2017, which is a part of the Volkswagen Group’s worldwide network of IT-Labs. billion (US$4.1 The company operates in more than 80 countries, but only 15% of sales are made outside Europe.

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As per the company, this is the largest amount that is raised by an electric mobility company in all of Sub-Saharan Africa. The funding raised by the company will be used to scale its operations in electric motorcycle and bus manufacturing in Africa. Opibus founded in 2017 develops, designs, and manufactures electric vehicles.

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Guarani is one of the leading companies in the Brazilian sugar and ethanol market, ranked third among the largest sugar producers in Brazil. The target for the partnerships and divestments program in the period 2017-2018 will automatically be increased by the respective amounts, to the sum of US$21 billion.

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trillion in 2018, a level similar to 2017. Energy investments now face unprecedented uncertainties, with shifts in markets, policies and technologies. In power generation and the upstream oil and gas sector, the industry is bringing capacity to market more than 20% faster than at the beginning of the decade.

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The plan is to offer a portfolio of high-tech, affordable vehicles for the Indian market by introducing “a range of products from B SUV to C SUV as well as compact cars”, he added. “We According to him, in the long term, the JV aspires to export vehicles to key right-hand drive markets such as Australia and South Africa.

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At the company’s Capital Markets Day 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sasol management said that the company will no longer pursue its proposed ) project in the US ( earlier post ) and furthermore will not invest in additional greenfields gas-to-liquids (GTL) projects. —Stephen Cornell.

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An estimated 84% of global transportation-attributable deaths occurred in G20 countries, and 70% occurred in the four largest vehicle markets in 2015: China, India, the European Union, and the United States. million premature deaths annually from heart and lung diseases and diabetes, according to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 2017.

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This investment will contribute to facilitate the development of a competitive manufacturing base for producing, launching and marketing Peugeot 208, 2008 and 301 models, fitted with latest-generation engines. The first vehicles will roll off the production line at the Tehran plant in the second half of 2017. million vehicles in 2011.

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The IEEE member from Kigali, Rwanda, participated in installing portable sinks in nearby rural markets to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provided clean water and sanitation services to people displaced by the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in 2021. She also got involved in organizing conferences in Africa.

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With an increasing amount of Li-ion battery raw material refining and processing centred in China, and it being front-and-center of Li-ion demand growth, Chinese Li-ion value chain participants have turned to Australia, Africa and South America to secure the feedstock necessary for their downstream requirements. Either way, more than 1.6

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In 2017, Ford announced it would invest $1 billion over five years in Argo AI—an artificial intelligence software startup founded by former Google and Uber leaders—to develop an SAE Level 4 virtual driver system for the automaker’s autonomous vehicle coming in 2021, and for potential license to other companies. Earlier post.).

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The transport sector is not on track towards achieving sustainable mobility, according to the newly published Global Mobility Report 2017 (GMR). —GMR 2017. Transitioning to sustainable mobility would allow Africa to become food self-sufficient and create a regional food market worth $1 trillion by 2030. Efficiency.

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It has accelerated the time-to-market for vehicle launches and has been an obvious strategic advantage for each partner. Since then, the combined portfolio shared between the partners has more than quadrupled to 13 projects in Europe, Asia and the Americas. We look forward to its continued growth, with more joint projects in the future.

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EIA’s annual long-term assessment of world energy markets includes a Reference case and four core side cases, which use different assumptions for the projections in each case. EIA projects most of this growth will come from regions where the consumption of energy is driven by strong economic growth, particularly in non-OECD Asia.

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