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Asian Development Bank providing $300M towards replacing 100K gasoline trikes with E-Trikes in the Philippines; $300M for major road upgrades in Chhattisgarh, India

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $300 million towards a project that will replace 100,000 gasoline-burning tricycles in the Philippines with electric tricycles, or E-Trikes. Without intervention, the Philippines is on a course to almost quadruple CO 2 emissions in less than 25 years, the ADB said.

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Nissan, Frost & Sullivan study finds 37% of Southeast Asian consumers open to buying EV

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Customers in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia emerged as the most enthusiastic about electric cars. Nissan is also exploring launch in Indonesia and Philippines. The study was conducted by Frost & Sullivan in January 2018 in six countries: Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

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Gin and Jellyfish? You Might Be at a Bar in Singapore.

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Yes, it’s in the lobby of Parkview Square , a grand Art Deco-style office building that houses several embassies, but calling it a lobby bar feels a bit like calling the Beatles a rock ’n’ roll band or Georges Seurat a landscape painter. The Gilded Age-inspired space also features a room with an epic Champagne collection.

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Saudis Expand Price War Downstream

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Along with acquiring a controlling stake in Korea’s S-Oil, the desert kingdom is commissioning a new refinery in Jizan which would have a capacity of around 400,000 barrels per day when it begins operations in 2017. per barrel while that of Reliance was $8.70 per barrel in first quarter of 2015).

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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Keith is also the founder of Carbon Engineering, a Canadian firm building a sprawling facility in West Texas that will pull carbon dioxide directly from the air.). That idea didn’t advance, but in 2017, Keith became faculty director of Harvard’s. But at present, there is no United Nations agency to build a global consensus or U.S.

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DOE fuel cell market report shows continued growth, with sales surpassing $1.3B worldwide in 2013

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Many automakers anticipate commercialization by 2017. Deployments and orders for fuel cells for telecommunications backup expanded into the Middle East, China, the Philippines, and other international markets. million in grants to build new and upgrade existing hydrogen fueling stations around the state. Earlier post.).

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