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bp and Uber partner to drive delivery growth globally

Green Car Congress

The new partnership covers retail sites in Australia, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa and the west coast of US. As part of the agreement, Uber Eats and bp will work to introduce delivery options onto bp’s own app, BPme—initially planned to be available in the UK, US and Australia by the end of 2023—powered by Uber Direct.

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

Cars That Think

Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national grid or to a local source of electricity, and the ability to read and write—but such definitions do not make it possible to get a truly informed verdict. This means that in 2019 about 770 million people had no electricity, three-quarters of them in Africa.

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EV Charging: A Look at the International Landscape

EV Connect

The demand for EVs certainly exists, but that is only one part of the equation. South Africa, the European Union and the U.S. According to the Brisbane Times , EV sales tripled in 2019 from 2,216 to 6,718, and another 3,226 EVs were sold in the first half of 2020 — again despite an overall drop in vehicle sales.

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Falling Domestic Fares and an A.I. Arms Race: What Travelers Can Expect in 2024

Baua Electric

billion in 2019, according to the International Air Transport Association. For example, it could improve automatic rebooking onto new flights when customers miss connections or weather snarls runways. started overnight service between Paris and Aurillac , in south-central France, the same month. On the ground, A.I. Finally, A.I.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

The life cycle to which we refer has two parts: The vehicle cycle begins with mining the raw materials, refining them, turning them into components, and assembling them. In 2019, 63 percent of global electricity was produced from fossil-fuel sources, the exact nature of which varies substantially among regions.