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India directs Coal India to invest in EVs & charging pods

Electric Vehicles India

Read the complete article about India directs Coal India. . ” India imports coal mainly from Indonesia, Australia and South Africa. ” India imports coal mainly from Indonesia, Australia and South Africa. The Ministry of Coal has finalised an agenda document for the year 2021-22.

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The War in Ukraine Disrupts Trade in Both Food and Fuel

Cars That Think

Russia ranks second in the extraction of both crude oil (behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia) and natural gas (behind the United States and ahead of Iran), and it is the sixth-largest producer of coal (behind Australia and ahead of South Africa).

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

Cars That Think

Sometimes people talk about AI for climate change, but if you really do the analysis of climate change, isn’t a lot of AI being used to make the oil and gas industries more efficient? One of our research fellows, Raesetje Sefala , is based in South Africa and grew up in a township. Sefala] is going to write an article for.

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Development of autonomous cars is steadily progressing with AI as an accelerator, says Sven Lanwer, XC expert from Bosch – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Some really like driving themselves, feeling the gas pedal and the dynamics and everything. You have said that it’s not very cheap to implement ADAS, especially in countries like India or developing countries like Brazil or South Africa. Then it’s a different topic. And I think this is a very individual thing.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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