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Hyundai & Grab Want To Accelerate EV Adoption In Southeast Asia

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Hyundai and Grab, which provides taxis and rental cars in markets in Southeast Asia, are in the mood to electrify. Down in Southeast Asia, the duo are partnering to offer more electric cars as rentals. The two companies plan to also push battery-as-a-service and EV financing forward. Although operational costs of […].

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BNEF: cost of new renewables rises as inflation starts to bite

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The cost of new-build onshore wind has risen 7% year on year, and fixed-axis solar has jumped 14%, according to the latest analysis by research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). The global benchmark levelized cost of electricity, or LCOE, has retreated to where it was in 2019. More recently, labor costs started to rise.

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Hyundai Motor Group deepens partnership with Grab to accelerate EV adoption in Southeast Asia

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are enhancing their ongoing strategic partnership in mobility services to focus on accelerating EV adoption in Southeast Asia. Hence, the enhanced partnership will focus on addressing some of these barriers by piloting new EV business models such as leasing EVs with a battery-as-a-service model or car-as-a-service model, and EV financing.

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Hyundai Motor Group Deepens Partnership with Grab to Accelerate EV Adoption in Southeast Asia

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The hidden costs of using an electric bike

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First embraced across Asia before rolling their way across Europe for the last decade, e-bikes are now surging in popularity in North America. E-bikes can really impact your wallet You might not have known this going in, but you’d be well advised to take a second look at your finances if you’re considering getting an electric bike.

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Report Finds That Urgent Changes in Transport Financing Required to Enable More Sustainable Transportation Globally

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A key change will need to take place in how the costs of transport are internalized, as the wider costs to society arising from road accidents, poor health, social impacts and environmental degradation, often described as the ‘external' costs, are currently excluded from the price that transport users confront.

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BNEF: net-zero road transport by 2050 still possible, but big push needed

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Most of this is from electric two- and three-wheelers in Asia, but rising passenger EV sales push this to 2.5 Concessional finance has been a key enabler for the development of renewable power generation in emerging economies and could play a similar role in the EV sector. That’s up from 16 million at the end of 2021.