Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 23, 2016
Francis Gatare, Director of the Rwanda Development Board, and Thomas Schäfer, CEO of Volkswagen Group South Africa, this week signed a memorandum of understanding for a new integrated mobility concept in Kigali in the presence of Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and Dr. Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen brand. initiative.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 19, 2018
The Volkswagen brand has founded “Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda”, a company based in Rwanda. Going forward, the brand will be focusing in particular on new app-based mobility services such as car sharing and ride hailing in Rwanda. Overall, Volkswagen and its partner companies will create up to 1,000 jobs in Rwanda.
Cars That Think
JULY 29, 2023
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 evaluates the production flow and checks on the performance of the equipment.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 3, 2017
In addition, Volkswagen plans to launch an integrated mobility concept in Rwanda at the end of this year. The concept provides for app-based mobility solutions such as car sharing and ride hailing. Schäfer began his career with Volkswagen AG in 2012 as Head of Group Production (Foreign plants).
Cars That Think
APRIL 17, 2024
We’ve been covering the drone delivery company Zipline in Spectrum for several years, and I do encourage listeners to check out our great onsite reporting from Rwanda in 2019 when we visited one of Zipline’s dispatch centers for delivering vital medical supplies into rural areas. Just go to spectrum.ieee.org/newsletters to subscribe.
Cars That Think
MARCH 15, 2024
We know the folks at Zipline pretty well, though, and they’ve certainly made creative engineering work for them, as we saw when we visited one of their “nests” in rural Rwanda. Early Droid concept sketches by designer Gregoire Vandenbussche featured legs that would fold up after delivery. The design journey was pretty fun.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 25, 2021
The field of automated precision agriculture is based on one concept—autonomous driving technologies that guide vehicles through GPS navigation. Since our priority was to develop a commercially viable product, we set up a business unit called. I will never forget the photographs of emaciated children.
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