Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The pilot project, which will form part of Volkswagen’s operations in Rwanda, was officially announced today by Thomas Schäfer, CEO of Volkswagen Group South Africa and responsible for the Sub-Sahara Africa Region, in the presence of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Rwanda, Right Honourable Dr. Edouard Ngirente.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth. The project in Nepal was supported by funds Kiani raised through the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 6, 2023

In total, the International Energy Association reports , 6.6 With this increase in demand came an equally steep rise in the price of the metals used in the manufacturing of EV batteries – particularly lithium – which the IEA’s report says is a significant challenge to the EV industry. In 2021, more EVs than that were sold each week.

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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. In the industry referred to as a fixed-wing aircraft.

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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. Engineering test footage of Zipline’s Platform 2 docking system at their test site in Half Moon Bay in California.

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