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Last Mile EV Delivery In The Philippines Boosted By Battery Swapping Partnership

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Electric 2-wheelers have been part of the last-mile transportation in the Philippines since 2006 when the first electric bicycles and scooters came in from China. These vehicles were however, low mileage, and high maintenance using heavy lead acid batteries for power.

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Asian Development Bank providing $300M towards replacing 100K gasoline trikes with E-Trikes in the Philippines; $300M for major road upgrades in Chhattisgarh, India

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $300 million towards a project that will replace 100,000 gasoline-burning tricycles in the Philippines with electric tricycles, or E-Trikes. Without intervention, the Philippines is on a course to almost quadruple CO 2 emissions in less than 25 years, the ADB said.

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UPS Adopts Plan to Cut Its Airline Carbon Emissions An Additional 20% by 2020; Biofuels Part of the Plan

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UPS Airlines CO 2 emissions per Available Ton Mile, historical and targeted. CO 2 lbs/ATM (Available Ton Mile), for a cumulative reduction of 42% since 1990. UPS Airlines aviation gallons burned per 100 Available Ton Miles, historical and targeted. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. In 2008, Scope 1 and 2 emissions were 13.2

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NOAA: Global Combined Land and Ocean Surface Temperature Was Second Warmest for September

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Based on records going back to 1880, the monthly National Climatic Data Center analysis is part of the suite of climate services NOAA provides. million square miles in September—the third lowest for any September since records began in 1979. The storm struck the Philippines on 26 September, leaving 80% of Manila submerged.

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France’s IFPEN studying industrial potential of onshore sources of natural hydrogen

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Some 64,000 km (40,000 miles) of ridges demarcate plate boundaries on the ocean floor. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which separates the Eurasian and African plates from the American plates, is the longest of these and stretches 7,000 km (4,300 miles). These areas contain the oldest parts of the continents, cratons. 15, EGU2013-5553.

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