Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

The Keeling Curve Prize (KCP) has selected 10 winners for 2019, among them Opus 12 (Berkeley, California) which is developing a device that recycles CO? Each of the 10 2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners will receive $25,000 in prize money. Each of the 10 2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners will receive $25,000 in prize money.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2019

The first Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle from the EQ brand made its US premiere at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. By market launch, 200 prototypes and pre-production vehicles of the EQC will have covered several million miles across four continents (Europe, North America, Asia and Africa). Production.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

In 2019, 1.7 Cities in Asia, Africa, and Eastern and Central Europe saw the greatest health im­pacts from PM 2.5 concentrations in the five most populous cities in each region in 2019. In 2019, 86% of the cities included in this report exceeded the WHO’s 10 µg/m 3 guideline for annual NO 2 exposure, impacting about 2.6

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JULY 6, 2012

between 2012 and 2019, reaching 3.2 million vehicles sold in 2019, according to a new forecast by Pike Research. million LD NGVs on the road by 2019. There is very little demand for NGVs outside of Egypt in Africa. This level of sales results in a cumulative total of 25.4 million vehicles out of 2.15

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Hyundai Motor Company and H 2 Energy set up its joint venture (JV), Hyundai Hydrogen Mobility, in April 2019. The IToY Truck Innovation Award is determined by a jury of 25 commercial vehicle editors and senior journalists that represent major trucking magazines from Europe and South Africa. Earlier post.)

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Morocco wants to be a leader in the automotive industry in Africa. of the kingdom’s exports in 2019. Morocco’s EV scene is making some good progress. The Moroccan automotive industry represented 27.6%

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2020

million metric tonnes (Mt) of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2019, up 21% in just five years, according to the UN’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020. of 2019’s e-waste was collected and recycled. According to the report, Asia generated the greatest volume of e-waste in 2019—some 24.9 A record 53.6 Only 17.4%

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MAY 22, 2023

Sinopec-built atmospheric tower on its way to Dagote in 2019. There is no single column which can process 650,000 barrels per day anywhere else. —Sanjay Gupta, CEO China’s Sinopec built the atmospheric tower—the world’s largest—for Dagote. The refinery alone has a 435MW power plant.

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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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2020

In spring 2020, the Volkswagen Tiguan broke the production barrier of six million units, with 910,926 units manufactured in 2019 alone. In October 2019, Volkswagen added a plug-in hybrid drivetrain for the Chinese model. As far back as 2016, Volkswagen unveiled a Tiguan PHEV concept, based on the second-generation Tiguan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2014

The value of the global three-wheeler market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13% during 2014-19, according to a recently published report by TechSci Research, “Global Three Wheeler Market Forecast and Opportunities, 2019”. cannot effectively penetrate.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2019

There are more than 300 coal projects potentially commencing operations between 2019 and 2022. Of the total, 57 are located in Australia, 55 in India, 54 in China, 30 in South Africa, 18 each in Canada and Indonesia and 15 in the US. Of these, 92 are currently under construction, with the remainder under various stages of development.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

By market launch, 200 prototypes and pre-production vehicles of the EQC will have absolved tests covering several million kilometers across four continents (Europe, North America, Asia and Africa). Series production of the EQC will start in 2019 at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen. In addition to the demanding standard test program.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The burning of solid biofuels, such as wood for indoor heating and cooking, is another major source of PM 2.5 , accounting for an additional 740,000 deaths, especially across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. is the sixth highest risk factor for deaths globally, accounting for nearly four million deaths in 2019 alone.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Occidental has been working with Carbon Engineering on direct air capture (DAC) deployment since 2019. Occidental is an international energy company with assets primarily in the United States, the Middle East and North Africa. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

APRIL 23, 2024

By: HT Auto Desk | Updated on: 23 Apr 2024, 12:47 PM Honda Amaze had earlier returned with four-star rating at the Global NCAP in 2019. Honda Amaze scored 2-star rating for adult protection and zero star for child protection in the latest test. --> Honda Amaze had earlier returned with four-star rating at the Global NCAP in 2019.Honda

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After growing by more than 2% in 2019, global gas use is set to fall by around 4% in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces energy consumption across the global economies. LNG imports reached 482 billion cubic meters in 2019, up 13% from 2018, and while this figure is expected to fall by around 4.2%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

In addition to North America, we are currently looking at the freight train market in Europe, Australia, Brazil and South Africa—all of which are ideally suited for the transformation of their current diesel stock. —Anil Srivastava, CEO, Leclanché.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2022

Particular opportunity for the Global South identified as net-zero fuel production costs expected to be up to 20% lower in Latin America and Africa. billion in 2019. Investment in green infrastructure key, as shipping will carry more than half of the world’s net-zero fuels by 2050, report estimates. London, UK. Vancouver, Canada.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Global electrification has risen steadily since World War II, reaching 73 percent in 2000 and 90 percent in 2019 (the pandemic year of 2020 was the. This means that in 2019 about 770 million people had no electricity, three-quarters of them in Africa. Only North Africa has consumption rates of the same order of magnitude.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

The new partnership covers retail sites in Australia, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa and the west coast of US. Since 2019, bp has seen a three-fold increase in users of the BPme app, with 16 million active loyalty users worldwide. bp currently offers delivery in 10 markets with a variety of partners.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The amount of CO 2 generated per vehicle will be reduced by another 40% from 2019 levels by 2025 and 80% by 2030. The plants will take advantage of the best options at each location—from solar energy in Oxford, Mexico and China, to biogas in South Africa, to wind power in Leipzig. —Milan Nedeljkovi?.

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APRIL 18, 2020

The new order follows that made by Grimaldi in 2019 for nine very similar vessels with the same scope of supply, and adds to recent orders MAN Energy Solutions has won in the competitive Baltic market. —will build the engines in Korea, while Nanjing Jinling shipyard in China will construct the vessels.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

And Volvo shifted from selling mostly diesels in Europe in 2019 to selling 70% hybrids and EVs in that market today. A 2016 report found that Africa got much dirtier diesel fuel than Europe, compounding the environmental impact of burning it. 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser Europe was itself a stronghold for diesels. In the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2021

From January to December airlines operated 49% fewer flights in 2020 compared to 2019—down from 33.2 million flights in 2019, while international flights suffered an even more precipitous drop as they were 68% below the 11.7 This marks an extraordinary 86% reduction in flights. million flights to just 16.8

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

More than three-quarters (76%) of the world’s population now live in urban areas, according to the European Commission’s Joint Research Center’s (JRC’s) new Atlas of the Human Planet 2019. Some, like those in Asia, Africa and Latin America, are seeing particularly fast urbanization.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2019

Asia-Pacific (APAC) and EMEA will be the dominant markets for battery energy storage systems over the forecast period 2019-2023. Middle East and Africa are small markets with demand for storage expected to increase once renewable power generation gains significant traction in the market.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The DLR-Concept car SLRV at the Composites Europe 2019. —Thorsten Habeck, Head of Business Management Fiber Bonding – Europe, Middle East & Africa at BASF. High-performance light-weight component: The natural composite material based on natural fiber was produced by using BASF’s Acrodur binder.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

Ifeanyi Orajaka A recognized leader in Africa Both Orajaka and GVE have received accolades. In 2018 he was in the inaugural cohort of the Obama Foundation ’s Leaders Africa program. The London Stock Exchange identified GVE as one of the fastest-growing private companies in Africa in 2019. Established by former U.S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The analysis also indicated that emissions varied by region: New hydropower facilities in Western Europe were estimated to have near-zero climate impacts, whereas those in Western Africa yielded climate impacts greater than coal and natural gas plants over all timescales. —Ocko and Hamburg (2019). Ocko and Steven P. 9b05083.

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Teslarati

MAY 7, 2023

As per the Community Note, which has since disappeared from the post, the post was reportedly “misleading” because Musk “was born into an extremely wealthy family in South Africa.” ” In posts on Twitter in December 2019, however, Musk noted that his father “didn’t own an emerald mine.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

A containerized 600 kWh marine battery system will be installed in a trial on board the Maersk Cape Town in December 2019 to improve vessel performance and reliability while reducing CO 2 emissions. The vessel is a Singapore-flagged 249-meter long container ship built in 2011 which sails between West Africa and East Asia.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

In rural areas in southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, a solar farm can give an agrarian community access to electricity that historically never had access to energy, McGee said. —Julius McGee. Alternatively, in poorer nations, renewable sources of electricity have been used to alleviate energy poverty. —Julius McGee.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2019

This is particularly true given China’s outsized importance as the global ‘oil consumer of last resort,’ as well as the fact that if low-speed electric vehicle manufacturing capacity scales up in China, manufacturers are likely to begin targeting export markets in Africa, India and Southeast Asia.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

This includes supplying ‘e-kits’ to enable the electrification of public transport vehicles—both in the production of new models and the conversion of those already in service—in Asia, Latin America and Africa. In Manila alone, Jeepney’s produce 3,654 tons of CO 2 per day.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2019

A study by a team of researchers from Germany and South Africa forsees the gradual replacement of lead-acid SLI (starter, lighting and ignition) batteries with Li-ion batteries over the next couple of years. —Ferg et al. Schuldt, J. 2019.03.063.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The Mercedes-Benz Vision EQS concept car provided pointers to the progressive design of the coming EQS in September 2019. The electric vehicles also use pioneering cross-sectoral technologies from Mercedes-Benz such as, for example, the MBUX (Mercedes-Benz User Experience) control and display system or the driving assistance systems.

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