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Thailand’s EV industry growing rapidly

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According to the Electric Vehicle Association of Thailand, the number of companies that are part of Thailand’s electric vehicle industry has risen significantly since 2015, from 76 to 420 in 2019. million units in 2018. million units in 2018. Thailand is making great progress in the area of sustainable mobility.

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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. At daybreak, the cranks pull the ring back up to the surface to soak up sunlight and carbon dioxide.

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EIB awards €17M to QEV to advance zero emissions transport in developing countries

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In the Philippines, QEV recently equipped 10 new GET electric minibuses and converted numerous Jeepneys to use its fully-electric technology. By the end of 2019, QEV will supply a further 100 e-kits to GET in Manila as part of its global plans to produce around 10,000 e-kits per year, following the EIB investment.

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SpaceX brings Starlink service to Martinique & Guadeloupe

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In 2019, a public initiative was launched called the Martinique High-Speed Broadband (HSBB) project. HSBB aims to bring fibre-to-the-home technology to certain parts of the island. The Philippines has also announced Starlink’s arrival in the country. The Teslarati team would appreciate hearing from you.

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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Tanenbaum went on to serve as president of AT&T’s New Jersey Bell (now part of Verizon ) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He retired in 2019. Bob” Lawson Telecommunications engineer Senior member, 89; died 18 November Lawson worked for Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania (now part of AT&T ) in Pittsburgh for 35 years.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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Humans are tribal creatures by nature, as concluded in a 2019 study from the Association for Psychological Science. A look at the current political climate in countries such as the United States and the Philippines would show this. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2019. Sustainable/electric cars are the future!!

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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There were nearly 40 million such flights in 2019. Larsson Blind, who comes from a family of reindeer herders, spoke to IEEE Spectrum by video call from her home in the northernmost part of Sweden. In 1991, when Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, it created a haze of particles so dense that it temporarily cooled the planet by.

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