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Starlink gets contract with US Air Force for Europe and Africa airlift operations 

Teslarati

The US Air Force will work with SpaceX’s Starlink to support airlift operations in Europe and Africa. The United States Armed Forces air service branch expects Starlink to provide throughput capabilities of up to 500 Mbps download speed and low latency connectivity. Starlink aces 80 mph connectivity test in Ukraine.

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Cepsa to invest €3B in Andalusia to build the largest green hydrogen hub in Europe; additional €2B for renewable power

Green Car Congress

The company will build two plants with a total capacity of 2 GW to produce green hydrogen. Andalusia has world-class port infrastructure, connected to the main ports of Europe and the world. The ports of Algeciras and Huelva are two key locations on the export and maritime traffic routes both to northern Europe and to Asia and Africa.

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Ford Sustainability Report details pilot program in South Africa to deliver health care, education

Green Car Congress

A new Ford Motor Company pilot program aims to enhance mobility health services in rural areas of South Africa and Nigeria. The services will be accessed using enhanced mobility and connectivity technologies from Ford vehicles. Ford has unveiled a number of new technologies to help people stay better connected behind the wheel.

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Building Better Qubits

Cars That Think

While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” When I go back to my hometown, many of our clients still have the furniture that I helped build for them.”

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South Africa’s Rubicon Group Wants to Help Drive The Transition To The Green Economy

CleanTechnica EVs

South Africa’s Rubicon Group enables transformative sustainable and industrial technologies across the energy and manufacturing sectors in Africa and other emerging markets.

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Veolia launches largest project to produce bio-methanol from pulp mill waste

Green Car Congress

As part of this cooperation, Veolia will build a crude methanol refinery in connection with Metsä Fibre’s Äänekoski bioproduct mill. Since then, Veolia has more than 450 installations worldwide for mills in Brazil, Indonesia, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa and several European countries.

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Hitachi, ABB complete fully electric 244 ton electric prototype

Baua Electric

A collaboration between Hitachi Construction Machinery and ABB Traction to build a massive, fully electric dump truck for extreme duty operations has reached a key stage with the completion of their first prototype. It wasn’t about the work that needed to get done, in a sense – it was about managing the energy needed to do the work.