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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

Cars That Think

They put together documentation on how the minigrid worked, created a budget, and applied for a grant from the IEEE Foundation. “I The grant provided the seed money to launch their startup that year: Green Village Electricity Projects of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The project received support from Power Africa and USAID.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

Cars That Think

She developed the geeRemit app to let people in the United States send money to people in sub-Saharan Africa. She got an opportunity to do so in 2012, when she took the job of CTO in IBM’s Central, East, and West Africa regional office, in Nairobi, Kenya. The app would then suggest the person set aside money.

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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

Baua Electric

At 23 locations across 12 countries, I talked with workers, stewards and experts, who taught me about the local history and personality of each place. The hot springs I visited in Nevada are the only purely wild hot springs in the book — the only bathing places without someone granting admission or monitoring the flow of visitors.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. Play (RED) board rocks The group harnesses the power of Fortune 500 brand names to fight disease in Africa.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

Renewables increase from 13% of the mix today to 18% in 2035; the growth in renewables is underpinned by subsidies that rise from $64 billion in 2010 to $250 billion in 2035, support that in some cases cannot be taken for granted in an age of increasing fiscal austerity. World PLDV oil demand in the New Policies Scenario.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

“ I don’t think we can sweep aside the fact that our peer group of nations like China, Indonesia, Brazil and South Africa have clearly put down voluntary, unilateral, non-legally binding and quantitative targets ,” Ramesh told the Hindustan Times. “It has implications for us. We can’t run away from it.”

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

Charged EVs

We have Chile and Brazil, and even a few customers in Africa. I personally had an affair with e-mobility in 2010. Since then, we’ve been able to acquire customers all across Europe, but also in Australia, Southeast Asia, the US and Canada, South America. It’s really universally applicable because it is purely software.