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Volvo delivers first heavy electric truck to Africa; Volvo FE Electric for refuse collection in Rabat, Morocco

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Volvo Trucks has delivered its first heavy electric truck to Rabat, Morocco. Volvo Trucks has the broadest line-up of electric trucks available for commercial transports. Morocco has ambitious climate goals, based on large investments in renewable energy.

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BMW Group sources sustainable cobalt worth around €100M from Morocco for fifth-gen batteries

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The two companies already signed a memorandum of understanding on the direct purchase of cobalt from Morocco in Marrakesh in January 2019. The contract between the BMW Group and the Managem Group is for a term of five years (2020 – 2025). Cobalt is an important raw material for electromobility.

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Even More Character To Experience The Outdoors Differently With The New Limited Edition Of The “My Ami Buggy” Series From Citroen

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Following the dazzling success in 2022 of the online sale of 50 “My Ami Buggy Ultra-Limited Series” in France, Citroen now offers a new special edition of 1,000 units which will be available in ten countries: France including the French overseas departments, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Morocco and Turkey.

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German minister Wissing starts international e-fuels dialogue

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At our conference in Munich, we initiated an international e-fuels dialogue, which we now want to continue so that we can make electricity-based fuels available for all modes of transport. Among others, the Czech Republic, Morocco and Japan were represented. In the morning, a political exchange took place at ministerial level.

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Nissan to test African demand for its e-Power hybrid vehicle – ET Auto

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“We launched it in Morocco with the Qashqai (last year) and in Egypt in February with the X-Trail and we’re going to go to Tunisia after that with the Qashqai,” Eldesouky said on the sidelines of Nissan’s Navara Africa expedition launch.

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BMW Group signs €540M supply contract with Ganfeng for lithium from mines in Australia

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For the upcoming fifth generation of battery cells, the company has also restructured its supply chains and will be sourcing both lithium and cobalt directly from 2020, making the raw materials available to the two battery cell manufacturers, CATL and Samsung SDI. This ensures full transparency over where raw materials come from.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. Most notably, Vietnam, South Africa, Mexico and Morocco led the rankings with a combined investment of $16 billion in 2018. thousand terawatt-hours in 2018, up from 6.4

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