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Volkswagen founds mobility services company in Rwanda; to begin local assembly of Polo and Passat

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The Volkswagen brand has founded “Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda”, a company based in Rwanda. Going forward, the brand will be focusing in particular on new app-based mobility services such as car sharing and ride hailing in Rwanda. It is planned to initially build the Volkswagen Polo and Passat models. 16 million).

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Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

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In 2013, new geothermal geologic studies or exploration moved forward in places as diverse as American Samoa, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, the United States, and Yemen.

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UPS, Matternet to transport medical samples via drone in first FAA-sanctioned use of a drone for routine revenue flights in US

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Healthcare and life science logistics is a priority segment for UPS, and the company is building new relationships and technologies to deliver better patient care with streamlined logistics and supply chain. UPS partnered with GAVI and Zipline in 2016 to deliver blood products to remote locations in Rwanda.

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Volkswagen establishes new Sub-Saharan Africa region

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The Volkswagen brand currently has three operations in the region: the company has been building cars in South Africa since 1951. In addition, Volkswagen plans to launch an integrated mobility concept in Rwanda at the end of this year. Vehicle assembly began in Nigeria in 2015, with assembly in Kenya getting underway in December 2016.

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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While attending IEEE Smart Village’s Power Africa conference in 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda, she met GHE founder Paras Loomba. The IEEE volunteers installed an 11-kilowatt photovoltaic system on the roof of the school’s main building. “The story really touched my heart,” she says, and she made it her mission to assist the villagers.

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Not The End Of The World — Africa Moving Towards Decarbonisation

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Dr Hannah Ritchie of Our World in Data asserts that the rapidity of change will enable us to avoid the worst of the climate catastrophe that is currently building.

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How Zipline Designed Its Droid Delivery System

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We know the folks at Zipline pretty well, though, and they’ve certainly made creative engineering work for them, as we saw when we visited one of their “nests” in rural Rwanda. But if your main drone can stay high enough up that it avoids trees and buildings, then it can just float around up there.

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