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Kofa & TAILG Partner To Deploy 200,000 Electric Motorcycles & 5,000 Battery Swap Stations In Africa by 2030

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Kofa, a Ghanaian company focusing on battery swap networks, and TAILG are jointly developing a battery swap-enabled electric motorcycle called Jidi. Kofa says the first orders of the Jidi are expected to arrive in Ghana at the end of 2023.

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Piedmont Lithium selects Tennessee for second lithium hydroxide project; 30,000 metric tons per year

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This process eliminates the acid-leaching of spodumene and the production sodium sulfate waste, which will make Tennessee Lithium one of the world’s most sustainable lithium hydroxide operations, according to the company. 2024: Ghana Project—spodumene concentrate; preliminary feasibility study (PFS) Q3 2022.

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Persistent Expands Its Electric Mobility Venture Building To West Africa, Partners With SolarTaxi

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Ghanaian company SolarTaxi, which was started by Jorge Appiah in 2018, has been making good progress in the electric mobility sector. SolarTaxi’s vision is to become the leading e-mobility product and services company in West Africa. SolarTaxi […].

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LG Chem investing $75M in Piedmont Lithium; 200,000mt spodumene concentrate offtake agreement

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Piedmont has also agreed to provide LG Chem priority negotiation rights for 10,000 metric tons per year of lithium hydroxide produced by the Company at either of its proposed facilities in Tennessee or North Carolina. NAL is a project of Sayona Québec, a joint venture between Piedmont and Sayona Mining Limited.

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Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide

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In late 2022, I was invited to go to Ghana with a friend researching work by the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, who first made a splash at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. We were going to Ghana to learn about the context of his work and also to understand the emerging contemporary art scene in the country. Mr. Kudjie and Mr.

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TUM, partners to present electric aCar prototype at IAA; transport for sub-Saharan Africa

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However, to make sure the aCar also meets all the demands placed on it on location, they shipped the vehicle to Ghana, where they tested the technology and concept under local conditions in July 2017. The team produced the first prototype in May 2016 and conducted initial tests in Germany. Otto SPANNER GmbH; Schnupp GmbH & Co.

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Volkswagen & Siemens launch joint electric mobility pilot project in Rwanda

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The services are offered on the Move App, an innovative IT mobility solution which was developed by a local IT start-up company, Awesomity Lab. Ghana and Ethiopia are planned as the next locations. Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda offers mobility solutions services such as ride-hailing and corporate car sharing.

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