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

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JUNE 15, 2016

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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Jaguar Land Rover partners with Pramac to create charging unit using second-life Jaguar I-PACE batteries

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MARCH 16, 2022

Called the Off Grid Battery Energy Storage System (ESS), Pramac’s technology—which features lithium-ion cells from Jaguar I-PACE batteries taken from prototype and engineering test vehicles—supplies zero-emission power where access to the grid supply is limited or unavailable.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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GE Transportation to Supply 100 Locomotives to Transnet in South Africa; First AC Diesel Electric Locomotive to Sub-Saharan Africa

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

GE South African Technologies (GESAT), GE Transportation’s entity in South Africa, will supply 100 locomotives to Transnet Freight Rail (TFR). TFR is South Africa’s state-owned rail freight logistics utility; Transnet Limited is its parent company.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

Cars That Think

APRIL 14, 2022

Last year the IEEE Future Networks initiative ran the inaugural IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge to seek out innovative projects and ideas aimed at increasing connectivity. Last year’s winning projects were presented at the Connecting the Unconnected Summit , a virtual event held in November.

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SAIC Motor to invest up to USD 2 billion in India by decade-end, says top executive | Autocar Professional

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MAY 8, 2024

According to him, in the long term, the JV aspires to export vehicles to key right-hand drive markets such as Australia and South Africa. The facility will develop connected, new-age, and local mobility solutions. SAIC entered India in 2017 through its British brand MG Motor and started sales in 2019.

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Both are easy to define—a population’s share connected to the national grid or to a local source of electricity, and the ability to read and write—but such definitions do not make it possible to get a truly informed verdict. Even South Africa, by far the best-supplied country south of the Sahara, suffers from frequent blackouts.

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SAIC Motor to invest up to USD 2 billion in India this decade | Autocar Professional

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MAY 8, 2024

However, it also harbors a long-term aspiration to export vehicles to key Right-Hand Drive markets like Australia and South Africa, hinting at the venture’s potential for global expansion. The head of international sales says the company’s vision is to cater to the domestic market first.

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SMART: working for a systems-based approach to sustainable mobility; Alcoa Foundation support for practical solutions in Beijing and Detroit

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MARCH 18, 2013

The next generation of urban transportation is about connecting transportation modes, services, and technologies, bringing diverse innovations together in ways that favor accessibility (meeting needs) over mobility (moving for the sake of moving), and that work significantly better for people, economies, and the planet. Zielinski, S.

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PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The risk to business is that it faces more unpredictable and extreme weather, and disruptions to market and supply chains. Sectors dependent on food, water, energy or ecosystem services need to scrutinise the resilience and viability of their supply chains. Other G20 (Australia, Korea, EU, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina).

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Falling Domestic Fares and an A.I. Arms Race: What Travelers Can Expect in 2024

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JANUARY 18, 2024

For example, it could improve automatic rebooking onto new flights when customers miss connections or weather snarls runways. software will be able to inform more human-made decisions, like how to most efficiently reposition baggage carts and staff in response to tight connections or flight delays. On the ground, A.I. Finally, A.I.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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AUGUST 20, 2022

Even if that were possible, there would also have to be an enormous increase in charging infrastructure and in material supply chains. The growth in the number of EVs introduces various other challenges, too, not the least of which are the greater demands placed on material supply chains for EV batteries and electricity grids.

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Study recommends $10B/year US federal investment in energy RD&D and a substantial price on carbon emissions; leveraging the national labs and encouraging the private sector for a clean energy future

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The US government should strengthen the connections between its energy innovation institutions and the private sector throughout the innovation chain, but particularly as technologies move toward the development, demonstration, and deployment phases. billion, a 92% increase over the FY 2009 appropriations.

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

Jaguar Land Rover partners with Pramac to create charging unit using second-life Jaguar I-PACE batteries

BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

GE Transportation to Supply 100 Locomotives to Transnet in South Africa; First AC Diesel Electric Locomotive to Sub-Saharan Africa

This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

SAIC Motor to invest up to USD 2 billion in India by decade-end, says top executive | Autocar Professional

Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

SAIC Motor to invest up to USD 2 billion in India this decade | Autocar Professional

SMART: working for a systems-based approach to sustainable mobility; Alcoa Foundation support for practical solutions in Beijing and Detroit

PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

Falling Domestic Fares and an A.I. Arms Race: What Travelers Can Expect in 2024

We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Study recommends $10B/year US federal investment in energy RD&D and a substantial price on carbon emissions; leveraging the national labs and encouraging the private sector for a clean energy future

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