CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Last Friday, Ghana held its 1st E-Mobility Conference and Exhibition. The conference was organised as part of Ghana’s “Drive Electric Initiative” (DEI-Gh). The Drive Electric Initiative was launched in October 2019. Ghana’s Drive Electric Initiative aims: To drive the utilisation of Ghana’s excess electricity supply.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) make up 90% of businesses in Africa. Most of these are essentially offline market places. A number of startups across Africa are working towards connecting and digitizing these small to medium enterprises.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The transition to electric mobility is now well underway around the world. In China, for example, the world’s largest vehicle market, fully electric car sales had 26% share of auto sales in September, and 35% had a plug. In Europe, fully electric car sales […]. We see that the European EV market is also heating up.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 11, 2022

Ghanaian company SolarTaxi, which was started by Jorge Appiah in 2018, has been making good progress in the electric mobility sector. The company designs, assembles, and distributes electric motorcycles & electric cars for transportation and delivery services in Ghana. SolarTaxi […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 24, 2023

The transition to electric mobility is now well underway in a lot of countries around the world. There has been significant progress in the electric bus, electric car, electric scooter & motorcycle, and electric bicycle sectors over the past decade. To […]

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Governments in emerging markets and developing economies: Dominican Republic; Ghana; India – two-wheelers and three-wheelers constitute more than 70% of global sales and more than 80% in India. Unilever; Vattenfall; Zenith; Zurich. Financial institutions: Aviva; NatWest.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 28, 2021

With the rapid growth of battery electric vehicles, battery recycling is also an important aspect of the electric vehicles revolution. India’s largest battery recycling company Gravita India Ltd is entering into the electric vehicles battery recycling business. Gravita targets a supply of approx.

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Teslarati

JULY 29, 2022

It is aiming to manufacture a polarizing-looking car, it is working with an atypical set of suppliers , and to top it off, it is looking to push serious legislative action that would make the Tesla charging connector the new standard for electric vehicles in the United States. Many brands have employed the use of ambassador programs.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Fleet operators constitute the bulk of brand new motor vehicle purchases in a lot of markets on the continent. These replacements are generally based on the vehicles covering a certain mileage or having been in service […]. They also represent an essential customer segment — repeat customers!

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The report says as of June 30, 2023, light motor vehicles (up to 2,300 kg) accounted for 76.5% of the 1,583,700 registered vehicles in the country. Zimbabwe’s national statistics agency, Zimstat, recently released its Transport Statistics Report for the 2nd Quarter of 2023.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

continued] The post Kofa Unveils The TAILG Jidi Electric Motorcycle: A Game-Changer for Africa’s Gig Workers appeared first on CleanTechnica. Last year, we reported that Kofa, a Ghanaian company focusing on battery swap networks, and TAILG were jointly developing a.

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Baua Electric

MAY 5, 2024

Egypt’s recent move to recognise quadricycles as public transport makes for a big new business opportunity and sales in FY2025 should rise sharply. Turkey (above) and Ghana are among the global markets where the made-in-India Bajaj Qute already has a presence. More Qutes have been sold overseas than in India.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Semiconductors, green hydrogen, renewable energy, electronics, MSMEs, and electric mobility are some of the focus areas for the summit. billion investment in fuel cell electric vehicle mobility, hydrogen blending with natural gas, green chemical production such as ammonia and methanol and five GW hydrogen-based energy storage projects.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We try to cover what is happening in all the key EV markets of the world, and we increasingly cover quite a lot of content focusing on the development of the African EV market. We are always on the lookout for any interesting developments. There is a lot of exciting stuff happening all over the […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Mutare is home to one of Zimbabwe’s motor vehicle assembly plants, Quest Motor Corporation. I was born in Mutare, a beautiful small border town in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe. Quest Motors is also the official dealer for BMW in Zimbabwe. I used to like BMW a lot when I was growing up. Being the […].

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Baua Electric

APRIL 16, 2024

sources of the key electric vehicle battery metal, although key financing and local regulatory challenges remain. Piedmont, which also is working on lithium projects in Tennessee, Ghana and Quebec, must still obtain state air quality and wastewater permits, both of which are routine for mining projects in the state.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

There is probably no better place and time to advertise vehicles with Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) capability than in South Africa right now! Vehicles equipped with V2L make it possible to power 240V appliances, for example, from the vehicle’s traction battery.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 4, 2021

Several countries in Africa are looking at resuscitating old motor vehicle assembly plants or developing new assembly plants. The motor vehicle assembly industry, as well as the manufacture of associated components that boost downstream industries, are seen as a catalyst for economic growth, bringing much needed job creation opportunities.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 3, 2023

Throughout 2022, researchers, staff, and leadership at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) worked together with collaborators and partners to advance renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.

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