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Volkswagen & Siemens launch joint electric mobility pilot project in Rwanda

Green Car Congress

The pilot e-Golfs will be added into the Volkswagen Mobility Solutions Rwanda fleet to provide customized mobility service. The services are offered using a fleet of vehicles assembled at Volkswagen Rwanda’s assembly facility in Kigali. Ghana and Ethiopia are planned as the next locations. —Thomas Schäfer.

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Global Fuel Economy Initiative launches second 3-year campaign; ICCT joins partnership

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By end of 2013 to have a prototype working model which can forecast the potential shape of the fleet in each country using core data. to have 20 countries in various stages of implementation by 2015 by which time the tool will be self-implementing and ready for global rollout.

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Boeing Again Under Scrutiny After Latest 737 Max Problem

Baua Electric

The Max was grounded in early 2019 after two crashes killed a total of 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia. On Sunday, Turkish Airlines announced that it would immediately ground the five Max 9 planes in its fleet until further notice. Alaska Airlines has 65 Max 9 planes, while United Airlines has 79.

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F.A.A. Investigating Whether Boeing 737 Max 9 Conformed to Approved Design

Baua Electric

The company has struggled to regain the public’s trust after two crashes of 737 Max 8 jetliners, in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019, killed a total of 346 people. United has 79 of the planes and Alaska has 65, but Alaska has had the bigger share of cancellations from the grounding because the Max 9 makes up 20 percent of its fleet.

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