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

Cars That Think

Similarly, having a distribution line (often illegally rigged) running to a dwelling tells us nothing about the usage of power or the reliability of its supply. Global electrification has risen steadily since World War II, reaching 73 percent in 2000 and 90 percent in 2019 (the pandemic year of 2020 was the.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

will be competing for the same finite supplies of oil and gas. Just this past year Russia sent tanks into oil-rich Georgia, and an oil tanker was hijacked off the coast of Somalia. But what if we have only a short time before the oil supply is disrupted? To get an adequate supply of batteries for U.S. And they exist.

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