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

Cars That Think

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. We measure access to electricity no better than we do the rate of literacy. What does 50 kWh/year deliver?

Central African Republic

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

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Automakers in Europe can lower their emissions by shortening the transport distance and capitalizing on the DRC’s hydroelectric powered grid and proximity to raw materials. However, the raw materials for batteries are, in most cases, imported into China from Africa and refined before being exported to Europe. Adesina.

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Africa Supplies Emissions Poland

EV Driven

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

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

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