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Teslarati
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has almost 100 Starlink terminals active in Iran. SpaceX activated Starlink services in Iran in September, supporting the United States’ stance on providing internet freedom and free flow of information to Iranians.
Teslarati
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Starlink is now activated in Iran despite the Iranian regime’s attempts to keep its citizens offline and disconnected from the outside world. Elon Musk granted Sadjadpour permission to share the following statement : “Starlink is now activated in Iran.
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Teslarati
JANUARY 3, 2023
This has proven true in Iran, where the government shut off access to the internet and the outside world last fall. The SpaceX CEO announced in December that SpaceX had almost 100 Starlink terminals active in Iran. News SpaceX Featured Iran Starlink
Teslarati
OCTOBER 20, 2022
A video of a Starlink terminal in Iran was recently shared on Instagram. One of the problems that needed to be solved was getting Starlink terminals inside Iran so citizens could access the satellite-based internet. Starlink is in Iran….
Teslarati
SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
Update, it’s been pointed out that Iran International tagged the Twitter account @SpaceXStarlink which is a commentary account and not affiliated with SpaceX. . Update: Iran International confirmed that it was indeed Starlink’s website that was blocked. .
Teslarati
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Starlink terminals are in Iran, and efforts to bring more in are expected to scale up. On Thursday, a video of a Starlink terminal in Iran was shared on Instagram by Manoto TV. “They’ve already sent dozens of terminals to Iran and intend to scale up,” Sadjapour tweeted. government is not involved with this particular group and that this move was “in addition to, not in lieu of, other tools (including VPNs) to circumvent Iran’s state censorship.
Green Car Congress
JULY 5, 2017
Volkswagen will begin the sale of vehicles in Iran in August. The privately-owned local partner Mammut Khodro—also the official Iranian importer for the Volkswagen Group’s Scania brand—will import Volkswagen brand vehicles into Iran and initially distribute them through eight dealers, focusing on the Teheran region. Initially, Volkswagen’s Tiguan and Passat models are to be imported under a contract concluded with the Iranian automotive company Mammut Khodro.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 28, 2016
PSA Peugeot Citroën, which has operated in Iran for more than 30 years, and Iran Khodro signed a joint venture agreement to produce latest-generation vehicles in Iran. The agreement provides for: The restoration of contractual relations concerning the manufacture of Peugeot-branded vehicles currently produced in Iran. Current estimates put the number of Peugeot cars on the road in Iran at more than 4 million.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2018
The rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran is becoming increasingly evident in the oil pricing policies of the two large Middle Eastern producers. Iran, OPEC’s third-largest producer, is trying to convince its oil customers to continue buying Iranian oil despite stringent U.S. Iran has slashed its official selling prices (OSPs) for all grades to all markets for September, looking to monetize what could be its last oil sales to some markets in Asia before the U.S.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
Fars News Agency (FNA) reports that Iranian experts and scientists for the first time managed to produce biodiesel fuel using the oil extracted from Jatropha curcas plant cultivated in Southern Iran.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 20, 2014
Japan-based Terra Motors, a manufacturer of electric two and three-wheelers ( earlier post ), has started sales of the A4000i electric scooter—with new products to follow—in Tehran, Iran with Jahanro Industrial Co, exclusively for next five years. But now it successfully became a distributor of Kawasaki, Bajaj, and TVS, with 1,000 employees and 200 dealers in Iran. We believe that this partnership will lead to great expansion of the electric motorcycle market in Iran.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 21, 2016
The PSA Group and Iran Khodro have signed the final joint venture agreement to produce latest-generation vehicles in Iran. The agreement provides for: The creation of a joint venture on an industrial site in Tehran to produce new latest-generation Peugeot vehicles, on a platform that will also be used by Iran Khodro to develop its own vehicles. The restoration of contractual relations for the production of Peugeot-branded vehicles currently sold in Iran.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
With the clock ticking, the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5 plus 1) are negotiating down to the wire with Iran over its nuclear program. Iran has signaled its willingness to accept international inspections of its nuclear program and the possibility of receiving enriched uranium from abroad. In exchange the US has suggested Iran could maintain some domestic ability to enrich uranium. As a result, Iran’s GDP fell by 5.8
Teslarati
JULY 7, 2021
The existence of the alleged “Starlink” site was shared initially by Reddit and Twitter users from Iran, who immediately noted that the “StarlinkIran.com” website was most certainly a scam.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 21, 2009
Iran’s largest car and truck-manufacturing company, Iran-Khodro, will unveil what it calls the Middle-East’s first hybrid bus. “The hybrid system designed in this project was installed on one of Iran-Khodro Diesel Co. The 4-year project was a collaborative effort by Iran-Khodro Industrial Group, Tehran University, Isfahan University and Iran’s Fuel Conservation Company (IFCO).
Green Car Congress
MAY 13, 2016
Other LG entities—including LG Electronics, LG Chem and LG Innotek—will lead efforts to develop electric motors, batteries and key auto parts, the company said, according to a report from Iran’s Mehr News Agency. According to the deal, as reported in The Chosun Ilbo , LG will develop 20 EVs for automaker Iran Khodro by 2018 and set up charging stations in Tehran. LG International Corp.,
Green Car Congress
JULY 30, 2017
A new class of materials which are suitable agents for displacing oil in enhanced oil recovery operations has been developed by scientists at Swansea University (UK) and scientists at Islamic Azad University in Iran. The new nanoparticle-surfactant complexes, composed of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) surfactant and fumed silica nanoparticles (Si-NPs) improve oil recovery to 58% compared to 45% in the presence of the surfactant alone.
Green Car Congress
JULY 26, 2011
Iran, Iraq, and Syria have signed a deal for the construction of the Middle East’s largest gas pipeline, which would carry gas from Iran’s South Pars gas field to Europe via Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon and beneath the Mediterranean Sea. According to projections, Iran’s gas output will double in the next two or three years due to the expansion of gas fields, which will make it possible for the country to export 250 million cubic meters of gas per day.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 14, 2013
Fars News Agency reports that automaker Iran-Khodro Company (IKCO) will begin introducing cars equipped with its self-developed diesel engine by 2013. The engine meets Euro V emission standards and could be mounted on C and D segment sedans manufactured for Iran market. Mass production of the engine will start in 2015, according to Alireza Aslani, the project manager of the IKCO diesel engine.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
Shana. Iran’s Petrochemical Research and Technology Company (PRTC) has held talks with Zagross Petrochemical Complex, as one of the largest methanol producers in the country, for the construction of an 800,000 ton unit for converting methanol to dimethyl ether. Gholamreza Joukar, head of the PRTC said that the company has also offered the plan for construction of DME units—including a 100,000 ton unit and a 400,000 ton unit to three other companies.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 24, 2011
Iran-Khodro Company (IKCO) plans to reduce the fuel consumption of its products to 7.4 liters per 100km (32 mpg US) in 2011. By 2014, the company plans to reduce average fuel consumption to 6.5 L/100km (36 mpg US). IKCO’s Director for standardization Kayvan Vaziri said that the fuel consumption of its cars had been improved by about one 1 L/100km 2010 in comparison to the previous year. In 2009, the average fuel consumption of IKCO cars was about 8.86 L/100km (26.6
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Iran Khodro Powertrain Co. It can be mounted on all of Iran Khodro’s C and D class products. IPCO) unveiled its first national diesel engine for passenger cars. The unveiling ceremony was concurrent with the first day of the “Sixth International Conference on Internal Combustion Engines” in Tehran, organized by IPCO.
Plugs and Cars
FEBRUARY 20, 2007
Today the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports "Soaring Energy Use Puts Oil Squeeze on Iran." Iran may start rationing gasoline as soon as next month, and its oil exports could dry up in as little as a decade. The stagnation of Iran's oil industry presents a potential crisis for the country and the global oil market. As we all know, Iran is investing in nuclear power to provide a larger chunk of its future energy requirements.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 31, 2010
In a meeting between Head of Iranian Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IDRO) Seyed Majid Hedayat and Deputy Brazilian Science and Technology Minister Czar Gadella in Tehran, Gadella said that Brazil is ready to cooperate with Iran in sugarcane ethanol and other fields of technology, including oil, gas, nanotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and biotechnology.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 23, 2013
What does North Dakota have in common with Iran? If North Dakota were a country, it would rank fifth behind Russia, Nigeria, Iran, and Iraq on the list of worst natural-gas wasters, according to the World Bank. An editorial in The Forum of Fargo-Moorehead blasted the North Dakota natural-gas industry for wasting valuable resources through flaring
Green Car Congress
MAY 22, 2012
Osouli said that the field is different from oil and gas layers located in the Persian Gulf, south of Iran, with respect to its layers. Iranian oil officials announced that the in-place reserves of a newly found oil field in the Caspian Sea may contain 8 to 10 billion barrels of oil—i.e., supergiant field class.
Green Car Congress
JULY 28, 2009
Iran Heavy Diesel Engine Mfg. PressTV. DESA) is designing a V-12 engine that will run on a blend of 80% natural gas and 20% diesel. DESA was established four years ago to design, develop and manufacture medium-duty diesel engines for automotive, industrial and power generation applications. It unveiled its first diesel—the Model D87—on 24 July. However, the 800 kW (1,072 hp) dual-fuel version will have great environmental advantages.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 29, 2011
It's a truism of new-car sales: Gas prices go up, buyers focus more on gas mileage. Gas prices go down again, people forget all about fuel efficiency. Well, here's a gentle reminder about why you may want to focus on cars with high EPA ratings for gas mileage. As The New York Times reported, on Tuesday a senior Iranian government official said the
Green Car Congress
JUNE 26, 2022
For that reason, crude oil production that is offline in Iran, Libya, Venezuela, and now Russia, is excluded from surplus capacity estimates.
Plugs and Cars
MAY 11, 2007
From Saturday's New York Times story " Cheney, on Carrier, Sends Warning to Iran " Vice President Dick Cheney used the deck of an American aircraft carrier just 150 miles off Iran’s coast as the backdrop yesterday to warn that the United States was prepared to use its naval power to keep Tehran from disrupting oil routes. Tags: petroleum dick cheney iran Oil
Green Car Congress
MAY 23, 2016
The next OPEC meeting on the 2nd of June will act as little more than a forum for continued altercations between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The 2 June 2016 OPEC meeting will be held amid a backdrop of oil prices near $50 per barrel, a sharp drop in Nigerian production due to sabotage, turmoil in Venezuela, Saudi Arabia operating with a new oil minister, and Iran aggressively pumping close to pre-sanction levels. by Rakesh Upadhyay for Oilprice.com.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2022
Duqm IV in Iran and Shahid Ghasem Soleimani in Oman are the two refineries that are likely to be the highest contributors in the region with 75 mbd of capacity each, which are expected to become operational by 2025.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 25, 2016
The hopes of reaching an agreement in Doha were scuttled by Saudi Arabia, because it wanted its arch rival, Iran, to participate in the freeze. Unfortunately for oil prices, Iran had made it clear that it would not join any such discussion until they reached pre-sanction levels of oil production. In addition, increasing oil production further by Iran is a big ask—it would need billions of dollars worth of investments in both upstream and downstream facilities to make this happen.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Starlink is already providing services to some places in need, including Ukraine, Iran, and schools in the Amazon. Starlink has also provided support to the people in Iran. SpaceX’s Starlink donation feature might go live sometime next week.
Green Car Congress
JULY 23, 2015
Researchers at the University of Tehran (Iran), with colleagues at Isfahan University of Technology and Iran University of Science and Technology, are proposing a new intelligent control strategy for the energy management of hybrid powertrains based on the driving cycle type.
Green Car Congress
JULY 30, 2019
OPEC registered zero growth as production in the Arab Gulf countries were offset by losses in Iran and Venezuela due to geopolitical issues. The collapse of Venezuela and Mexico and Iran’s retreat prevailed over increases in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, reducing the weight of medium sour crude oil for the first time below 40%, with impacts on price differentials and refining.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 26, 2017
The ‘Fragile Five’ petrostates—Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria and Venezuela—continue to see supply disruption potential, with northern Iraq crude exports at risk due to an escalation of tensions between the (Kurdistan Regional Government), Baghdad and Turkey, while the United States has decertified the 2015 Iran nuclear deal,” U.S. The danger to Iran is a return of U.S. Iran probably won’t pose a supply risk to the market, at least not this year.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 6, 2015
President Putin’s recent moves in the Middle East—to shore up Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria through deployment of combat aircraft, equipment, and manpower and build-out of air-, naval-, and ground-force bases, and the agreement in the last week with Iran, Iraq, and Syria on intelligence and security cooperation—could contribute to Russian efforts to combat the myriad negative pressures on Russia’s vital energy industry. by Dalan McEndree for Oilprice.com.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 31, 2020
Construction started on five reactors in 2019, two in China and one each in Iran, Russia and the UK.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
The team also identified a methane plume south of Tehran, Iran, at least 3 miles (4.8 Scientists estimate flow rates of about 40,300 pounds (18,300 kilograms) per hour at the Permian site, 111,000 pounds (50,400 kilograms) per hour in total for the Turkmenistan sources, and 18,700 pounds (8,500 kilograms) per hour at the Iran site.
Green Car Congress
JULY 10, 2017
Borgward will systematically continue to globalize its activities by entering the markets of Middle Eastern countries such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Iran. In this region, we expect especially strong momentum to come from Iran. In accordance with this roadmap, the company will expand westwards from China before entering the European market. As announced, we will boost growth further and open up new markets.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 10, 2015
However, OPEC has been in the line of fire from the western world in light of its stance of not reducing the production levels of its member nations (excluding Iran). The EIA even predicts that OPEC’s net oil exports (excluding Iran) could fall to as low as $380 billion in 2015. Iran Nuclear Deal: A warning sign for OPEC? Iran is all set to pump close to 300 million barrels of crude into the market, thereby kickstarting another potential decline in oil prices.
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
But while the Syrian uprising and political tensions between Iran and the West over its nuclear program are playing a small part in increasing the price you pay Over the past week or so, we’ve seen the average price of gasoline hit $3.60 per gallon of regular, with some areas of the country -- like California -- reaching a heady $4 a gallon.
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