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FIA President Suggests New Rules Regarding Offensive Language Need ‘Improvements’

The Truth About Cars

Technically, racing personalities are also prohibited from making any political or religious statements. His penance was to allocate time to help build cars for the junior Rwanda Automobile Club, with the FIA basically stating that it wanted to make an example of him.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

Cars That Think

The IEEE member from Kigali, Rwanda, participated in installing portable sinks in nearby rural markets to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provided clean water and sanitation services to people displaced by the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in 2021. It teaches leadership and other soft skills.

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VW Is Exploring Opportunities for Electrification in Africa’s Burgeoning 2-Wheeler Market

CleanTechnica EVs

Two-wheelers are a big deal in a lot of African countries for various applications including for personal mobility, as motorcycle taxis, as well as the growing demand in the last mile delivery sector. The ride-share market as well as the leisure and tourism sectors are also areas with potential in a lot of African countries. […]

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How Zipline Designed Its Droid Delivery System

Cars That Think

We know the folks at Zipline pretty well, though, and they’ve certainly made creative engineering work for them, as we saw when we visited one of their “nests” in rural Rwanda. Like, is this really the best way of solving a problem, or is it just the coolest way? We tried to leverage the chubby but cute look that baby seals have going on.

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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer

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We’ve been covering the drone delivery company Zipline in Spectrum for several years, and I do encourage listeners to check out our great onsite reporting from Rwanda in 2019 when we visited one of Zipline’s dispatch centers for delivering vital medical supplies into rural areas. Just go to spectrum.ieee.org/newsletters to subscribe.