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Tesla executives looking for 790-acre land in Thailand: Prime Minister

Teslarati

In an apparent bid to highlight Thailand’s potential position as an electric vehicle manufacturing hub in Southeast Asia, Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin personally accompanied Tesla executives on a tour of potential industrial sites last week. Thailand has an annual production of 2.5

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EGEB: Thailand builds a huge floating hydro-solar farm

Electrek

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Thailand is building one of the world’s largest floating hydro-solar farms. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Hershey signs two solar PPAs in journey to cutting emissions by 50% by 2030.

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Honda aiming to sell 3.5M electric motorcycles per year by 2030

Green Car Congress

Envisioning the future market environment, uses and technological advancements, Honda is exploring a range of future personal-use models including ones equipped with a power source besides swappable batteries. Honda plans to introduce two commuter EV models between 2024 and 2025 across Asia, Europe and Japan.

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Foxconn tied up with Thailand’s PTT for making electric vehicles

Electric Vehicles India

Foxconn tied up with Thailand’s PTT for making electric vehicles. Taiwan’s Foxconn has announced a partnership with Thailand’s government, a state-run energy group PTT PCL to manufacture electric cars in Thailand. Let us read further about Foxconn tied up with Thailand’s PTT. .

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Big, Smoggy Bangkok Gets a Badly Needed Breath of Fresh Air

Baua Electric

A 2022 report found that the city was falling short of the World Health Organization’s minimum standard of nine square meters (about 97 square feet) of green space per person in urban areas. But more than a quarter-century passed before the state-owned company, known then as the Thailand Tobacco Monopoly, handed over the entire site.

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Toyota Mobility Foundation and partners to launch Rama4 project to ease traffic congestion in Bangkok

Green Car Congress

The Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) and its Thai partners in the Ministry of Transport, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Metropolitan Police Bureau, Chulalongkorn University and Grab Thailand will launch a project to ease traffic congestion on Rama4 Road. It will be known as the “Rama4 Model.”.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

Cars That Think

He was a visiting professor at universities in Australia, India, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Thailand. He also conducted workshops and tutorials on video and audio coding and standards around the world.