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What A Lovely Surprise, The Wuling Hongguang Mini EV In Zimbabwe!

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She also wanted the business to actively promote sustainable ventures back home in Zimbabwe. After Blessing Nyarai Tawengwa completed her Masters Degree in Sustainability Management at Columbia University in 2015, she decided to look into starting a business with a sustainable focus. She began to explore several areas.

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You Can Now Buy The New BYD E6 With Blade Battery In Zimbabwe

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BYD Zimbabwe recently launched the T3 electric van in the Zimbabwean market. This made it the first company to introduce brand new electric vehicles in Zimbabwe.

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A Country Like Zimbabwe That Depends On Petrol & Diesel Imports Really Needs To Accelerate EV Adoption

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I grew up in Zimbabwe, a landlocked country in southern Africa that relies on imports for all its petrol and diesel requirements. From about the year 2000 or so, I remember there being periodic petrol queues every now and then. Families could spend all day and night, and at times, several days queuing for petrol […].

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Female Owned Electric Scooter Delivery Service TPL Onthego Looks To Scale In Zimbabwe

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After 6 years in China where she taught English at an international school, Elizabeth returned to Zimbabwe and founded The Purple Lifestyle LTD in January 2019. The Purple Lifestyle was focused on home and office cleaning and disinfection services.

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Truck Stops Are Very Big In America — Could Battery Swapping Be An Option For Charging All Those Trucks?

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One of my favorite musicians is the legendary Chimurenga music icon Thomas Mapfumo, from Zimbabwe. Due to the heated political environment in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s (it still is, you can say), Thomas Mapfumo moved to the US. Although he had traveled to perform in the US several times before settling there, I assume […]

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Surviving 20-Hour Daily Power Cuts With An Electric Car In Zimbabwe

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Frank Sinatra, in his iconic song New York, New York, said “If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere, it’s up to you, New York, New York.” In October 2009, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys released their smash hit “Empire State of mind” where Jay-Z says he feels like the new Sinatra because “Since […].

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Hyundai Looks Like The Most Serious Automaker When It Comes To The African Market

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I was born in Mutare, a beautiful small border town in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe. Mutare is home to one of Zimbabwe’s motor vehicle assembly plants, Quest Motor Corporation. Quest Motors is also the official dealer for BMW in Zimbabwe. I used to like BMW a lot when I was growing up. Being the […].

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Zuva Petroleum Starts Rolling Out EV Chargers At Its Petrol Stations In Zimbabwe

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Which one comes first? Electric cars or the charging stations? Players who want to roll out charging infrastructure would want to see a critical mass of EVs before investing heavily in charging infrastructure, while on the other hand, range-anxious consumers would want the assurance of a charging network.

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There Is A Princess With An Electric Carriage In Norway!

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My daughters also like to ask me hard questions about why we don’t have a king and queen in Zimbabwe and princesses like in the books and movies on TV and why other countries have kings and queens. […]. My four-year-old daughter loves movies and books about princesses. She likes to dress up like a princess.

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Asambe & Kuva’s Partnership Shows the Potential of Fintech, E-Commerce, & Electric Mobility to Transform Africa

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Asambe already has 3rd party last-mile delivery agreements with: FedEx, Zimbabwe (parcel deliveries) Baines Avenue Pharmacy, Zimbabwe (medical supplies) Munch, Zimbabwe (food delivery) UberEats, South Africa (food delivery) Asambe is actively seeking […].

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Sunrun Is Adding Ford F-150 Lightnings To Its Fleet

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At that time, Zimbabwe was going through an extensive power rationing program as the utility was battling to meet demand. I used to work in the solar industry, so it’s something that is close to my heart. I got into the commercial and industrial solar industry (C&I) in 2015. This was due to several reasons […].

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The Wuling Hongguang MINI EV Has A Rival: The Chery QQ Ice Cream Is Coming!

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Growing up in the small border town of Mutare in Zimbabwe, I used to be fascinated by the dairy milk delivery system around the town. I also used to look forward to the weekend. This was because the ice cream man only came around our neighborhood on weekends. He would be on his 3-wheeled bicycle […].

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Could Remittances & Overseas-Based Population Catalyze The Adoption Of Electric Vehicles In Africa? Part 1

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In Zimbabwe for example, official Reserve Bank figures show that remittances surged from $1 billion in 2020 to $1.4 Remittances are the largest source of capital inflows into low and middle-income countries. billion […].

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We Need More Vehicles Like The Ford F150 Lightning: An African Perspective

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In Southern Africa, people in South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe experience regular and in some instances prolonged outages as the power companies in the respective countries fail to […]. I spend most of my time in East and Southern Africa.

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Porsche launches carbon offsetting program for US drivers

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The available programs are focused on forest protection in the US, hydropower in Vietnam, solar energy in Mexico, and habitat preservation in Zimbabwe. Users can choose from four different internationally certified projects to support.

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International Lithium Association (ILiA) established to be the voice of the global lithium industry

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Currently there are around eight large industrial operators in Australia, Chile, Argentina, China, Brazil, Zimbabwe and Portugal that produce lithium raw materials at significant scale, although this number is set to rise as lithium production increases to meet future demand. ppm Li (0.0018%).

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Porsche launches carbon offset program in US

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The available programs are focused on forest protection in the US, hydropower in Vietnam, solar energy in Mexico, and species diversity in Zimbabwe. Porsche customers can choose from four different internationally certified projects to support. How much does it cost?

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GlobalData: Global lithium production to triple over the next four years

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million tons; Congo (Kinshasa), Russia, and Serbia, 1 million tons each; Czechia, 840,000 tons; Zimbabwe, 500,000 tons; Spain, 400,000 tons; Mali, 200,000 tons; Brazil and Mexico, 180,000 tons each; Portugal, 100,000 tons; and Austria, 50,000 tons. Identified lithium resources in Argentina are 9.8

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Video Friday: Dusty at Work

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RSL ] Zimbabwe Flying Labs' Tawanda Chihambakwe shares how Zimbabwe Flying Labs got their start, using drones for STEM programs, and how drones impact conservation and agriculture. Zimbabwe Flying Labs ] DARPA thoughtfully provides a video tour of the location of every artifact on the SubT Final prize course.

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Video Friday: Penguins and Huskies

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Agility ] Zimbabwe Flying Labs' Tawanda Chihambakwe shares how Zimbabwe Flying Labs started using drones for STEM programs and how drones impact conservation and agriculture. [ Our expertise is marrying design, software, and hardware to build robots that are capable of doing limitless tasks as part of a blended human-robot workforce.

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

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With a functioning AfCFTA, the DRC can receive other upstream mineral inputs needed for lithium-ion batteries—such as manganese from, say, South Africa and Madagascar, copper from Zambia, graphite from Mozambique and Tanzania, phosphate from Morocco, and lithium from Zimbabwe, to name but a few.

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UNEP: export of used cars to developing world creating significant environmental problems

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According to the report, many of the countries with “very weak” or “weak” used vehicles regulations, including Malawi, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Burundi, also have very high road traffic death rates. Poor quality used vehicles also lead to more road accidents.

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A Love Letter To My Other Woman

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Or that I’ve spent the last 2 1/2 of those years doing the best work of my career, leading the way to make Los Angeles County and then all of California 100% renewably powered as I do my private little victory dances to her Zimbabwe infused, “ Hear Me Lord ” whose lyrics I rewrite to “ Help me Lord I’m feeling Joe ” (..)

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EV Radar: May 2022

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Business Leaders Call for Linking Water, Energy and Climate in Global Talks

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In the examples cited in the report, biomass for biofuels has the largest and widest ranging footprint: from 24,000 m 3 per 1,000 GJ in the Netherlands to 143,000 m 3 per 1,000 GJ in Zimbabwe. Data: WBCSD (2009). Click to enlarge.

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EV Radar: June 2022

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EV Radar: April 2022

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Comedy CAFE Clowns Crack Me Up

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How about if we give it to you in those big denomination Zimbabwe dollars? By which GM’s head Putz means more money from you and me for a car company that will soon be going bankrupt and stiffing everyone they owe. Now that’s funny! Really Bob? Even MORE money for GM? Maybe some Washington Mutual stock instead?

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Could The Transition To Electric Mobility On The African Continent Support Development Of Local Battery Manufacturing?

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The transition to electric mobility presents a major opportunity for the African continent to leapfrog into the age of electric mobility, allowing most of the continent’s population to bypass the ICE age. Africa’s low motorization rates compared to other parts of the world makes this highly probable.

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Electric Pickups & Vans Are Now Available In Some African Markets — Time For Fleet Operators To Electrify

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Fleet operators constitute the bulk of brand new motor vehicle purchases in a lot of markets on the continent. They also represent an essential customer segment — repeat customers! Fleet operators normally replace their fleets at regular intervals.

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From Chip Factories & EV Production Lines To Superchargers: Morocco’s EV Ecosystem Is Blossoming

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We try to cover what is happening in all the key EV markets of the world, and we increasingly cover quite a lot of content focusing on the development of the African EV market. We are always on the lookout for any interesting developments. There is a lot of exciting stuff happening all over the […].

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The Wuling Hongguang Mini EV Is Not As Small As I Thought!

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90% of the vehicles imported into most African counties are used vehicles imported from Europe, Asia, and North America. This is because most people are not able to afford brand new vehicles that usually retail from about $30,000. The main reason for this is the fact that the majority of people in these developing markets […].

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New All-Electric Shuttle Service Now Available At Harare’s International Airport

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As African countries join the electric vehicle revolution, fleet operators and mass transit services represent some of the low-hanging fruit. These are key segments that are ripe for electrification. A lot of operators in these industries have fixed routes that make it easy to select EVs to fit their specific needs. The fixed nature of […].

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Can Low Speed Electric Vehicles Spark The EV Revolution In Africa?

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The blockbuster Wuling Hongguang Mini EV has helped create an exciting new market for mini electric vehicles in China. In just over 2 years it has sold close to a million units in China. The Mini EV is very popular in the 2nd and 3rd tier Chinese cities and is enabling people who would not […].

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Could Zimbabwe’s Public Transport Chaos Catalyze The Adoption Of Electric Scooters For Personal Mobility?

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Siemens Stiftung’s “Testing E-Mobility Business Models at WE Hub Victoria Limited in Kenya” report aptly highlights the importance of mobility in the introduction section of the report by stating that “Mobility is the basis for the overall development of a society: it gives the population access to jobs, markets, social facilities, and health care.

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China × Cleantech — April 2021

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Welcome to China × Cleantech — April 2021 edition. Our China x Cleantech series covers top cleantech stories in China each month. EV Sales 11% Plugin Vehicle Share In China! On the 23rd of April, José Pontes reported on the sales numbers of the Chinese EV market in March of 2021. It was a great month, […].

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“A Charge Wherever You Are” — Australian EV Charging Service To Make Your Life Easier

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“Thanks for keeping my car alive while I was away. I didn’t park in the best spot and I was going to have 40+ sentry notifications, but I was in a rush to get on the plane and at least I could count on you guys being there.”.