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Zambia Proposes Removing Customs Duty on Battery-Electric Vehicles & Charging Systems

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Here is some good news from Zambia. Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane, Zambia’s Minister of Finance and National Planning, announced that, “… to continue promoting the usage of clean energy as well as supporting the green economy and climate change mitigation, I propose the following measures: a) Remove customs duty on […]

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Zambia Has A New President Who Could Help Accelerate The World’s Transition To Sustainable Energy

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Having followed the development in Zambia since I attended elementary school in the country from 1981 to 1982, there is finally some good news that resonates with me in the context of the global EV revolution and the world’s transition to sustainable energy generation and consumption.

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BYD Partners With Pilatus Motors To Launch Several Models In Zambia!

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It’s good news for Zambia, as BYD has just launched in the country, giving Zambians an opportunity to buy some of the latest electric vehicles from one of the world’s largest electric vehicle firms. continued] The post BYD Partners With Pilatus Motors To Launch Several Models In Zambia! It seems like we get news.

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

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Nations in these parts of the world currently face sharply contrasting situations in the electricity sector. 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 […].

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Zambia’s ZESCO Declares 1,000 MW Surplus in Power Generation — Is It Now Time To Accelerate EV Adoption?

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Zambia’s vertically integrated electricity utility, ZESCO Limited, which generates, transmits, distributes, and supplies electricity in Zambia, has declared that the country now has a surplus generation capacity of approximately 1000 MW.

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BYD’s Sealion 07 EV Comes to Norway

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BYD continues to expand its electric vehicle offerings around the world. While more exotic locations have been getting more of the attention lately (like Guatemala, Paraguay, Chile, Kenya, Zambia, and Pakistan), that also includes offering more models in more European countries. The news this week is that BYD is now.

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Elon Musk provides critical context on hotly-debated “emerald mine” story

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In a 2014 interview with Forbes , Musk noted that “This is going to sound slightly crazy, but my father also had a share in an Emerald mine in Zambia.” As noted by Musk in his recent post, he actually believed that it was true for some time because his father told him that he owned a share in a mine in Zambia.

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