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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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If approached correctly, African countries can capitalize on their abundant natural resources, growing demand for vehicles and rapid urbanization to build a global hub to produce electric vehicles. We are only at the beginning of the path to achieving net-zero emissions globally.

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Flat-pack OX electric truck gets a $163 million order, expands in Africa

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Electric truck startup OX Delivers scored a $163 million multi-year deal to bring its tough, capable, and low-cost electric trucks-as-a-service vehicles to East Africa in a bid to bring e-mobility to the global south. OX Delivers calls its truck the first purpose-built electric vehicle for the Global South. Good for them.

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Once More: Can Bajaj Auto repeat its CNG success? | Autocar Professional

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The number of household connections are set to rise to 125 million over that period, from around eight million at present. Bajaj Auto’s optimism stems from their dominant position (nearly 80% market share) in the Indian threewheeler segment, itself one of the largest globally.

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Study finds economic losses due to health burdens caused by in-car PM2.5 exposure inversely proportional to per capita GDP

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Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) set out to investigate whether the amount of PM 2.5 drivers inhaled is connected to the duration drivers spend in pollution hotspots and socio-economic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP). El-Gendy, A., Nagendra, S. Environment International 155, 106688 doi: 1?0?.?1?0?1?6?/?j?.?e?n?v?i?n?t?.?2?0?2?1?.?1?0?6?6?8?8.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. Maria Oden , also a bioengineering professor, founded the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies.

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