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Second evolution of Audi RS Q e-tron features all-new body, enhanced aerodynamics, more efficient drivetrain

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The innovative prototype, bearing the abbreviation E2, is significantly improved for the 2022 Morocco Rally and the 2023 Dakar Rally. In October, Team Audi Sport will prepare for the 2023 Dakar Rally with the new prototype in Morocco. Internally, this structure was called the “elephant foot.” RS Q e-tron E2.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. billion in 2018.

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Skeleton Technologies joins Flying Whales program to develop next generation of heavy-lift, large-capacity airships

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We’re designing the LCA60T to transport logging timber from remote locations, but that also means being able to deliver large items like wind turbines or electricity pylons in one piece to the side of a mountain, for example. For that purpose Morocco will become the “third parent country” of Flying Whales.

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e.,

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Azerbaijan Plans Caspian-Black Sea Energy Corridor

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The transcontinental connection would start with wind, solar, and hydropower generated in Azerbaijan and Georgia, and off-shore wind power generated in the Caspian Sea. The Morocco-U.K. GW over 3,800 km from Morocco to England. In June, the company broke ground on a trio of wind and solar projects with 1 GW capacity.

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This Tesla driver just finished an electric around-the-world trip. For the fourth time.

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This journey was notable for including what de Mestre believes is the first zero-emission transatlantic trip by car, as he shipped the Roadster in the cargo hold of a wind-powered cargo ship, which barely fit due to the car’s exceptionally small size.