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Press Release: Driving the Transition: Bboxx and Spiro Team Up to Accelerate Africa’s EV Transition
The alliance will accelerate the delivery of EV motorcycles (e-motos) to customers whose livelihoods depend on access to inexpensive transport across East and West African markets.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mufin Green Finance Raises $1 Million From Shell Foundation
The funding is aimed at catalyzing commercial debt by enabling Mufin to leverage approximately $40-60 million debt over five years.
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- Energy, Technology, Transportation
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- Asia Pacific
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- e-mobility
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Analysis: Indonesia’s EV Mission Will Be Trickier Than Just Mining Nickel
Southeast Asia’s biggest economy wants to use its booming battery-metals sector as a springboard to become a global player in electric vehicles.
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- Energy, Technology, Transportation
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- South Asia
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- e-mobility, mining
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Analysis: ‘Global China’ Is a Big Part of Latin America’s Renewable Energy Boom, but Homegrown Industries Are Key
Lithium, essential for EV batteries, could be South America’s white gold.
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- Energy, Transportation
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- Latin America
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- e-mobility, mining, renewable energy, solar, wind
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Biden Administration Opens up $20 Billion ‘Green Bank’ for Clean Energy Projects Focused On Disadvantaged Communities
Vice President Kamala Harris, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan and other officials will announce the grant competitions Friday at a historically black university in Baltimore.
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- Energy, Finance, Technology
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- North America
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China’s BYD Joins Latin America Lithium Rush to Feed Electric-Car Switch
Brazil and Chile are key pillars in BYD’s regional push.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Latin America
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- e-mobility, mining, transportation
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Making a Successful Business Pivot During the Energy Transition: Three Lessons from an Auto Supplier Diversifying into Renewables
As efforts to decarbonize the world’s energy systems accelerate, many industries and companies face both new challenges and tremendous opportunity — and the automotive industry is a highly visible proving ground for this shift. Diana Páez and Dana Gorodetsky at the William Davidson Institute explore how Bosal, a global automotive supplier, is leveraging its expertise with internal combustion engine-related products to expand into the renewable energy market, and share some lessons from its evolution that can be valuable to other companies affected by the energy transition.
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- Energy, Technology, Transportation
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Afreximbank Ploughs $900 Million into Special Economic Zones Creation
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) can catalyse industrialisation while building domestic supply chains. They also attract foreign investment and skills transfers.
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- Investing, Technology, Transportation
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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