Colombia – Thinking Port

Most e-Mopeds In Bogota Could Be Rendered Illegal This Year

June 24, 2023 admin bicycles, BOGOTA, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, Colombia, electric bikes, electric mopeds, electric scooters, Electric vehicles, motorcycles + scooters, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:20:04 +0000

Laws take time to catch up with technological changes. And, worse, lawmakers are usually abysmal at predicting technological innovation and, more importantly, how that innovation is going to affect society. An event related to this seems to be unfolding here in Bogota in real-time. Because the country wanted to be prepared, laws were put in place […]

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3 Brave People Pushing The Limits Of Their Tiny EVs

June 13, 2023 admin cars, clean transport, Colombia, electric cars, electric motorcycles, electric scooters, Electric vehicles, ev road trips, motorcycles + scooters, South America

Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2023 03:57:04 +0000

Tiny electric vehicles tackle the mountains of Colombia.

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BYD Silently Reduces BEV Prices In Colombia

May 12, 2023 admin byd, byd atto 3, byd dolphin, byd seagull, byd yuan plus, cars, clean transport, Colombia, electric cars, Electric vehicles

Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 02:10:53 +0000

Spearheaded by Tesla, price cuts in BEV lines have been happening all over the world … and, more recently, seem to have arrived in Latin America. BYD in Colombia BYD has been a local player in Colombia since the early 2010s, when it both started selling gasoline vehicles (particularly the city car BYD F0, which […]

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Public EV Transportation In South America

May 3, 2023 admin cars, chile, clean transport, Colombia, Costa Rica, electric buses, electric cars, Electric vehicles, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: Otto Gunderson| Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 07:17:36 +0000

The common conception appears to be that a successful transition to electric vehicles is determined by the number of passenger vehicles sold. China, Europe, and the United States lead the way in this category and are thus considered to be at the forefront of EV adoption. However, another metric should be used when analyzing countries […]

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The World’s Largest Electric Bus Has Been Sitting In A Parking Lot For 3 Years

April 16, 2023 admin BOGOTA, cities, clean transport, Colombia, electric buses, Electric vehicles, hydrogen electric buses, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 01:33:28 +0000

… and hydrogen buses get another chance in the meantime.

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The Year of Change: Snippets from the EV Situation in Latin America

March 25, 2023 admin Argentina, batteries, Brazil, byd, byd seagull, cars, chery, clean power, clean transport, Colombia, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, green economy, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, Mexico, renault, renault kwid e-tech, stellantis, tesla, tesla mexico, texas, weg

Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:30:29 +0000

Long distances, oilfields, and low salaries abound south of the Rio Bravo. If you ask me, it’s mainly these three conditions that have marked Latin America as one of the laggards in the EV transition. Alas, all bad times should come to an end, and recent developments in the region start to show not a […]

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Could Colombia Be 1st Country To Build GM EVs In Latin America?

February 21, 2023 admin cars, clean transport, Colombia, electric cars, Electric vehicles, gm

Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 06:39:25 +0000

“Committed to making Colombia the first Latin American country to assemble our EVs?” That was the question Shilpan Amin, President of General Motors International, asked Colombia’s GM team during his visit to this country on February 2 after hearing them say that Colombia’s government was committed to the energy transition. A small question, and yet, […]

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South America Plugin Vehicle Markets, A Brief Overview — Part 3: Uruguay & Colombia

August 24, 2022 admin cars, clean transport, Colombia, electric buses, electric cars, Electric vehicles, hybrid electric cars, phev, Uruguay

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 03:02:37 +0000

By Juan Diego Celemín Mojica “Passionate for all things Latin American, I’ve been closely following the energy and mobility transitions since they started to be present south of the Equator.” If you missed part 1 and part 2 of this series, see: South American Plugin Vehicle Markets, A Brief Overview — Part 1: Argentina, Peru, […]

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NREL Helps Develop Colombia’s Next Generation of Renewable Energy Leaders

June 14, 2022 admin clean power, Colombia, colombia renewable energy, colombia solar energy, colombia wind energy, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, us agency for international development (usaid), USAID, wind energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 01:01:20 +0000

Laboratory Is Building up Young Energy Leaders in Colombia Through Hands-on Training and Education While much of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) campus sat quietly late on a Friday afternoon, one conference room was still bustling with activity. Nearly 20 international visitors sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) were just […]