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Gas Stations are Changing Globally. How Has It Changed in Your Town? (Part 3: Africa)

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While Europe and Asia redesign their roadside service stations around high-powered charging plugs for passenger cars, the African continent is charting an entirely different course for the retail forecourt. In Nairobi, Kigali, Cotonou, and Johannesburg, the traditional petrol station is transforming not by merely copying Western grid-tied fast chargers, but … [continued]

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Heart Aerospace Just Flew The Aviation Transition Investors Should Be Putting Billions Into

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Heart Aerospace’s X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes on August 12 from Plattsburgh International Airport, powered entirely by batteries. The aircraft has a 106-foot wingspan, weighed more than 25,000 pounds at takeoff and drew more than a megawatt at peak. Heart calls it the largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown. The … [continued]

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Aviation’s $4 Trillion Footprint Does Not Prove Every Flight Adds Growth

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Aviation performs useful economic work. It connects remote communities, moves urgent and high-value cargo, brings visitors to places that rely on tourism and enables some work that still requires people to be physically present with equipment, sites, customers or negotiating partners. Those are strong arguments for aviation as a service. … [continued]

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As Jet Fuel Supplies Tighten, Can Other Fuels Meet Demand?

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New Research Evaluates Potential of 5 Aviation Fuels To Lessen Supply Chain Shocks By Anna Squires, NLR Tight jet fuel supplies—and a growing demand for jet fuel—are intensifying interest in an aviation fuel mix that extends beyond Jet A and A-1, the most widely used aviation fuels in the world. … [continued]

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