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| Click on blue article title to read full story. | | | | EVs | | | | Unknown - May 8, 2018 PARIS (Reuters) - Japanese carmaker Nissan will gradually stop selling diesel cars in Europe, in a further sign of weakening demand for those cars as customers worry about tax rises and looming bans and restrictions related to diesel in many countries. The auto industry and its suppliers are facing a global regulatory crackdown on diesel emissions and are adjusting their businesses, including investing heavily in electric vehicles. | | CNN.com International - May 8, 2018 For a country known for its lavish and upmarket cars, from Lamborghini to Ferrari, and Maserati, it might come as a surprise the culture in... more rapidly than we actually we think," he says, especially with the help of Formula E. "It's helped put emotion into electricvehicles." For a country known for its lavish and upmarket cars, from Lamborghini to Ferrari, and Maserati, it might come as a surprise the culture in Italy is shifting towards electrification…Enel wants to eliminate this -- the population's "range anxiety" -- by building an electric highway from Italian northern metropolis Milan all the way to the country's capital, Rome. Along this route, drivers have the opportunity to recharge their batteries every 60 minutes…Enel has also set itself a huge target across the entirety of country -- with plans to build 7,000 recharging points in urban and rural areas by 2020, then another 7,000 by 2022. Around 1,400 of those will be fast charging stations, Piglia says, which can charge your vehicle in 20 minutes -- 6 times faster than usual charging points…Enel is investing between €100 million ($122 million) and €300 million ($366 million) in the project, Piglia says…In November last year, energy firm E.ON and Danish e-mobility provider CLEVER announced plans to create a network of ultra-fast charging stations in countries between Norway and Italy…"(Full conversion) will happen more rapidly than we actually we think," he says, especially with the help of Formula E…"It's helped put emotion into electric vehicles." | | CNN Money - May 7, 2018 We run a successful business ... out of a Craigslist trailer You can get electric cars, SUVs and trucks. Soon, you could be seeing electric Winnebagos. There's no word, yet, on when you could be spending the night in one. Winnebago is famous for campers, but the first electric Winnebago models Winnebago's first plug-in models are intended to be used locally for things like mobile classrooms, outreach vehicles and bloodmobiles…"We believe that all-electric vehicle applications continue to evolve," said Ashis Bhattacharya, head of Winnebago's specialty vehicles division. "This is our first step in this space."..Plug-in camping might not be that far off, though…Some KOA campgrounds do have electric vehicle charging available…To make its electric vehicles, Winnebago has partnered with Motiv Power Systems, a company that makes chassis for medium-duty electric trucks. | | | | | Congo | | | | Voice of America - May 7, 2018 UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging Congo's government to lift a ban on public demonstrations "to ensure a level... Congo Presidential Hopeful Rejects Any Deal With Kabila DRC Humanitarian Crisis Back on International Agenda More Africa Stories UN Chief Urges Congo to Lift Protest The U.N. chief said in a report to the Security Council circulated Monday that lifting the ban on protests would also "greatly contribute to the opening of political space" and allow the Congolese people "to freely exercise their political and civil rights."..Congo has gone through decades of ethnic clashes, rebellions and violence carried out by armed groups and militias trying to control gold and other lucrative resources. The U.N. has had a peacekeeping force in the country since 1999…Congo's President Joseph Kabila has been in power since 2001, and the country has simmered with tensions over the long-delayed presidential election, with critics accusing him of trying to cling to power…The secretary-general noted that the Independent National Electoral Commission published the final voter registry on April 6 after a review process that removed some 6 million duplicate registrations and individuals too young to vote. He said about 40.3 million people are eligible to vote, half of them women…But Guterres said the government has not yet published the list of political parties eligible to contest the elections. | | | | | | |