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With fast rising gas prices, it’s time to rid ground transportation out of oil

With four to five billion USD spent per day on oil for road transportation globally, transforming the ways we move around to use no more oil is a key issue that will have multiple effects on our societies.

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Can China’s emissions actually peak in 2024 ?

As the world’s largest greenhouse gases emitter, China’s actions on climate change are paramount to our common survival. Lucky us, not only things are trending in the right direction, they are also accelerating in both energy generation and transportation.

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Peak oil demand is nearing. More ebikes are needed

BNEF believes that electric vehicles could help peak oil happen this decade. I just think that maybe cars, electric or otherwise, are not that great an answer to our mobility needs.

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Worth an article – my May and June 2013 tweets

uh oh ! I totally forgot to publish a review of my most interesting news on Twitter for both May and June ! Lucky you, here is this long awaited for selection. As usual, each tweet could have been the subject of a full article. Given this selection I believe it is safe to say

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E-bikes : a growing sustainable alternative to cars

We have seen previously that electric cars and vehicles are an interesting alternative to traditional cars with internal combustion engines. But another solution exist : electric bicycles. There are already 65 million e-bikes on Chinese roads and the market size is fastly increasing Such bicycles compete with cars in large cities like Shanghai as they

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