Electric Vehicles

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/49534341

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/16046797

September 11, 2023

Transjakarta is eyeing to operate 50 percent electric buses by 2027.

Jakarta Acting Governor Heru Budi Hartono previously set a target of adding 400 electric buses by 2025. In 2023, at least 190 more electric buses will be in operation to improve the city's air quality, bringing the total to 220.

Apart from Transjakarta electric buses, the city administration is also keen to open more Public Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (SPKLU) in South Jakarta and Central Jakarta as these two areas have a lot of offices, schools, and other activity centers.

This is actually pretty old news. The latest news is that TransJakarta actually just added 200 units of EV buses (I can't find any news about this from English publication sadly) [1]. Making the total EV buses in operation 300 units.

As a context, there are two kinds of TransJakarta buses: high-deck/BRT and low-deck/non-BRT. Previously, TransJakarta added low-deck buses in Jakarta back in 2022. This year they are planning to add the high-deck version of EV buses for the first time. As far as I know, the new buses will be in operation just in time on christmas this year.

[1] https://finance.detik.com/infrastruktur/d-7679606/transjakarta-resmi-tambah-200-unit-bus-listrik (Indonesian source)

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29322656

Intramotev is a St. Louis-based company founded in 2020 to develop autonomous, zero-emission rail solutions that decrease railway costs and promote environmental responsibility across a longstanding yet dated freight segment plagued by diesel pollution.

Today, the company shared video footage of its TugVolt battery electric railcar retrofit deployed at a calcium mine in Michigan.

TugVolt can be controlled from a smartphone and decouple from the consist (the group of railcars as a whole), and operate independently for first—and last-mile legs of trips on existing freight lines.

Pictured: Wuling Binguo EV, one of the EV car I most often see in Jakarta and Surabaya, Indonesia. I also am beginning to see BYD EV cars in Jakarta too

By Andra Febrian - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=145229895

As an Indonesian, I am kinda surprised to see at least like one or two EV each day in Jakarta and Surabaya, especially when EVs here are still considered expensive cars.

I am also surprised seeing more EVs than hybrid cars here

Stark Future announce the much-anticipated Stark Varg EX enduro model with greater battery life, lights, handguards, street legal, and enduro chassis set-up.

The Model Y is prettier and performs better, not to mention the charging infrastructure in place is a huge bonus. For Renault to overcome all of that, bloody well done.

Tesla still dominates US EV sales. It may represent less than 50% of the market finally, but it’s still nearly as much as every other automaker combined, which is stunning and not at all the sign of a mature market. One has to expect its share will continue to decline as other automakers continue to offer new models, offer better specs and value for money, and scale up production more and more. Well, I guess some people expect that Tesla will bounce back, see a surge in sales, and shoot above 50% market share again. I don’t see that happening, at least not for long. The long term trend is down from about 80% of the US market to less than 50% of the US EV market, and I expect that trend will continue for years to come.

Indonesia’s abundant nickel reserves are crucial for a low carbon world. But extracting them is ruining local peoples’ lives and causing rampant deforestation

Mining companies have been granted access to vast swathes of Kabaena, with licenses awarded to mine around three-quarters of the island’s territory. Only a few mining concessions are currently operating – but their impact is already being felt deeply.

Indonesia is the world’s biggest nickel producer, and has the largest reserves on earth, most of which are in Sulawesi and Halmahera islands. In the so-called ‘nickel provinces’ of these islands,