by Dianne Bayley | May 16, 2023 | Sustainability
Africa is well-positioned to leverage its immense wealth of critical minerals to participate in the global shift towards renewables while promoting socioeconomic growth, job creation, and local content development.Critical minerals are essential for the development of...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 7, 2023 | Innovation
At Tesla’s Investor Day in March 2023, it announced that its next generation of electric motors would contain no rare earth materials. Given Tesla’s huge presence in the EV (electric vehicle) market, this could prove a significant transition for the design and...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 3, 2023 | Innovation
Electric vehicles are quickly gaining popularity around the world. In South Africa, the adoption is slower, but interest is growing. In the meantime, hybrid cars are leading the way.Hybrid cars pair an electric motor and a battery with a petrol or diesel engine, and...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 16, 2022 | Sustainability
4Sight’s Asset Simulation team, represented by its subsidiary Simulation Engineering Technologies (SET), has been chosen as one of two South African companies to run simulation projects at Australian Mining Company OZ Minerals’ Prominent Hill Mine. These projects are...
by Dianne Bayley | Mar 16, 2022 | Sustainability
Hitachi Energy has won an order from Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), Germany’s biggest municipal public transportation company, to supply its Grid-eMotion Fleet smart charging infrastructure to help BVG transition to sustainable mobility in Berlin, the country’s...
