While fully electric vehicles still enjoy substantial tax breaks, hybrid vehicles face an 18% VAT and age-based excise duties as of 2025. On top of that, EV owners in Rwanda pay an annual road tax of just 50,000 RWF (around $37 USD).
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The Gabonese government is actively promoting the electric vehicle sector through various supportive measures. These include subsidies for purchasing and replacing EVs, along with efforts to expand charging networks and parking facilities.
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Senegal now aims to increase electricity production from 1,740 megawatts (MW) to 12,000 MW by 2050, and the government announced in May 2025 the Bel Air power plant, one of the country's largest with a capacity of 335 megawatts, had begun the conversion to run on LNG.
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The UK parliament recently introduced a cap-and-floor mechanism for net revenues of Long-Duration Energy Storage in Great Britain (GB). The article summarizes learnings from the UK proceedings around four questions: (a) What drives the need for LDES? (b) What are the barriers to.
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