Articles and Press
BOATS WITH SOLAR ENERGY IN NARIÑO: LESSONS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY FROM THE COLOMBIAN PACIFIC
March 9 - 2020
Santa Barbara de Iscuandé relies only in aquatic mobility for all transportation activities and economy is based almost entirely in fishing and mangrove resource recollection. Given these scenario electric mobility rises as an alternative capable of enhancing people’s quality of life at the same time it helps preserve ancestral practices in a sustainable fashion
AQUATIC E-MOVILITY: THE IDEA THAT BROUGHT ELECTRIC BOATS TO FISHERS IN THE PACIFIC
September 4 - 2019
Four electric outboard engines propelled by solar power travel the estuaries in Santa Barabara de Iscuandé, Nariño. As a result 25 women dedicated to the recollection of shells from the mangrove mudflats save their earnings as fossil fuels are no longer required.
NAUTICAL ELECTROMOBILITY: TESTING ALTERNATIVE BUSINESS MODELS FOR ARTISANAL FISHING IN COLOMBIA
July - 2019
As the public and private sectors work with academia to bring affordable, intelligent, environmentally friendly, and resources saving mobility options from concept to practice, the current situation in the coastal regions has the poten- tial to develop a model testing site. By using electromobility, operating costs can be reduced and energy efficiency can be significantly increased as demonstrated in physically demanding activities such as Piangua recollection in the Colombian Pacific.
