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Author: Sara Manuela Graciano Correa

Solar-powered boats in Nariño: a lesson in renewable energy

Santa Barbara de Iscuandé relies only on aquatic mobility for all transportation activities and the economy is based almost entirely on fishing and mangrove resource recollection. Given these scenarios, electric mobility rises as an alternative capable of enhancing people’s quality of life at the same time it helps sustainably preserve ancestral practices.

First electric school boat will benefit more than 21 students of Bahía Málaga, Colombia

Electro mobility can be an option for remote regions, particularly those with limted or constrained access to energy supply and those where energy costs are excessive. An example for such a setting are the remte settlements along in the mangroves alonge the Pacific Coast of Colombia.