Articulos y Publicaciones

9 de marzo - 2020

En Santa Bárbara de Iscuandé no existen otros modos de transporte distintos a los acuáticos fluviales y la economía depende en buena medida de la pesca o de la recolección de pianguas, una actividad por la cual son reconocidas las mujeres del municipio. La movilidad eléctrica, ha insistido el profesor Wilmsmeier, puede ser una solución para mejorar la calidad de vida de personas que viven en esta región y puede ayudarles a preservar costumbres artesanales de una manera sostenible.

4 de septiembre - 2019

Cuatro botes en Santa Bárbara de Iscuandé, en Nariño, son impulsados por baterías. Gracias a ello, 25 mujeres que cazan piangua no gastan en combustible ni reman extensamente. Detrás de eso hay una década de esfuerzos a manos de un alemán.

Julio - 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.

5 de febrero - 2020

The use of motor power is significantly impacting the environment, polluting of air and water sources. More importantly, for these women and men motorization also represents a very costly trade-off between the possibility to perform their economic activity for a small revenue or not performing the activity at all due to the increase in burden of fuel costs. 

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

2 de marzo - 2019 

An improved mobility concept with a greater geographical reach, which allows for rotating harvesting areas, and that is decoupled from fossil fuel use, can be expected to improve the sustainability of these economic activities. The proposed e-mobility concept is expected to improve working conditions and harvesting strategies, to reduce and avoid further expansion of the motorisation of the fishing fleet, and to contribute to building new sustainable supply chains in the region.

15 de octubre - 2018 

Electromobility is usually associated with urban areas and land transport, but only seldomly as a nautical mobility option for economic activitives in rural coastal areas. The School of Managment at Universidad de los Andes in collaboration with its partners (AUNAP, Torqeedo, WWF) is currently evaluating the technical feasibility, analysing business models and calculating the environmental and social benefits of converting different transport activities towards electromobility.

Hard work, meager wages - and now relief: Colombian fisherwomen have changed their working lives with electric motors