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
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.
FIRST SOLAR POWERED CHARGING STATION FOR ELECTRIC BOATS IN NARIÑO, COLOMBIA
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.
PILOTING WATERBORNE ELECTROMOBILITY WITH PIANGUERAS IN NARIÑO, 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.
WATERBORNE ELECTROMOBILITY: EVALUATING POTENTIALS AND IMPRESSIONS FROM COLOMBIA
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.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND FLUVIAL ELECTRIC MOBILITY: SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR THE AMAZON
2017
River electric mobility can be an important part of the solution to the complexity of moving through short and medium stretches in the Amazon. The policy takes a transdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to river mobility considering the way in which economic, social and environmental issues are intertwined, creating a space for the search for concrete solutions to local and global problems.
THE MUSSEL FISHERWOMEN IN NARIÑO, COLOMBIA
Hard work, meager wages - and now relief: Colombian fisherwomen have changed their working lives with electric motors
