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| - | For many drivers in Cotonou, electric motorcycles are more a question of cost than pollution<br> Beninese hairdresser Edwige Govi makes a point these days of using electric motorbike taxis to get around Cotonou, saying she enjoys a ride that is quiet and clean.<br> Motorcycle taxis are a popular and cheap form of transportation in West Africa.<br> But in Benin and Togo, electric models are gaining the ascendancy over petrol-powered rivals.<br> Customers are plumping for environmentally-friendlier travel and taxi drivers are switching to machines that, above all, are less expensive to buy and operate.<br> "They are very quiet and do not give off smoke," says Govi, 26, who had just completed a half-hour run across Benin's economic hub.<br> In African cities, road pollution is becoming a major health and environment issue, although for taxi drivers, the big attraction of electric motorcycles is the cost.<br> "I manage to get by," said Govi's driver, Octave, wearing the green and yellow vest used by Benin's zemidjan taxis -- a word meaning "take me quickly" in the local Fon language.<br> "I make more money than with my fuel motorcycle."<br> In Cotonou, two companies have been offering electric models for a few months and both say they are overwhelmed by demand<br> Local environmentalist Murielle Hozanhekpon said the electric motorbikes do have some disadvantages "but not on an environmental level".<br> Alain Tossounon, a journalist specialising in environmental issues, said electric bikes were prized by taxi drivers as they were less expensive to maintain or run.<br> The cost factor has become more and more important in the face of an explosion of fuel prices this year triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.<br> - Credit carrot -<br> In Benin, an electric motorcycle costs 480,000 CFA ($737 / euros) against 490,050 CFA ($752 / euros) for a petrol-driven equivalent.<br> But this significant price difference is only one factor which explains the trend towards "silent motorcycles," said Tossounon.<br> Many taxi drivers are also lured by flexible credit deals -- instead of making a hefty one-off purchase, many are able to get loans that they pay off monthly, weekly or even daily.<br> Two companies in Cotonou have been offering electric models and say they are overwhelmed by demand.<br> To attract more customers, Zed-Motors offers solar panels to facilitate recharging for those without electricity at home<br> "The queue here is from morning to evening. Every hour, at least two roll out of the shop," said vendor Anicet Takalodjou.<br> Oloufounmi Koucoi, 38, director of another company delivering the models to Cotonou, said they had put thousands of e-motorcycles in circulation.<br> "The number is growing every day."<br> By assembling the motorcycles locally in Benin, his electric models are cheaper than if they had been imported.<br> To attract customers, his company, Zed-Motors, offers solar panels to facilitate recharging for those who do not have electricity at home.<br> For decades, Benin and its economy have struggled with power cuts.<br><br>The situation has improved, but outages remain common.<br> In rural areas, especially, electricity remains largely inaccessible.<br> - Battery change -<br> In Lome, capital of neighbouring Togo, Octave de Souza parades proudly through the streets on his brand-new green electric motorcycle.<br> Rechargeable batteries used by electric motorcycle drivers are charged in a store in Cotonou<br> One point in particular makes him and his wallet happy: no more fuelling up.<br> "All you need to do is change the battery," he smiled.<br><br>"There are sales outlets, you go there and it's exchanged for you."<br> A recharge costs 1,000 CFA ($1.50 / euros) and can provide three days' mobility. 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ATHENS, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Helleniq Energy will start a process to acquire more advanced data for potential gas reserves in two offshore blocks in the Ionian Sea in the coming weeks, its top executive said on Thursday.
A legal loophole allows registered sex offenders to change their name by deed poll. The ploy can help individuals get a new driving licence and passport and even a new, clean, DBS criminal record check to allow them access to children, Labour MP Sarah Champion has warned.
The company has concluded an accelerated 2D seismic campaign for the blocks in the Ionian Sea and was still waiting for the final interpretation, Chief Executive Andreas Shiamishis told an analysts conference.
It will pay an additional interim dividend of 0.25 euros per share based on nine-month financial performance, it said. ($1 = 0.9844 euros) (Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou Editing by David Goodman and Chris Reese)
As part of its push to diversify its business and reach a solar and wind energy capacity of 1 gigawatt by 2026, Helleniq also said it was "in advanced negotiations" to acquire green energy projects via new acquisitions in Greece and abroad.
Greece has had indications of significant gas reserves of around 600 billion cubic metres and earlier this year decided to push ahead with collecting seismic data via survey vessels in areas that potentially carry significant gas reserves including two blocks off Crete.
Her brave sons have all turned 18 and waived their right to anonymity to support their single mother, who is out of prison after four years and now campaigning for a tightening of the rules on sex offenders being allowed to change their names.
Reece added: 'What were they doing letting him out on bail? Let me get four or five more kids".' What would make you think that he's not going to think: "I know I'm going to get caught. I know I'm going to do time.
"But we have enough evidence to convince us to move into the 3D phase which will start in the next few weeks," he said, after Helleniq reported a leap in third-quarter profit thanks to robust refining margins and exports.
From here, the midway point, travellers could take a spectacular trip down to Volos on a narrow-gauge rail track built more than a century ago by the father of the surrealist painter Giorgio de chirico. Sadly, the line had just shut down at the end of the summer when I arrived, and I never had the chance to peek from the train's windows at the mythic mountain cave of chiron the centaur, tutor to Hercules and Achille
The mother of five was also filmed sobbing outside the flat where she stabbed her victim, saying: 'He took everything from me. Still to this day there are no words to describe how it eats you up from the inside.
And the region possesses some glorious churches, hidden away within its mountain stronghold They're worth it for the sake of the beauties that lie hidden away in the churches and monasteries of these remote villages. The Pelion is only a few hours' drive from one of Greece's most astonishing treasures: the monasteries of the Meteora, perched on sheer spikes of rock that rise from a desolate plain.
Those babies, they are not going to wake up one day and this hasn't happened. I'm never going to be able to take it away from them when they're screaming in the night. 'He ruined my life and he tried to take away the most precious thing in my life.
But it's easy to get accustomed to dicing with death when you're on the road to heaven, and by the end of my visit my driving was almost nonchalan I've never encountered roads more tortuous in their twists, or more lacking in barriers to protect the unwary driver from a drop into the void.
I looked up at the handsome walls of the archontiko to its prettily arched casement windows. Unwillingly, I registered the broken shutters, the absence of guttering or pipes, the last remaining fragment of a graceful balcony that must once have stretched the length of the front facad
One of her boys, Bradley, admitted that he had immediately thought 'hats off' to her when he learned she had stabbed Pleasted to death. His twin siblings said they felt 'safer' after he was killed. Reece, then aged 11, said it was 'nice knowing that he was dead'.
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