{"id":43952,"date":"2021-07-20T09:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/volkswagen-testing-prototype-of-e-tractor-in-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T09:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:28:41","slug":"volkswagen-testing-prototype-of-e-tractor-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/volkswagen-testing-prototype-of-e-tractor-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen tests prototype of e-tractor in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herbert Diess, the Board Chairman of Volkswagen Group who also enjoyed a test-drive has revealed that the e-tractor being tested is \u2018working very well\u2019.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have launched the conservation agriculture project Gen.Farm: a sustainable CO2-free hub where farmers can book an e-tractor including a trained driver,\u201d said Diess. <\/p>\n<p>The tractors have batteries powered by solar energy.  <\/p>\n<p>With a team of Rwandans, South Africans and Germans, the pilot phase in Rwanda is being implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the University of Rwanda (UR) through its College of Science and Technology.  <\/p>\n<p>The tractor can be used for different purposes from soil preparation to harvesting.  <\/p>\n<p>Headquartered in Germany, Volkswagen Group is one of the world\u2019s leading manufacturers of automobiles and commercial vehicles and the largest car maker in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The latter launched car assembling plant in Rwanda in 2018.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38942 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/etractor.jpg\" alt=\"Herbert Diess, the Board Chairman of Volkswagen Group who also enjoyed a test-drive has revealed that the e-tractor being tested is \u2018working very well\u2019.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Volkswagen Rwanda has started the pilot phase of electric tractors using solar power in Bugesera district, Eastern Province.}  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43952"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43952"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}