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Volkswagen brand to invest €1B by 2026 in South America; targeting 40% growth in Brazil

Green Car Congress

The Volkswagen brand aims to make significant gains in South America with a major product offensive. 4 are coming to Brazil As a fast-growing car market, South America is of strategic importance to Volkswagen. To this end, we are investing one billion euros in South America by 2026. and the ID.

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TWAICE and pepper partner for full battery transparency in retrofitted commercial vehicles

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The vehicles will be delivered primarily in Europe, North and South America. We can use the software not only to analyze the aging process of batteries, but also to derive value-linked different life cycles and usage scenarios that are valuable for our customers and our product development.

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Volkswagen Group and Tata Motors Ltd. to explore strategic alliance for joint development projects; ŠKODA to lead

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In the long term, the Volkswagen Group is looking to further expand its product portfolio in the fast-growing emerging markets. By offering the appropriate products we intend to achieve sustainable and profitable growth in very different parts of the world. in what would become Czechoslovakia in 1918.

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China realizes charging piles, complete vehicles and accessories to go overseas

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Judging from the customs data for the first eight months of this year, the contribution rate of my country’s new energy vehicle exports to the growth of automobile exports reached 26.7%, becoming a new bright spot in the foreign trade of the automobile industry. Demand for charging piles soars. of the total export volume.

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IEA technology and policy reports outline paths to halving fuel used for combustion-engined road transport in less than 40 years

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Internationally co-ordinated programmes involving governments and automobile manufacturers will help trigger a faster development and uptake of new technologies in the 2020 time frame and beyond. Europe, South Asia, South America, etc.). Increase international collaboration on fuel economy.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil. The government assisted the shift by giving sugar companies subsidized loans to build ethanol plants, as well as guaranteeing prices for their ethanol products.

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Cellulosic nanocrystals from biomass waste for thermoplastics for automotive applications

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Scientists in Brazil are studying the production and incorporation of cellulosic nanocrystals (also known as cellulose whiskers) derived from several sources such as pineapple, curaua, banana and coir into thermoplastics matrix composites for automotive applications. Cellulose nanocrystals are the crystalline domains of cellulosic sources.

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