Green Car Congress
MARCH 20, 2018
Toyota unveiled a prototype hybrid flexible-fuel vehicle (Hybrid FFV) during an event Toyota held São Paulo, Brazil. Stakeholders including the state government, universities, and the sugarcane association (the Sugarcane Industry Union: UNICA) attended the event.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Conigital , a UK-based driverless vehicle company with operations in Australia, Brazil, and India, said it has secured an offer of £500 million (US$626 million) in Series A+ funding. Conigital also has strategic academic alliances with institutions including Coventry University, University of Essex and Queensland University of Technology.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 19, 2011
A new study led by Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology has found that the expansion of sugarcane crop in Brazil in areas previously occupied by other Brazilian crops cools the local climate. The work was made possible through the support of the Stanford University Global Climate and Energy Project. —Greg Asner.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 22, 2021
The researchers say this highlights the long-term persistence of contaminants introduced by human activities in the environment. The findings from the London study are in line with results from similar studies we conducted in Sao Paolo, Brazil and raise questions about long-term lead contamination in other megacities worldwide.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 4, 2022
A study by three French institutes—Ifremer, the University of Bordeaux and the IRD (a public research institution)—has found that the surface water of the Atlantic Ocean is twice as polluted by cellulose fibers as it is by microplastics. —Christophe Maes.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 27, 2018
The setting gave scientists the rare opportunity to look at the impact of pollution on atmospheric processes in a largely pre-industrial environment and pinpoint the effects of the particles apart from other factors such as temperature and humidity. Jiwen Fan, Daniel Rosenfeld, Yuwei Zhang, Scott E. Giangrande, Zhanqing Li, Luiz A.T.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 7, 2021
Pearl River Delta (PRD) and Beijing in China, São Paulo in Brazil). Credit: The University of Hong Kong. Due to the rapid economic growth in the study period, China invested a large amount of resources into infrastructure construction for advancing the urban living environment. New York in US, Tokyo in Japan).
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