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MARCH 21, 2013

ArcelorMittal Vega in Brazil has completed a US$10-million investment to install a new post-treatment technology on its galvanizing line #1. ArcelorMittal Vega supplies its steels to the leading vehicle manufacturers, including Honda, Renault-Nissan, Fiat, General Motors, PSA, as well as steels that are used in some parts of Daimler’s trucks.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

FNM opened its EV factory inside Agrale’s manufacturing facility in Caxias do Sul city in southeast Brazil. The Wallbox is connected to 380-volt charger inside Ambev’s distribution centers, which are located all over Brazil and already operate with solar power. FNM was formed in late 2019 and has its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

(JAC) shipped 500 ethanol-powered cars to Brazil at the end of December, the first batch resulting from a deal signed in August with Brazilian dealer SHC to export 620,000 units to Brazil over the next ten years. Brazil is the fourth largest auto market, and is growing rapidly.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

and Sygma Motors - Engenharia, Indústria E Comércio de Motores Ltda of Brazil are collaborating on two engineering programs in Brazil, with Vale Solutions in Energy (VSE) as the end customer. ” —Marcos Langeani, Sygma Motors co-founder and Managing Director. Orbital Corporation Ltd.

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JUNE 18, 2023

The headquarters, located at Nidec Motor Corporation (NMC) in St. Louis, Missouri will be supported by both companies’ existing industrial footprint in Brazil and Mexico. Nidec Aerospace will be jointly owned, with Nidec owning a 51% share and Embraer the remaining 49%.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Nissan Motor Co., The Brazilian factory, scheduled to begin production in the first half of 2014, will have the capacity to produce up to 200,000 units annually of Nissan’s ‘V’ platform products for sale in Brazil. —Carlos Ghosn, chairman and CEO, Nissan Motor Co, Ltd. plans to invest 2.6 billion BRL (US$1.4

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Hyundai Motor Company announced a new roadmap—Strategy 2025—intended to secure its position as a frontrunner in the future mobility industry. Hyundai Motor will develop an Urban Air Mobility (UAM) platform business by combining Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) and mobility services.

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APRIL 12, 2018

Hino Motors, Ltd. We are delighted to enter into the SCFA with Hino Motors as we are teaming up with one of the leading truck and bus companies, whose presence is especially strong in Asia. Hino Motors invented the company slogan ‘Trucks and Busses that do more’. —Yoshio Shimo, President & CEO of Hino Motors, Ltd.

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JUNE 17, 2011

Mazda Motor Corporation has signed formal agreements and begun preparations to establish a Mazda vehicle production facility in Mexico and a sales company in Brazil, in alliance with Sumitomo Corporation. Between 2005 and 2010, new car demand in Brazil doubled to approximately 3.5 million units.

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JULY 16, 2009

General Motors Brazil will invest R$2 billion (US$1.033 billion) to launch a new Chevrolet line of vehicles and to expand its plant in Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul. The investment is the largest made by the company in its 84 years in Brazil. The remaining $600 million will flow to GM’s other operations in Brazil.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At the Paris Motor Show, Peugeot is presenting the 2008 Concept, a B-Segment follow up to the Urban Crossover Concept it introduced in Beijing earlier this year. 3-cylinder turbocharged direct injection engine developing 100 bhp (75 kW). Peugeot has sold more than 15 million ‘2’ series compact vehicles.

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APRIL 28, 2018

US fuel ethanol was exported to 35 countries in 2017, but more than half of all exported fuel ethanol went to Brazil and Canada. In the United States, ethanol is primarily used as a blending component in the production of motor gasoline and is mainly blended in volumes up to 10% ethanol (E10).

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AUGUST 27, 2018

Brazil-based Ambev Brewery, owner of brands such as Skol, Brahma, Antarctica and Guaraná, announced that by 2023, it will use 1,600 electric trucks made by Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus (VWCO) to transport beverages. VWCO will produce the VW e-Delivery along with its partners in the Modular Consortium, at the plant in Resende, Brazil.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Kia Motors has introduced its new fuel-efficient, ethanol-gasoline powered Soul Flex at the 26 th Salao Internacional do Automovel, in São Paulo, Brazil. Kia Motors will begin exporting Soul Flex to Brazil this month, with the new models going on sale at Kia dealerships early next year.

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JUNE 7, 2023

Chile, Brazil, US, and China, while the second patent has recently been filed and is pending approval. In addition, the mining activities do not require the use of explosives nor the need to crush and milling the ionic clay feedstock, resulting in an operation with a very low carbon footprint.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

Unveiled at the Sao Paulo Motor Show currently underway in Brazil. Among its portfolio of worldwide brands there are very few shapes and sizes not yet explored, and the Volkswagen Taigun Concept adds a compact crossover to the list.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

And this involves, for example, analyzing and installing recharging terminals in customers’ garages anywhere in Brazil. The first truck developed in Brazil to go into series production in 2020 is the 14 ton e-Delivery, designed in the 6x2 configuration.

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JULY 28, 2015

General Motors and SAIC Motor are enhancing their partnership through an agreement jointly to develop the core architecture and engine of a new vehicle family targeting global growth markets. —General Motors President Dan Ammann. GM’s Chevrolet brand will invest $5 billion in the development of the all-new vehicle family.

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MARCH 31, 2024

The announcement coincided with the automaker’s participation in the ongoing 45th Bangkok International Motor Show, which is being held from March 27 – April 7, 2024. BYD showcased its entire brand portfolio — including BYD, Yangwang, Fang Cheng Bao, and Denza — at the 45th Bangkok International Motor Show.

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MAY 10, 2019

Today, Klein says, Brazil, Canada, China, the EU, India, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and the US have established fuel economy or GHG emission standards for light-duty vehicles (LDVs). Many of these countries are in Africa where urbanization, motorization, vehicle miles traveled and oil demand are increasing.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Nissan unveiled the Frontier Sentinel, a concept pickup truck designed by Nissan Brazil’s styling studio, at the 2018 São Paulo Motor Show. The new Nissan LEAF is now available through a pre-sale program in Brazil, Chile and Colombia. The concept is designed for rescue missions in all types of Brazilian terrain.

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MAY 12, 2021

The CP hydrogen-powered locomotive pioneering project, first announced in December 2020, will retrofit a line-haul diesel freight locomotive with hydrogen fuel cells and Leclanché's European-manufactured lithium-ion batteries to power the locomotive's electric traction motors. —Anil Srivastava, CEO, Leclanché.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

in Brazil from their mine and processing facility. The fully-integrated Facility is expected to be operational by mid-2024. In July 2021, SRC procured up to 800 tonnes of monazite concentrate from Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB), S.A., SRC continues to source additional preconcentrated monazite globally prior to the MPU commissioning.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

29) has adopted three new regulations to improve the safety and environmental performance of motor vehicles. The new regulations are: A new global technical regulation (UN GTR – 1998 Agreement) to improve the safety of motor vehicles’ occupants in the event of an impact against pole size objects (i.e.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

General Motors provided an image of the new Chevrolet Agile, a small car designed in Brazil and due to launch in that market in October. The Agile is the first model of the Viva family; Project Viva represents a US$400 million investment by GM un Brazil and Argentina. GM began doing business in Brazil in 1925.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2021

Combining Azul’s deep knowledge of the Brazilian market with Lilium’s eVTOL aircraft platform, the companies plan to negotiate the terms for the establishment of a co-branded network in Brazil. The electric jet engines rely on just a single stage rotor/stator system driven by an electric motor.

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APRIL 1, 2014

Fetranspor and Rio Bus, the public transportation companies for the state and city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and BYD launched a BYD battery-electric bus into service this week. Rio is one of the three cities in Brazil to test the BYD electric buses from BYD (São Paulo and Salvador have done successful tests already).

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JANUARY 7, 2012

Geographical distributions of global BC emissions from motor vehicles in 1976 (A) and 2006 (B). Researchers at Peking University have developed a new methodology to model black carbon (BC) emissions from diesel and gasoline motor vehicles. It was predicted that global BC emissions from motor vehicles might reach 1,025?1,754

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Ballard Power Systems has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with WEG Industries (Brazil), a multinational corporation headquartered in Jaragua do Sul, Brazil, to collaborate on product and market development of fuel cell products.

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JUNE 1, 2023

The growing adoption of electric cars in Europe is leading to an increase in the use of the critical metals required for components such as electric motors and electronics. The EU is heavily dependent on imports of these metals because extraction is concentrated in a few countries such as China, South Africa and Brazil.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

In Brazil, Nissan Motor revealed the first Solid Oxide Fuel-Cell (SOFC)-powered prototype vehicle that runs on bio-ethanol electric power. Nissan will conduct further field tests on public roads in Brazil using the prototype. Research and development of the e-Bio Fuel-Cell was announced by Nissan in June in Yokohama.

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APRIL 18, 2017

Toyota Motor Corporation will send two Mirai fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to China in October 2017 to conduct demonstration tests in the country. Coinciding with the start of these tests, Toyota will also establish a hydrogen station at TMEC (Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing China), its Chinese research and development base.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The model, called the Soul Flex, has been unveiled at the Brazilian Motor Show in São Paulo and is scheduled to go on sale in Brazil early next year. Tags: Biofuels Kia Brazilian Motor Show Flexible Fuel Vehicel Sao Paulo Soul FLex. Kia is to launch a new flex-fuel model of its popular crossover Soul model.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 10, 2015

The topic of Tesla Motors and its direct-sales model continues to roil state legislatures, with bills for and against the practice under debate in several states. Green Dealership NADA Tesla Motors dealers plug-in cars sales state laws' Green Dealership NADA Tesla Motors dealers plug-in cars sales state laws'

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MAY 10, 2017

Wrightspeed is rapidly expands its supply chain team, bringing on experts with experience at Tesla Motors, Ford, Cummins, and others to meet strong demand for new powertrain technology. Wrightspeed’s Geared Traction Drive, fitted to a custom AxleTech International drive axle, provides high-power electric drive and regenerative braking.

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MARCH 31, 2024

The proposed hydrogen scooter has a range of 50 kilometres and will use an external electrolyser to charge the on-board fuel cell, which powers the motor. “That tank is powering the hydrogen fuel cell, which gives the battery power and then it runs the motor,” he added while elaborating on the technology.

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JUNE 11, 2018

We first reached the 10-million-vehicle level in the world in 1920, about 34 years after the first motor vehicle appeared on the road. motorization rate to estimate the number of vehicles in the world in 2050 is not realistic. in Brazil.). The next 10-fold increase took an additional 44 years. Applying the current U.S.

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