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The launch of Power2Drive South America Exhibition and Conference 2024 – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

For this reason, the topic of e-mobility has received increasing attention from exhibitors and visitors of The smarter E South America and has been promoted at the Special Exhibition Power2Drive as part of the ees South America exhibition and the accompanying program since 2019.

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2011 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas Adds PHEVs

Green Car Congress

The 2011 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas—a challenge for high school, university, and college students from across North and South America to design vehicles to go the farthest distance using the least amount of energy—has expanded its categories to include plug-in electric vehicles (PHEVs).

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Grand Prize Combustion-Engine Winner at 2009 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas Achieves 2,757.1 MPG

Green Car Congress

More than 500 students in 44 participating teams participated in the event, a challenge for students to design, build and test fuel-efficient vehicles that travel the farthest distance using the least amount of fuel. The UrbanConcept entries included two vehicles powered by combustion engines and one by solar power. Solar Power.

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Best EV To Own To Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?

My Energi

There would have to be an apocalyptic event for Teddy’s Bar to close its doors and even then you’d expect to walk past and hear somebody inebriated on the Karaoke singing “I did it my way” pre 12am. These are strange times, perhaps the strangest of times. Life as we know it has come to an almost complete standstill.

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Study Finds Unexpected Decadal Decline in Global Evapotranspiration, Links It to Moisture Limitation in Southern Hemisphere

Green Car Congress

The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, according to the first major study of evapotranspiration on a global basis. Data indeed show that some areas are wetter than they used to be.

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Climate Expert: Don't Call It Geoengineering

Cars That Think

So, we focus significant energy on solar climate intervention, or sunlight reflection. In almost all previous projections for climate, tipping events like these were far in the future. But we focus on it less, because we've opted to focus on approaches that are likely to be most rapid and most likely to help address near-term risks.

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Space Station Incident Demands Independent Investigation

Cars That Think

The football-field-sized array of pressurized modules, support girders, solar arrays, radiator panels, robotic arms, and other mechanisms was designed to operate in a weightless environment. The bureaucratic instinct to minimize the described potential severity of the event needs cold-blooded assessment.

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