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Study calls for reduction in car ownership, battery size and vehicle dependency to limit environmental impact of surging lithium demand

Green Car Congress

The authors designed a material flow analysis paired with socioeconomic pathway modeling to determine possible scenarios for the decarbonization of personal transportation in the US. The authors examined four cases of lithium mining: Argentina, Chile, the United States, and Portugal. Riofrancos et al. 2°C of warming.

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Mercedes-Benz Vans shows pickup truck concepts; market launch in late 2017; diesel V6

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The key markets will be Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia with New Zealand, and Europe. The double cab has emerged as the dominating body style because it offers room for up to five persons. The X-Class for the Latin American market will roll off the assembly lines at the Renault plant in Cordoba, Argentina, starting in 2018.

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Survey Shows Overwhelming Interest in a Four-Day Workweek

Cars That Think

“It will minimize the time needed to be in-person at work.” Increasing productivity with a shorter workweek Dante Medina is an electrical and electronics engineering specialist at Mercedes-Benz Argentina. Employees have to be available three days a week, whether in person or virtually, to do some core activities, he says.

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

Green Car Congress

Gridded street networks, on the other hand, promote efficient, dense urban form in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru. Their data showed that southeast Asia is now home to some of the most sprawling cities on the planet – —and sprawl is getting worse.

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Daimler & Renault-Nissan Alliance expand cooperation to 1-ton pickup trucks

Green Car Congress

The pickup will feature a double cab and will be targeted both at personal-use and commercial customers. The Mercedes-Benz 1-ton pickup truck will be built by Nissan in the Renault plant in Cordoba, Argentina, along with the Nissan NP300 and the Renault 1-ton truck, for Latin America.

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3-Year Cruise Passengers Seek Fraud Charges Over Cancellation

Baua Electric

By now, they were supposed to be well into the first leg of the three-year Life at Sea cruise , sailing from Ushuaia, Argentina, to Punta Arenas in Chilean Patagonia. He offered to pay her part of the sum in person, in cash, but has yet to set up a time and place to meet. Youssef finally spoke to him on Jan.

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Is standard lithium LTD a sham?

EV Info

The firm holds lithium resources across Australia, Argentina, and Mexico and has over 4,844 employees. The company’s flagship project is the Salar de Olaroz lithium-potassium brine project located in the province of Jujuy in northwest Argentina. It reported a revenue of 2020 $839.26 m in 2020, almost double the $432.11