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Four Siemens 1200 kW electric motors power world’s largest truck; all-wheel drive

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BelAZ (based in Belarus) wanted this to not only be the biggest truck in the world but also to carry 25% more payload than the world’s biggest dump truck at the time. It weighs 360 tons when empty and can transport around 450 tonnes of cargo, a volume that corresponds to a fully loaded Airbus A380 airplane. Click to enlarge.

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UNECE Adopts Type Approval for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles’ Electric Safety Requirements; Applies in 41 Countries

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100 includes the 27 Member States of the European Union, the European Union itself, as well as Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Norway, Russian Federation, Serbia, Switzerland, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tunisia and Turkey.

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Opinion: Ukraine’s Next Crisis? Economic [and energy] Disaster

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This has led to an electricity crisis that can only be staunched by cutting domestic production along with exports to Europe, Crimea, and Belarus—or worse, getting more imports from Russia. The Ukrainian military’s showdown with separatists in the industrial east has forced coal mines to severely cut production or close down entirely.

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European consortium investigating graphene-based materials for lightweight cars; energy-efficient and safe vehicles

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The 66 new partners come from 19 countries, six of which are new to the consortium: Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary and Israel. While most partners are universities and research institutes, the share of companies, mainly SMEs, involved is increasing.

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Elon Musk has provided 12,000 Starlink dishes to Ukraine

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The 1994 agreement ensured that the sovereignty and national borders of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan would be respected. The Russian president most likely made the assumption when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hinted that he would withdraw from the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. Ukraine destroyed the rest of the weapons.

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Biofuels to help clean up Chernobyl land

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The Belarus government has teamed up with Irish firm Greenfield to build one of Europe’s largest bioethanol plants which would convert crops grown on contaminated land into fuel. Tags: Biofuels Belarus bio-ethanol biofuel Chernobyl crop Edie Greenfield plant. According to online resource, the Environmental Data [.].

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Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr

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Therefore, together we try to fight fake information, even as we fight fear from sirens, from roadblocks, from military equipment, from the sound of explosions… The main thing I want to achieve is to inform all my acquaintances in Russia and Belarus about what is happening in Ukraine.

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