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Bolivia’s sole electric car maker is taking a very different approach than the bigger guys

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Bolivia only has one electric car manufacturer and it’s hard to compare it to the bigger competition. But that’s likely by design, because La Paz-based Quantum Motors is building tiny electric cars built for just three passengers.

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Bolivian-German lithium extraction project takes major step forward; YLB partners with ACISA

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machinery to establish a value-added chain in Bolivia in the mid-term, from. and 1,000 direct jobs and up to 10,000 indirect jobs in Bolivia in areas. will also be responsible for designing the technical and economic. Uyuni in the Bolivian Andes is the world's largest known lithium deposit— around ten million tons.

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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Gridded street networks, on the other hand, promote efficient, dense urban form in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru. Barrington-Leigh said urban planners thus need to think about connectivity at the most local scale when designing and planning new streets in order to make cities more sustainable.

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GM Creates New South America Regional Organization

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GM South America includes GM’s existing sales and manufacturing operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela as well as sales activities in those countries and Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. GM South America currently has 29,000 employees.

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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

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Below are eight highlights adapted from my book “Hot Springs” — from an onsen in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, to a set of high-altitude pools near Mount Sajama, in Bolivia. Designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, the complex was built from 60,000 slabs of locally sourced quartzite.

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GM leads $50M funding round in EnergyX; advanced lithium extraction and refining technology

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—Teague Egan, CEO, EnergyX In 2022, EnergyX became the first firm to design, build and commission an in-field pilot plant in the Lithium Triangle (Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia), which encompasses more than 65% of the known global lithium reserves.

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Volkswagen ID.4 GTX with LGES batteries sets Guinness World Record for EVs

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The world-record driver drove up the dormant Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia, reaching 5,816 meters in altitude. On May 23, 2022, Zietlow and his team were awarded an official Guinness World Records certificate for the highest altitude achieved in an electric vehicle in La Paz, Bolivia. . Zietlow and his crew used a Volkswagen ID.4

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