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

Baua Electric

Electric vehicle trend picks up in Brazil The world of mobility is part of a system of tightly knit sectors: The key to powering our mobile lives is the smart combination of photovoltaics (PV), storage and e-mobility. Conference times: 9:00a.m. The smarter E South America 2023 Date: August 29 -31, 2023 Exhibition times: 12:00p.m.

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4th International Conference on Biofuels Standards: current issues, future trends

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Brazil, EU and the US are the three largest producers of biofuels; other countries where biofuel production and utilization is increasing are also expected to participate in this conference.

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Volvo Begins Trials of Hybrid Buses in Brazil and Mexico

Green Car Congress

Volvo Buses has begun trials of its hybrid drive buses in South Brazil and Mexico. For the past few days, the first hybrid bus has been operating in test traffic in Curitiba, Brazil, in collaboration with URBS, the company responsible for local traffic in the city. Earlier post.)

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India, China, Brazil, Japan, other non-Arctic countries want a voice on Arctic Council; interest in climate change impact and access to resources

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Countries such as China, India and Brazil, which have no Arctic territories, are now seeking admission to the Arctic Council as permanent observers. The issue features prominently on the agenda of The 2 nd annual Munk-Gordon Arctic Security Conference on the future of the Arctic Council, 17-18 January in Toronto.

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Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus announces partners for first series-produced electric truck: 14t e-Delivery

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VWCO announced the formation of the e-Consortium at a press conference at the Fenatran Trade Show on 13 October. And this involves, for example, analyzing and installing recharging terminals in customers’ garages anywhere in Brazil. Partners are Bosch, CATL, Moura, Semcon, Siemens, Weg, Meritor and Eletra.

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Petrobras CEO says company will grow production to 5.7 mboe/day by 2020

Green Car Congress

Speaking at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston , Petrobras CEO Maria das Graças Silva Foster said that the Brazilian oil and gas company’s reserves will double in size by 2020. We (Petrobras) have made 53 discoveries in Brazil during the last 14 months. Production, which was 2.2 Production, which was 2.2

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Renewables to overtake coal as largest global electricity source in 2025

Teslarati

During the COP28 climate conference held in Dubai last month, world leaders from over 130 national governments agreed to set a goal to triple world renewable energy installations by 2030. Last year, China commissioned as much solar PV as the entire world did in 2022, while the country’s wind power increased 66 percent year over year.

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