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BYD partners with local bank to provide auto financing in Brazil

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The post BYD partners with local bank to provide auto financing in Brazil appeared first on CnEVPost. BYD, which officially entered the Brazilian passenger car market last December, expects to have a presence in 45 cities in the country by the end of this year. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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Amyris secures $42.25M financing, begins Biofene production in Brazil

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In addition, Amyris announced its purpose-built industrial fermentation facility in Brazil has successfully begun production of Biofene, Amyris’s brand of renewable farnesene. Renewable chemicals and fuels company Amyris, Inc. has completed a $42.25 million private placement of its common stock.

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Sigma Lithium begins construction of foundation and infrastructure for lithium production plant in Brazil

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Canada-based Sigma Lithium Corporation ( earlier post ) has begun construction on site to build the foundation and infrastructure installation of its greentech dense media separation production plant, at its wholly owned Grota do Cirilo project in Brazil.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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Inflows to clean energy projects in India and Brazil slipped $2.4 Excluding China, India and Brazil, clean energy investment jumped to $34 billion in 2018 from $30 billion in 2017. The rest of the top five included Chile, Brazil, China, and Kenya, in that order. The decline was not confined to China, however. billion and $2.7

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VTT involved in developing cellulose-based ethanol production in Brazil

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is bringing its expertise as a developer of biomass processing technology to Brazil. VTT’s research center in Brazil has been granted BRL 10 million (about US$4.9 VTT acts as Odebrecht’s research partner, tasked with developing the technology used in the company’s processes.

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Ceres awarded Brazil government loan and grant to enhance sorghum and sugarcane development programs

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an agricultural biotechnology and seed company, will enhance its product development programs in Brazil and expand its development activities in biotech traits for sorghum and sugarcane over the next four years. Ceres, Inc. , —Paul Kuc, Chief Financial Officer of Ceres. The competitive application process included over 60 proposals.

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Daimler to invest around $457M in the commercial vehicle plants in Brazil over next two years

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The financing will be placed mainly in research and development of new products and innovative technologies, as well as in process optimizations and modernization of the two production plants SĂŁo Bernardo do Campo (Federal State SĂŁo Paulo) and Juiz de Fora (Federal State Minas Gerais). billion Brazilian real (US$1.14 Thus far, around 1.5

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