Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2012

Pike Research forecasts that the global market for all electric-drive buses—including hybrid, battery electric, and fuel cell buses—grow steadily over the next. The Latin American market will be driven largely by uptake in Brazil, but other countries will also spur adoption, notably Uruguay which recently indicated it.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

United States, Brazil, and Europe—at 34.6 mostly to expansion in developing markets and relatively mature bioenergy markets such as Brazil, advanced biorefinery capacity growth will jump to 31 BGY by 2022. thermochemical and hybrid conversion pathways are expected to increase over the remainder of the forecast period.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Encouraging growth in Brazil during the first half of the year has dissipated, even as the Industrial Products Tax (IPI) holiday winds down in October. Stimulus measures such as lowered interest rates are offset by tighter credit restrictions in lending, restraining the full-year 2013 sales forecast to approximately 1.3% South America.

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