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Ford building new $1.6B plant in Mexico for small cars

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billion in a new small car plant in Mexico, building a new manufacturing site in San Luis Potosi State. Vehicles produced in Mexico also serve customers in the US, Canada, China, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and South Korea. Ford is investing US$1.6 Construction begins this summer.

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Iveco Electric Daily Prototype Begins Testing in Brazil

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The project builds on Iveco’s long-running research and development of electric propulsion, which started with the development of the first Daily with pure electric drive in 1986. Click to enlarge. This system gives the vehicle a range of 100 km (62 miles) and a fully laden top speed of 70 km/h (43.5

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Shell contracts with ECB Group for more than 2.5 billion liters of renewable diesel and jet

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ECB Group Paraguay and Shell Trading (US) Company signed a multi-year contract that will provide more than 500 million liters (130 million gallons US) of renewable diesel and renewable jet fuel per year to Shell, one of the world’s largest energy companies. The contract is expected to run from 2024.

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Iveco brings electric prototype to Brazil

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The project marks collaboration between Iveco and Itaipu Binacional, an organisation that manages the largest hydroelectric generating station in the world on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. The vehicle also includes an energy recovery system similar to the KERS used in Formula 1.

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Lancet Series: Improving road safety measures could save half a million lives every year worldwide

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The largest increases in transport injury death rate have been in Paraguay (+97%), Djibouti (+69%), Lesotho (+50%), and the Seychelles (+41%). These include building a stronger global movement on road safety that incorporates other health and environmental impacts in the solutions (e.g., a year between 1990 and 2010.

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