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BYD wins order for another 406 electric buses in Bogotá, Colombia

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

It has also delivered 64 electric buses to Medellin in 2018, and delivered 470 units for the largest pure electric bus fleet in Colombia in 2020, and won another order for 406 electric buses in Bogotá recently. Globally, BYD’s green transport offerings have spread to more than 300 cities, operating in more than 50 countries and regions.

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BYD wins cumulative order for 1,002 electric buses in Bogotá, Colombia

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2021

BYD has exclusively won cumulative orders to supply 1,002 battery-electric buses to the capital of Colombia, Bogotá. Three of BYD’s global strategic partners finally adopted BYD’s integrated electric bus solutions for their bids and successfully won the tender, totalling 1,002 electric buses. Earlier post.)

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TomTom: Global traffic congestion up; Bengaluru world’s most traffic-congested city

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

Overall, traffic congestion has increased globally during the last decade, and the 239 cities (57%) TomTom included in the new Traffic Index report had increased congestion levels between 2018 and 2019, with only 63 cities showing measurable decreases. Globally, there’s a long road to travel until congestion levels are brought under control.

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BYD to add another 183 electric buses to Santiago’s fleet

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2019

BYD electric buses are servicing markets in many countries across Latin America, including Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Uruguay. Globally, BYD’s pure electric buses, taxi, and other vehicles have spread to more than 300 cities, in more than 50 countries and regions.

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Joy e-bike maker to develop hydrogen scooter, eyes global expansion | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

MARCH 31, 2024

Inquiries are also pouring in from Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Europe, and the Middle East, with the UAE’s recent deployment of electric taxis being a strong indicator of regional market adoption.

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Plug In America joins global alliance

Plug in America

JUNE 10, 2021

Last week, 37 electric vehicle (EV) driver associations from 26 countries, including Plug In America, joined forces to create the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance, building a worldwide EV community. The Alliance released this video to promote awareness of the Alliance. “We We can already see the EV growth; more than 3.24

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Bogotá orders 379 electric buses from BYD

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Along with the 64 pure electric buses in Medellín, Colombia will have a total of 443 BYD electric buses, putting it at the vanguard of Latin America’s rapid push towards public transport electrification. Globally, BYD buses, taxis and other electric vehicles are present in more than 300 cities, 50 countries and regions.

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JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 has already impacted the automotive industry significantly, according to JATO Dynamics, a leading provider of global automotive data and insight. Global vehicle sales totalled 5.55 —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst. million units in March 2020, down by 39% from March 2019. million units.

Europe

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Chevrolet sets first-half global sales record with 2.35M units; 14% growth

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2011

million vehicles globally in the first six months of 2011, the best half-year performance in Chevrolet’s 100-year history. In addition, Chevrolet set record first-half sales in many countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, South Africa, and Turkey. Chevrolet sold 2.35 Click to enlarge.

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The Global Outlook of Electric Vehicles

Blink Charging

APRIL 6, 2023

Needless to say, EV sales are increasing globally. Coming in second is Norway, followed by Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom rounding out the top five countries for EV adoption, according to the most recent version of the Electric Vehicle Country Readiness Index from Ernst & Young Global Ltd.

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

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Mexico is Ford’s fourth-largest vehicle manufacturing site for global customers—behind the US, China and Germany. Vehicles produced in Mexico also serve customers in the US, Canada, China, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and South Korea. billion in Ford facilities alone in the US.

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Global Bioenergy Partnership publishes report on 24 sustainability indicators for bioenergy: electricity, heat and transport

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) has published its report on sustainability indicators for bioenergy. In the meantime, the Partnership is proceeding with piloting projects in Indonesia, Colombia and Ghana. The Global Bioenergy Partnership Sustainability Indicators For Bioenergy. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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11 more GM facilities worldwide go landfill-free; total up to 122

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Colmotores Assembly (Colombia). Colmotores Assembly in Colombia launched awareness campaigns that engaged employees in reducing waste and sorting it correctly. GM’s goal is to achieve 125 landfill-free sites globally by 2020. GM’s new landfill-free facilities include: CAMI Assembly (Canada). Joinville Engine (Brazil).

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Enel enters public transit electrification market in US; partners with MassCEC for electric bus fleet

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Enel is a multinational power company and a leading integrated player in the global power, gas and renewables markets. million kilometers, and with more than 73 million business and household end users globally, the Group has the largest customer base among its European peers.

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Forecast: Global Biofuels Use to Double by 2015, Second-Gen Biofuels to Lag Expectations

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Despite a number of key issues such as land use and competition for feedstocks supplies for traditional food and feed uses, global use of biofuels is excepted to more than double from 2009 to 2015, according to a new global analysis released by Hart Energy Publishing’s Global Biofuels Center (GBC). billion gallons).

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Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

The authors combined a global dataset of ambient NO 2 (modelled from ground-level monitors, satellite data, and land use variables such as road networks) with data on population distribution and asthma incidence to estimate the number of new traffic pollution-related asthma cases in children aged 1-18 years.

Pollution

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Enel acquires eMotorWerks to provide grid balancing solutions and tap into US e-mobility market

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

—Francesco Venturini, Head of Enel’s Global e-Solutions division. Enel is planning to use JuiceNet platform’s functions in all of its EV charging stations globally. Enel has installed around 5,000 charging stations in Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, Chile, Colombia and Argentina.

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Grid Market North America Colombia

GM Creates New South America Regional Organization

Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2010

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. The GM International Operations team is doing a great job expanding our global presence.

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USDA study finds GHG from corn-based ethanol ~39% to 43% lower than from gasoline; reduction of >70% possible by 2022

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2019

Colombia, Japan, Brazil, Canada and the European Union) are developing renewable energy policies that require biofuel substitutes for gasoline to reduce GHG emissions by more than 21%. Most of the new data, emission factors (EFs), and global warming potentials used in this analysis have become available from 2010 to 2015.

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Gasoline Colombia 2010 Emissions

SEAT to launch 6 electric and plug-in hybrid models, develop smaller version of MEB for lower-cost EVs

Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2019

The goal for forthcoming years is to step up the company’s globalization. Latin America is another potential territory for brand expansion, and there are plans to begin operations in Chile in the second half of 2019 and strengthen its presence in Colombia.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid Algeria

This IEEE Service-Learning Program Is More Popular Than Ever

Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2024

EPICS in IEEE has played a key role in expanding the global reach of projects in which engineering students bring their learning and skills to bear in addressing challenges faced by their local communities,” says Leah Jamieson , 2007 IEEE president and a cofounder of EPICS at Purdue, which is in West Lafayette, Ind. “It

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IFQC annual ranking of gasoline sulfur standards sees progress around the world; US drops to 46th

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

A trio of European countries and one from South America made major strides in reducing their levels of sulfur content in gasoline, allowing them to advance in the annual global ranking published by Hart Energy’s International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC). Montenegro leaped 48 slots, from 89 th place in 2010 to 41 st in this year’s ranking.

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Canada Launches Heavy Oil Working Group to Promote Cleaner Fossil Fuels

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

Comprising countries such as Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Venezuela, the Heavy Oil Working Group will collaborate on clean energy research to reduce the impact of fossil fuel development.

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Canada Oil Oil-Sands Cleaner

City of Bogota, Columbia launches electric taxi pilot; part of C40-CCI EV Network

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

The City of Bogota, Colombia, has launched a pilot project to spur the use of electric vehicles in Bogota’s center-city taxi fleet. The first taxis are expected to be operational in the city in the next few months.

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Fairbanks Morse Engine and Achates Power team up on opposed-piston engines

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2013

while meeting the most stringent, global vehicle emissions standards. Achates Power began modernizing opposed-piston engines in 2004, inspired by the record-setting Junkers Jumo 205 diesel aircraft engine. After more than 4,500 hours of dynamometer testing, the company has demonstrated brake thermal efficiency of 47.8%

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Engine Power Powered Colombia

China’s CNOOC to acquire Canada-based Nexen for $15.1B; offshore oil and gas, oil sands, and shale gas

Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2012

Nexen has a joint venture shale gas project in Poland and is exploring for shale gas in Colombia. Nexen will complement CNOOC’s large offshore production footprint in China and extend CNOOC’s global presence with a focused on conventional oil and gas, oil sands and shale gas. Earlier post.).

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Monsanto, BASF Scientists Discover Gene Conferring Drought Tolerance in Corn Plants

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

The announcement comes at a time when recent studies, including one by the US National Academy of Sciences, are warning of declining crop yields and global food shortages as a result of climate change. This product will be the first biotechnology-derived drought-tolerant crop in the world.

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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Professor Jacoby is co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. The study found that there are significant global supplies of conventional gas. Russia, the Middle East, and the US have the highest concentration of global gas reserves. Global markets. Transportation.

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¿Por qué llevar la electromovilidad a sus flotas?

Blink Charging

MARCH 9, 2023

Otro ejemplo, es el de la empresa de paquetería y logística Fedex que desde hace varios años se ha comprometido a tener una flota eléctrica global en la que ha incorporado, tan solo en 2022 200 mil EVs. Colombia también cuenta con descuentos en contribuciones para EV, ya que no aplica el impuesto de energía en la carga de EV.

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Columbia moves into green car era

Green Cars News

APRIL 20, 2009

Further proof, if it were needed, that green cars are a truly global phenomenon, came when engineers in Bucaramanga presented Columbia’s first electric car to a proud audience last weekend. Tags: Green cars Latest news Colombia Columbia Lexion Salamandra.

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GM global sales up 7.6% in 2011 to 9.026M vehicles; China and US largest markets

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2012

global sales rose to more than 9 million vehicles in 2011, a 7.6% of the global vehicle industry. General Motors Global Sales Summary. Total Global. million vehicles around the world in 2011, setting a global sales record. million vehicles around the world in 2011, setting a global sales record. Uzbekistan.

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Study finds economic losses due to health burdens caused by in-car PM2.5 exposure inversely proportional to per capita GDP

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) set out to investigate whether the amount of PM 2.5 Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) set out to investigate whether the amount of PM 2.5 Our global collaborative project has confirmed that air pollution disproportionately affects developing countries.

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Researchers say policies to curb short-lived climate pollutants could yield major health benefits; methane and black carbon

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

the University of British Colombia; the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; the University of York; the United Nations Environment Program; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Colorado State University; the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria; and TERI University in India.

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Climate Pollution Carbon Colombia

Drivers from the world’s poorest cities who keep their windows down are exposed to 80% more air pollution

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

Car users from the world’s least affluent cities are exposed to a disproportionate amount of in-car air pollution because they rely heavily on opening their windows for ventilation, according to a new global study led by researchers at the University of Surrey. In-Car Particulate Matter Exposure across Ten Global Cities.” El-Gendy, A.,

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Pollution Malawi Ethiopia Tanzania

Shell and Sumitomo Corporation invest in LO3 Energy to develop blockchain-based community energy platform

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2019

Shell Ventures and Sumitomo Corporation Group have invested in LO3 Energy to support the global development of its blockchain-based community energy networks.

Corporation

Corporation Energy Colombia Re-Charge

Ipsos study finds US among most skeptical of Autonomous Vehicles

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2018

Although there is widespread interest in autonomous vehicles (AVs), the US—one of the largest auto markets in the world—expresses higher levels of resistance than most nations, according to a new study by Ipsos, a leading global market research firm. Fewer think AVs will be faster.

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EV Driven

BYD wins order for another 406 electric buses in Bogotá, Colombia

BYD wins cumulative order for 1,002 electric buses in Bogotá, Colombia

TomTom: Global traffic congestion up; Bengaluru world’s most traffic-congested city

BYD to add another 183 electric buses to Santiago’s fleet

Joy e-bike maker to develop hydrogen scooter, eyes global expansion | Autocar Professional

Plug In America joins global alliance

Bogotá orders 379 electric buses from BYD

JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

Chevrolet sets first-half global sales record with 2.35M units; 14% growth

The Global Outlook of Electric Vehicles

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

Global Bioenergy Partnership publishes report on 24 sustainability indicators for bioenergy: electricity, heat and transport

11 more GM facilities worldwide go landfill-free; total up to 122

Enel enters public transit electrification market in US; partners with MassCEC for electric bus fleet

Forecast: Global Biofuels Use to Double by 2015, Second-Gen Biofuels to Lag Expectations

Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

Enel acquires eMotorWerks to provide grid balancing solutions and tap into US e-mobility market

GM Creates New South America Regional Organization

USDA study finds GHG from corn-based ethanol ~39% to 43% lower than from gasoline; reduction of >70% possible by 2022

SEAT to launch 6 electric and plug-in hybrid models, develop smaller version of MEB for lower-cost EVs

This IEEE Service-Learning Program Is More Popular Than Ever

IFQC annual ranking of gasoline sulfur standards sees progress around the world; US drops to 46th

Canada Launches Heavy Oil Working Group to Promote Cleaner Fossil Fuels

City of Bogota, Columbia launches electric taxi pilot; part of C40-CCI EV Network

Fairbanks Morse Engine and Achates Power team up on opposed-piston engines

China’s CNOOC to acquire Canada-based Nexen for $15.1B; offshore oil and gas, oil sands, and shale gas

Monsanto, BASF Scientists Discover Gene Conferring Drought Tolerance in Corn Plants

MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

¿Por qué llevar la electromovilidad a sus flotas?

Columbia moves into green car era

GM global sales up 7.6% in 2011 to 9.026M vehicles; China and US largest markets

Study finds economic losses due to health burdens caused by in-car PM2.5 exposure inversely proportional to per capita GDP

Researchers say policies to curb short-lived climate pollutants could yield major health benefits; methane and black carbon

Drivers from the world’s poorest cities who keep their windows down are exposed to 80% more air pollution

Shell and Sumitomo Corporation invest in LO3 Energy to develop blockchain-based community energy platform

Ipsos study finds US among most skeptical of Autonomous Vehicles

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