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Dirtiest Country For Electric Cars? India; Cleanest? Paraguay

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Electric cars are often described as "zero emission vehicles". But naturally, they get their energy from somewhere, and that somewhere is a country's electricity grid. That's true, to an extent - you won't find a drop of any substance eminating from their non-existent tailpipes.

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Want to go green? Buy an electric car and move to Paraguay

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Paraguay is the greenest place on the Earth to own and drive an electric car, thanks to its hydro-energy driven electricity grid.

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Iveco Electric Daily Prototype Begins Testing in Brazil

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The Electric Daily in Brazil. Iveco has presented a prototype of its new Electric Daily in Brazil, destined to be the first zero emission light commercial vehicle produced in Latin America. Electric Daily MY06: Powertrain. Electric Daily MY06: Main components layout. Electric Daily MY06: Main components layout.

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Study Finds Water Footprint for Bioenergy Larger Than Other Forms of Energy; Bioelectricity the Smallest, Biodiesel the Largest

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In addition, their study includes jatropha, an energy crop. In general they found that bioelectricity is more water-efficient than first-generation biofuels (due largely to the ability to use the entire biomass to produce energy, rather than just the starch or oil fraction of the yield for liquid fuel production).

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Iveco brings electric prototype to Brazil

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Could the first zero emission light commercial vehicle ever produced in Latin America be the Iveco Electric Daily? 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.

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China’s new energy buses are re-exported to Europe

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my country’s new energy bus technology has reached the world’s leading level. Compared with traditional power buses, new energy buses are more globally competitive. No, recently, good news came from the overseas markets of BYD and Zhongtong new energy buses at the same time. The port city of Trelleborg.

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COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

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All governments should also support the transition of these light vehicles to zero emission vehicles; Kenya; Secretariat of Economy, Mexico; Morocco; Paraguay; Rwanda; Turkey; Uruguay. Unilever; Vattenfall; Zenith; Zurich. .; Financial institutions: Aviva; NatWest.