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

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A joint venture between Colombian business group Fanalca and international public transport operator Transdev used BYD’s integrated E-bus solutions to bid and successfully won the tender. —Lara Zhang, Regional Director of BYD Latin America.

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Omnitek Engineering selected for diesel-to-gas drayage truck conversion demo at Port of Seattle

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Funk noted the company is also focused on other diesel engine model conversion opportunities to complement its international growth expansion with partners in Asia, Latin and South America, China and Europe. —Stephen Lambo, president of American Strategic Group.

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BMW, Daimler moving ahead with mobility services JV following US greenlight

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CarSharing with Car2Go and DriveNow: Car2Go and DriveNow operate a total of 20,000 vehicles in 30 major international cities. Ride-Hailing with mytaxi, Chauffeur Privé, Clever Taxi and Beat: A total of 15.9 Carsharing enables better utilisation of vehicles and thus helps reduce the total number of vehicles in cities.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Thats because electric engines are more efficient than internal-combustion engines, and because generating energy on a large scale (in coal or nuclear plants) is less wasteful than doing it on a small scale (by burning gasoline in an internal-combustion engine). "Their cars are way behind Toyota, for sure," Sokol admits.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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Most of this was driven by Europe, where strict cash penalties levied directly on automakers, for each ICE (internal-combustion engine) sold, came into effect January 2020 — and simply worked! The LEVC electric taxi might still be the only EV that both designed *and* produced on UK’s home turf. in 2019 to 4% in 2020. I have no idea.

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