CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 14, 2022

To mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, we must transition away from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal and toward clean energy generation and zero-emission transportation options. However, many green technologies, such as electric vehicles and renewable power plants, depend on lithium-ion batteries, which require lithium.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2022

Penske Truck Leasing is a Penske Transportation Solutions company headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania. Penske Truck Leasing operates more than 372,000 vehicles and serves customers from more than 1,300 locations in North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

The conurbation of the metropolitan area of La Paz/El Alto is one of the fastest growing urban settlements in South America with the particularity of being located in a very complex terrain at a high altitude. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Atmospheric Environment.

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Bolivia Transportation Global Climate Change 247

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 23, 2022

By Juan Diego Celemín Mojica “Passionate for all things Latin American, I’ve been closely following the energy and mobility transitions since they started to be present south of the Equator.”

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 23, 2023

While much of South America is having difficulty with the development of an electric vehicle market, Chile has made significant efforts to deploy EVs. While this has been primarily in the area of public transport, new legislation is expected to bring a significant rise to the level of electric passenger vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

The buses were tendered by the Bogotá City Public Transport Authority (TRANSMILENIO S.A.). 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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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2022

Volvo Group Venture Capital has invested in Optibus , a cloud-native, end-to-end software platform for public transportation planning and operations, to advance bus electrification and the digitalization of the public transportation industry. Optibus offers a scalable SaaS solution and has doubled its revenue year over year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

Arbios Biotech was formed to commercialize Licella’s Cat-HTR platform, a globally leading hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) technology, for various forms of wood and post-consumer biomass around the world, particularly in North America, South America and Europe.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 14, 2024

Rowland and Fenestraz looking to back up Diriyah performances in Brazil YOKOHAMA, Japan – Nissan Formula E Team is set for Round 4 of the 2023/24 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship as the series travels to South America, for the second running of the São Paulo E-Prix. The team will.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

million off a $5 million valuation, is developing a clean transport ecosystem with its fleet of electric scooters, bikes, mopeds and e-bikes. The company plans on being active throughout South America and identified EnergyX as a strategic partner capable of helping it enact its vision.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 23, 2022

By Juan Diego Celemín Mojica “Passionate for all things Latin American, I’ve been closely following the energy and mobility transitions since they started to be present south of the Equator.” ” So far, South America has been a laggard in the transition to electric mobility.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Honeywell’s Transportation Systems Forecast projects that turbocharged vehicles will acount for 48% of annual global sales by 2021, up 9 percentage points from 2016. Methodology.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 12, 2023

We and others have long been calling for more electrification in South America. But the electric vehicle revolution has primarily been focused on China, Europe, and the United States. That is now part of […]

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Brazil South America United States Electric 97

CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 27, 2023

When we think of where lithium comes from, we think of South America (Chile specifically), Australia, and the US a bit — with processing in China, of course. We don’t think of Africa. However, Africa has resources, and the expectation is that the continent will be a much bigger source of lithium by 2030. Lithium […]

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2021

Europe’s demand for biodiesel for cars and trucks has likely wiped out forests the size of the Netherlands since the introduction of the EU’s green fuels law in 2010, according to a new study by Transport & Environment (T&E). Europe has burned around 39 million tonnes of palm and soy biodiesel alone in its cars and trucks since 2010.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Ten of the locomotives will be manufactured in Erie and Grove City, USA and 90 will be manufactured locally at Transnet Rail Engineering’s site in South Africa with kits provided by GE Transportation. GE Transportation has an installed base of some 1,200 GE locomotives in Africa including approximately 900 in South Africa.

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South Africa Africa Transportation South America 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The third-largest emitter globally, India has a strong dependence upon 2- and 4-stroke three-wheel vehicles powered by fossil fuels, which serve as essential last-mile transport yet contribute to the country’s air quality crisis.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

The “brine-to-battery” company has filed more than 50 patents to this end, and is developing its proprietary Lithium Ion Transport and Separation (LiTAS) and Solid State Lithium Metal Battery (SoLiS) technologies.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

The global transportation industry firms lag behind ‘Global 500 Companies’ in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and setting reduction targets, according to a new report from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Transportation is a major contributor to the US economy. Transportation is a major contributor to the US economy.

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Global Transportation Carbon Emissions 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The vehicles will be delivered primarily in Europe, North and South America. TWAICE’s analytics software will make the battery performance and lifetime of electrified powertrains transparent and thus more sustainable. Retrofitting can be an economical and sustainable alternative to diesel vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2013

Buquebus is the largest tourism transportation company in Uruguay, connecting more than 2 million passengers in Argentina and Uruguay per year by boat and by bus. Buquebus is also the largest Tourist Agent in South America, selling more than 300,000 hotel beds and 400,000 city tours per year.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 28, 2022

GM and Livent announced today a multi-year sourcing agreement in which Livent will supply GM with battery-grade lithium hydroxide manufactured from lithium obtained at its brine-based sites in South America. Lithium hydroxide is important for GM’s plans to develop more powerful, longer-lasting electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2020

The MAN B&W ME-C engines—as part of the hybrid propulsion set-up—will enable a 100% increase in efficiency when measured in terms of consumption/ton of freight transported, compared to existing vessels. Designed by Knud E. Hansen, the new RoRos will be among the first examples of a new series of hybrid vessels.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2018

As a leading services provider to commercial fleets, we feel standardization around electric vehicle charging and charging stations will help accelerate the use of electric vehicles within the transportation industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2018

China-based Didi Chuxing, the world’s leading one-stop mobile transportation platform, and Booking Holdings, a global leader in online accommodations and travel e-commerce, have entered into a strategic partnership. Booking Holdings has invested US$500 million in DiDi, recognizing DiDi as a leader in the mobile transportation industry.

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South America China Automobile Connect 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2023

Shorter distances between the feedstock supply and the plant also reduce transportation costs. The company’s long-term plan is to work with dozens and eventually hundreds of local owner / operators around North America, Africa and Central/South America where it has established relationships.

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Diesel Fuel Energy Waste 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2014

an agricultural biotechnology and seed company, will evaluate a number of its biotech traits in sugarcane in South America. Food and Agriculture Organization, 62 million acres (25 million hectares) of sugarcane were harvested worldwide in 2012, including 27 million acres (11 million hectares) in South America.

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America South America Commercial Production 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2019

While automatic crash notification systems are doing their part in this matrix, the introduction of V2X is expected to revolutionize the way consumers drive, if not the entire transportation system. However, since the announcement, the EU Parliament’s transport committee has come forward to reject the proposal alongside a number of OEMs.

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Vehicles Light South America 2020 301

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

A new study provides the most detailed picture available to date of the global, regional, and local health impacts attributable to emissions from four transportation subsectors: on-road diesel vehicles; other on-road vehicles; shipping; and non-road mobile engines such as agricultural and construction equipment. Source: The ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2015

The Colombian city of Cartagena has ordered 147 Scania Euro 6 gas buses for its new transport system as part of Scania’s largest deal to date on Euro 6 gas technology in South America. Scania will be the exclusive provider for two trunk lines for Cartagena’s new Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system, called Transcaribe.

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Gas Colombia South America Maintenance 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2018

Penske Truck Leasing Corporation is a leading global transportation services provider operating more than 270.000 vehicles and serving customers from more than 1.000 locations in North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

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Fully Electric 2018 Industrial Industry 244

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

believe that our presence in South America will allow us to jointly explore other opportunities for our proprietary heavy-duty electric traction drive systems and our lithium-ion battery management systems within transportation markets through joint ventures with regional original equipment manufacturers throughout South America.

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Argentina South America Lithium Ion Dealers 199

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In response, Ethiopia’s Transport and Logistics Ministries have announced that automobiles cannot enter Ethiopia, unless they are electric. (!) According to a news update from the parliament, Alemu Sime, the Ethiopian Minister for Transport and Logistics, announced the completion of the nations Logistics Master Plan Monday.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2015

Under a project to deliver a new generation of green transport fuel, researchers the Islamic Azad University in Iran have produced biodiesel from flixweed seed oil. It probably arrived in North America in the mid-1800s as an impurity in crop seed, and was widespread by the 1920s.

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Oil Lithuania Iran Africa 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2019

Together with Messer Group, the consolidated business represents a USD3 billion global enterprise with presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia. With more than 70 production facilities in five countries across North and South America, Messer today is one of the largest industrial gas companies in this region.

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Hydrogen California South America America 207

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2015

Isobutene is a key chemical building block that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals. Whereas glucose is the major North-American feedstock, sucrose is abundant in Europe and South-America, noted Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.).

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Global South America Polymer Convert 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2010

TATSA (Tecnología Avanzada en Transporte S.A.) is a member of GRUPO PLAZA, one of the largest transportation companies in South America founded 50 years ago.

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