Green Car Congress
JANUARY 27, 2021
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.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 24, 2009
The Agile is targeted for emerging markets such as Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay (Mercosur). The Agile is the first model of the Viva family; Project Viva represents a US$400 million investment by GM un Brazil and Argentina. GM began doing business in Brazil in 1925. In 2008, it posted record annual sales (548,941 vehicles).
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 17, 2013
Itaipu, owned by the governments of Brazil and Paraguay, operates the Itaipu dam across the Paraná River. of consumption in Paraguay. Itaipu dam is currently the world’s largest hydroelectric plant in power generation. With 20 generator units and 14,000 MW of installed capacity, it provides approximately 17.3%
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Electric cars are often described as "zero emission vehicles". That's true, to an extent - you won't find a drop of any substance eminating from their non-existent tailpipes. But naturally, they get their energy from somewhere, and that somewhere is a country's electricity grid. Those can be less than clean, as China's recent smog problems from.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
Embrapa, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Cooperation, and BASF’s jointly developed herbicide-tolerant soybeans were green-lighted on 10 December 10 by CTNBio,the Brazilian Biosafety Technical Commission. Cultivance is the first genetically modified crop developed in Brazil, from laboratory to commercialization.
Green Cars News
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Paraguay is the greenest place on the Earth to own and drive an electric car, thanks to its hydro-energy driven electricity grid. The South American country produces a staggering five time more hydroelectricity than it produces, meaning that the footprint of running an electric car there is rated at just 70 g CO2e/km-virtually all of [.].
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. GM South America currently has 29,000 employees.
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