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EV Sales Report: LatAm’s Laggards & Smaller Markets (Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, & El Salvador)

CleanTechnica EVs

Whilst Latin Americas largest vehicle markets have been undergoing significant EV growth (we can already predict Brazils plug-in market share will surpass 5% in 2024 and Mexicos will be above 2%) and several minor markets are showing meteoric growth (Costa Rica, Uruguay, and Colombia), this does not mean the entire.

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Plug Power expands hydrogen supply chain partner network in Spain with CLH

Green Car Congress

Plug Power Inc., Through the agreement, CLH will develop hydrogen production assets and downstream markets in Spain, in the industrial, mobility and power production/storage sectors for distribution to Plug Power customers throughout Europe.

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DOE launching $80M Supertruck II initiative; 55% BTE; awards $12M for 3 medium- and heavy-duty plug-in projects

Green Car Congress

DOE is also awarding more than $12 million for three new cost-shared projects focused on the research, development, and demonstration of plug-in electric powertrain technologies for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Plug-in projects. Two teams have already exceeded this goal and two are on track to meet it. Supertruck.

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Costa Rica to become Latin American electric-car pioneer?

Green Car Reports

The Central American country ,wedged between Nicaragua and Panama, is home to 4.8 Costa Rica isn't what you'd call a bastion of automotive sales. million people who buy just 154,000 vehicles annually—less than 1 percent of the sales in the United States. But that won't deter the Costa Rican government from greening its fleet.

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Detect Quakes With “Raspberry Shakes”

Cars That Think

Actually, a whole community of (mostly) amateur seismologists had, using a Raspberry Pi–based device called a Raspberry Shake , developed in 2016 by a group in tectonically active Panama. This consists of a geophone and a sensor board that plugs into a Raspberry Pi. was, in fact, a small earthquake. I used a Raspberry Pi Model 3B+.

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BP Riser Insertion Tube Reported Working, Some Oil and Gas from Deepwater Horizon Well Being Captured

Green Car Congress

Rubber diaphragms on the tool conform around the drill pipe to plug the riser as much as possible. Panama City, Fla.; The procedure—never attempted before at this depth—involves inserting a 5-foot length of the specifically-designed tool into the end of the existing, damaged riser from where the oil and gas is leaking.

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Down to the wire for final round of public voting in DOE Apps for Vehicles challenge

Green Car Congress

Currently in closed beta test (tested in multiple makes/models/years of cars, as well as city, rural environments, as well as internationally in Panama, Canada, UK and France), with a Q1/2 2013 launch date. The two grand prie winners will split the remaining $34,000 from the total prize kitty (i.e., 17,000 each.).