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BYD Launches Shark in Brazil & Song Pro in Paraguay

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continued] The post BYD Launches Shark in Brazil & Song Pro in Paraguay appeared first on CleanTechnica. It is quickly rising up the ranks when it comes to global auto sales, and I’m more convinced each day it will rise to #1. Tesla looks like a turtle these days compared to the fast-swimming.

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Shell contracts with ECB Group for more than 2.5 billion liters of renewable diesel and jet

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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.

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Renault and Itaipu to collaborate on EVs in Brazil

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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%

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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. 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 [.].

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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". 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.

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Ford building new $1.6B plant in Mexico for small cars

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Vehicles produced in Mexico also serve customers in the US, Canada, China, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and South Korea. Mexico is Ford’s fourth-largest vehicle manufacturing site for global customers—behind the US, China and Germany. During the past five years, Ford has invested more than $10.2

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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.