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Thursday, March 26th, 2009If you’ve been reading The Temas Blog for awhile, you might recall a prior post about the efforts of the hydropower firm Itaipu Binacional (IB) and FIAT to create an electric vehicle (built at facilities by the giant Itapu Dam) appropriate for Brazil and its MERCOSUR partners (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay). Now comes word that the […]
Colombia Sets Zero Tariffs on Electric Cars, Studies Doing Same for Other “Clean” Vehicles
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008Last month I posted about Colombia’s decision to import (and promote) the Reva electric car. Now comes word that the Triple A Committee on Customs, Tariff and Trade Affairs has approved a zero import tariff for the first 100 of the cars. Ten will be imported in December, the other 90 in the first half […]
Solar Power in Chile & Panama, Electric Cars in Uruguay
Thursday, September 25th, 2008It’s been awhile since I did a post pointing to worthy or interesting posts on other blogs. Not that there hasn’t been plenty of good material to point to, and I certainly have wanted to do a slew of such posts. In fact, I’ve been considering adding a regular (weekly?) post of such links. Question […]
Electric Cars for Chile
Monday, August 4th, 2008Synopsis in English: The American Multi-services Company (Compañía Americana de Multiservicios – CAM) — 100% owned by Enersis S.A., which in turn is a subsidiary of the Spanish energy multinational Endesa — has announced that as soon as the Chilean Transport Ministry (MTT) gives the formal go-ahead (expected by year-end), it will import 100% electric […]