Energy About 98 percent of the Porto Alegre’s residents are connected to the power grid. The vast majority of the city’s power comes from hydroelectric sources, at 94 percent of grid output. In Brazil, there are also a few coal-fired plants, fuel-oil fired plants and one nuclear facility. Increased utilization of natural gas and other [...]
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ECTOS demonstration project The first step towards becoming a hydrogen society was the ECTOS demonstration project, which ran from 2001 until August 2005 and was very successful. ECTOS (Ecological City TranspOrt System) involved three hydrogen fuel cell buses and one fuel station. Many international companies contributed to the project including Daimler Chrysler, who made the [...]
By: kennethTopics Covered Include: • Application Trends by Vehicle Type • Electrification Architectures • Infrastructure Implications • Business and Cost Analysis • Technology Trends • Standards and Regulations A study done by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, found that a total of 573,681 hybrid vehicles (cars and small trucks) [...]

Chinese automobile market kept a certain growth, and the domestic automobile sales reached to 9.38 million at a year on year growth rate of 6%. FAW-Volkswagen, Shanghai- Volkswagen and Shanghai Tayor ranked the top three in auto sales in 2008 respectively. However, the market share of domestic independent brand, such as Chery, fell down; whose market share was only about 25.92% in total auto market.Published Date : March 2009 Pages : 60










