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The Sun Shines in South America: Colombia & Brazil Give Large Boost to Solar Deployment

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Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:34:28 +0000

South America has a lot of sun and a lot of space, and solar energy has grown from a small player to the main driver of generation growth in several countries in the region (making their already clean grids even cleaner). Today we look at the grids of Chile, Brazil, and Colombia, all of which have already made solar a cornerstone of their generation or are working to do so in the near future.

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Cotierra’s Biochar Tech Aims to Enrich Colombia’s Coffee Industry

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Credit to Author: Jonny Tiernan| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:40:26 +0000

Reversing climate change and safeguarding your morning cup of coffee in a one-two punch? That’s what Cotierra, a Swiss-Colombian carbon removal and AgTech startup aim to do with the $1 million in pre-seed funding they just received from a consortium of environmental and climate-focused investors. The investment will support the … [continued]

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Latin American EV Market Heats Up as Chinese Automakers Enter with Newer, Cheaper, Better Options

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Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:01:35 +0000

A bloodbath is coming. The exact timeline we don’t know, not yet at least. But the omens are here already … [continued]

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Latin America EV Sales Report, Part 3: Leaders on the Podium (Colombia, Uruguay, Costa Rica)

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Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:57:35 +0000

And so we get to the last part of our report, regarding the three countries leading the region in EV … [continued]

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Most e-Mopeds In Bogota Could Be Rendered Illegal This Year

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Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:20:04 +0000

Laws take time to catch up with technological changes. And, worse, lawmakers are usually abysmal at predicting technological innovation and, more importantly, how that innovation is going to affect society. An event related to this seems to be unfolding here in Bogota in real-time. Because the country wanted to be prepared, laws were put in place […]

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BYD Silently Reduces BEV Prices In Colombia

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Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 02:10:53 +0000

Spearheaded by Tesla, price cuts in BEV lines have been happening all over the world … and, more recently, seem to have arrived in Latin America. BYD in Colombia BYD has been a local player in Colombia since the early 2010s, when it both started selling gasoline vehicles (particularly the city car BYD F0, which […]

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Public EV Transportation In South America

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Credit to Author: Otto Gunderson| Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 07:17:36 +0000

The common conception appears to be that a successful transition to electric vehicles is determined by the number of passenger vehicles sold. China, Europe, and the United States lead the way in this category and are thus considered to be at the forefront of EV adoption. However, another metric should be used when analyzing countries […]

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The Year of Change: Snippets from the EV Situation in Latin America

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Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:30:29 +0000

Long distances, oilfields, and low salaries abound south of the Rio Bravo. If you ask me, it’s mainly these three conditions that have marked Latin America as one of the laggards in the EV transition. Alas, all bad times should come to an end, and recent developments in the region start to show not a […]

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