The first national bus with zero pollutant emission level should start circulating in São Paulo in November 2007. The vehicle will have capacity for 90 passengers, hybrid electric traction (fuel cell plus battery) and 300-kilometre autonomy. US$ 16 million will be invested in the initial project.
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From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The first Brazilian hydrogen cell powered bus will be delivered tomorrow (14) by the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Metropolitan Company of Urban Transport of São Paulo (EMTU). The event will take place at the EMTU offices, in São Bernardo do Campo, at 09:30 am. At the
One of the models presented by the School of Industrial Engineering (FEI) University Center at the International Automobile Trade Show is a hybrid Astra, powered by an electric engine whose batteries are recharged by a small combustion engine. The school has also presented award-winning cars in energy performance competitions.
In the city of Manaus, in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas, a professor and four engineering students have created a brick made out of PET bottles. The product was tested and has shown itself resistant, as well as being an excellent insulator due to the air within the bottle. Now the product just needs to go on the market.
The end of course project developed by a group of students from the University of São Paulo has become a promising business. The cashew hamburger is still in testing phases, but it should reach the market this year and cost less than its soy counterpart.
Enactment of the Brazilian information technology law, which forecasts exemption of the Industrialized Product Tax (IPI) in some states and an 95% reduction in others until 2014, among other incentives, should boost sector investment from the current R$ 600 million (275 million) to R$ 1 billion (US$ 460 million) by 2007. To the minister, the loss of income from the taxes should be compensated by greater sector revenues.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) should commission today (04) two Mirage 2000-C aircraft of a total 12 that the country purchased from France. The commissioning ceremony, to include Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, should take place at Anápolis Air Base, in the midwestern Brazilian state of Goiás. The aircraft
Agência Brasil* Manaus – The first financing contract of the Development Fund of the Amazon (FDA), signed yesterday (28), is going to help build a thermo-electric plant that will produce 81,250 kilowatts of energy in Manaus, capital city of the Brazilian Northern state of Amazonas. "This represents 10% of the energy consumed in Manaus, including
Between September 01 and 06, the 10th General Conference of the Academy of Science for the Developing World will be promoted in the city of Angra dos Reis, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Representatives of 12 Arab countries should participate in the meeting, among them the ministers of Science and Technology of Palestine and Sudan.
A factory of integrated circuits will be installed in the city of Porto Alegre, in the South of Brazil, up to April 2007. It will produce chips used for making computers, television sets and cellular phones. The project came from a partnership between the federal, state and municipal governments with teaching, research and entrepreneurial entities.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Shoe industry São Paulo Alpargatas is going to inaugurate on Friday (25) a research and development centre in the city of São Leopoldo, in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The unit will concentrate intelligence turned to innovation and development of new products for the global
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Mobile telephony in Brazil registered another 1.2 million numbers in July. Up to the seventh month of the year, there were 93 million telephone numbers operating in the country, a volume 1.4% greater than the total registered in June. Of the total, around 74 million are prepaid and 18
The Research and Development Centre is after a commercial partner to start operating in the Arab world. CPqD supplies technology to support operations and business, mainly in the telecommunications sector. The Foundation has revenues of R$ 204.5 million a year (US$ 93.8 million at current exchange rates) and started exporting in 2000.
