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Electric Buses in SP Will Receive Over 1 Billion Reais in Investments
This Thursday (10), an alliance between 17 investors and manufacturers was announced, aiming to inject around R$ 1 billion in investments to finance the increase of the electric bus fleet in four cities in Latin America: São Paulo – SP, Medellín (Colombia), Santiago (Chile), and Mexico City. The investments in the electric bus fleet aim to permit the circulation of over 3,000 of these vehicles.
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