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use of to the full of the phone, and then the 9 the are costa rica and brazil in the fast lane when it comes to mobility. brazil is latin, america's largest electric vehicle market. now, after years in the fast lane resilience, cities are looking to have a board to buy, electrifying their city bus fleets. meanwhile, sets of laws from the last decade or hoping to show that removing economic barriers in costa rica could be the power that the small country needs when it comes to wrapping up its battery. electric engines, costa rica is a small country in latin america. we'll talk more about how that country increased electric vehicle up taking a moment. but 1st,

i want to show you one of the rare as cars in costa rica, a converted electric car. it used to be a petrol vehicle before being converted by these to start at founders, cesar gonzales sold us and emanuel castro. besides showing that a conversion like this is possible. the co founders, other goal, is making the case that conversions of the existing fleets for companies or utilities makes economic sense. they say converting to be cheaper than buying a new e v. a little bit out of the mean way to reduce price is puts us in the sector of the market where there are people who may not be able to buy a new vehicle, but they can up for a converted to electric vehicle. baker electrical, competing as current, easy as themselves. the goal was to allow people to freedom to renew the vehicles they already have. but the parasite, it's difficult to do these conversions and takes time with your mom. and i kind of

version can take about 3 or 4 months depending on the vehicle how complex it is, all about weight distribution and design that we have to do. so it's a whole study sourcing parts to fit. the custom builders is also an issue, but the co founders hope that by showing off the handful of cars that they've already converted over the last year and a half, including the yellow many cars are we saw earlier that they can convince companies in cities to convert their existing fleets, instead of finding new, this is one of what i think it's a fraction of the price. if you compare cars like the mini cooper, the customer, i'm $13000.00 or a month from now, i may need to come straight out of the factory right now that costs between $50.00 and $60000.00. here. i meant that as in glenn sutherland, i mean it's converting existing cultural cars that the fully electric ones is just one innovation. but back to those laws, we told you about earlier. the way the long works is there are 4 different price brackets that each have different discounts. a car like this one gets 100 percent

defense, general sales, excise and customs value tax waived. that's because there's really geometry see starts at $27900.00 usd, but 0 percent of those taxes get waived for values above $60000.00. like for this car, the lexis r z for 50 e, which falls into that most expensive bracket. the values between those 2 categories receive stagger productions. this is part of the coast to region government's attempts to remove financial barriers to make buying new electric vehicles more appealing. if that's one of them, we know other countries hits or restrictions or more taxes on combustion vehicles and punish that decision to purchase one. not in cost. sorry costume impulse, but because well, you know, this is sylvia rojas, she's the president of the latin american association for sustainable mobility. other perks include free parking in some areas and waving annual road permit fees. but how well is it worked? reportedly coaster because market share of electric vehicles is high. we have trouble confirming official figures,

but one trade magazine. our tech says the electric vehicle market share. there is high in 2022 between 7.3 and 7.5 percent. compare that to official figures from canada, the us columbia, in brazil, for the same here with the law passed in 2018 revenue as in costa rica from the electric vehicle market with nearly 14000000 usd. but the markets rising as to just the market insights estimates it will be worth 321000000 by 2028. small compared to some of its neighbors. true, but not bad for a country like costa rica. but as the case here shows, there are plenty of people who can't afford or don't want to buy their own eaves. so how do we electrified their transport? the enter the humble bus? just a few kilometers outside of sao paulo is

a production site for the company, a late draft. this brazilian company has been making electric, trolley buses for decades. but in recent years they added 100 percent electric battery buses to their catalogue. these buses are already on the streets of the neighboring megacity sell palo muslims like it is. we have 85 percent of the pure electric market. that's how you get older vieira, the executive director of a lead trip. she can join us on site. so we hopped on a call, she knows the bosses, our company produces are more expensive, so the initial investment has to be worth it for city officials in the long run. and also if we put buses that costs a $3.00 times more than these, the buses and they last less than 15 years, we would undermine the transport system not only in brazil, but in that in america. these buses must last at least 15 years in the system to lose this came up making sure buses last is critical here. and so apollo

for the city band to the purchase of new petro power buses in 2022. and then once it gets on and so paulo the public transport system is composed of $12000.00 vehicles that run daily all over the city. they transport an average of 7000000 passengers in paris for comparison, was just over 2000000 residents and 4700 public buses and earned the title was best city in europe for public transport last year. but in south hollow, which is 15 times the size of the french city of lights and with nearly 6 times as many people, buses are a major part of the transportation network. it's going to be a heavy lift to meet the ambitious goal of increasing a t v fleet to 20 percent. reducing noise and pollution or additional benefits. the hitting national targets to reduce the c o. 2 in line with the parents climate

accord is a factor. and brazil, like many latin american nations, has a relatively green electricity grid, may be collecting in latin america. 65 percent of electricity comes from green and renewable sources. a different allow list address rape lloyd o is the executive secretary of latin american energy organization. i use it, there are countries where renewables account for nearly 100 percent of electricity, paraguay, uruguay. and if some are, as of the day she laid out what a hold of india. many of the countries in this region have large hydro projects and other green energy sources, all contributing to a cleaner energy matrix, making this switch to electric vehicles more impactful. but this is not a simple swap over for one electric buses or more expensive. the whole storming will do think

anything. it has the initial investment cost. and that's precisely because of the new technology, because i'm over at the conclusion here. before the pandemic miranda estimates the initial investment was twice as much as a petrol bus. now folks are bothered to but we have observed that the battery electric vehicle was costing 3 times more than a traditional diesel vehicle. adds that new technology has also meant adoption bottlenecks. as infrastructure like electric charging garages have to be installed baltimore, she's there has to be all the necessary logistics because today the logistics of diesel is much more consolidated because the garage is that where great volume of fuel is consumed by each of the buses. today, the garage itself, the concession to the company itself, they have their own passing tanks, the large distributors, buy and sell them over to, you know, about this tooth drops, the cost and infrastructure. these are also problems faced by customers when buying

personal vehicles around the world. beyond transport, the entire city eco system has to be prepared. well, olaja claims it has big market share and electric buses and brazil. they're not the only players in the game. b, y d, a well known personal e manufacturer also produces electric buses and they're now going hard on expansion into latin america. meanwhile, mercedes benz is actually doing business with the late tra where they are producing electric bus chassis is like these in brazil for companies like a later and others. the company says it already has $250.00 chassis is circulating itself, although we believe it's just the kids off the bus. that's a heem who shared. he's the president debt, mercedes benz, brazil, and the ceo of mercedes benz latin america. so we see a stronger need in public transportation and be expected also a year left in america to grow. so you can see what's 20,

sorry. and i think in general, you understand, look was on bus, you can capture 50 cars while the personal e g market relies heavily on imports to share it says increasing domestic production for electric buses will be important. or i think it's a great opportunity though that maybe is missed at the moment because if you have some natural resources that allow hydrogen production or if he has the ingredients for at least you like for instance, i mentioned to you also. but as a reproduction of easy, that could also stimulated with low feet and the end of the for the you don't watch and to, you know, they're not with you and part of the components of the vehicles. but you should rather see that you would do better open open industry, and then utilize the natural resources in different countries. just like with personal electric vehicles, increasing domestic solutions is seen as critical for the future production of the

buses. so our costa rica and brazil in the fast lane when it comes to email ability, government policy and costa rica is one contributing factor to end up taking the purchasing well start ups like electro convergeone is the costa rica hope that they can push a different bracket of car owner to be able to sport green license plates like these. meanwhile, mega cities and brazil are investing more in electric buses which capitalize on rich and diverse green energy sources. but even though the speed is picking up, the road is along one the people in june via are fighting over fish the money and the economy or the economy. it's very important i will survive, but he allows the company to incentive since

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