A massive cargo ship docked  ODM pencil  in the Chilean port of San Antonio at the end of November, carrying it its belly the first 100 electric buses from China that Chileans hope will revolutionise their public transport system.“Our question to the government is this: From what year will it no longer allow combustion engines to be sold in Chile?” he said.Chile offers electric vehicles exemptions from environmental tax and traffic restrictions, as well as subsidies and fast-track licensing to taxi drivers who switch to more energy efficient cars, the Ministry of Energy said.The Netherlands and Britain have more than 300 electric buses each but they are spread among several cities rather than concentrated in one, as will be the case in Santiago. The 100 that recently arrived were manufactured by Chinese firm BYD Electronic International Co Ltd, financed by the local subsidiary of the Italian power utility Enel Generacion Chile SA and will be operated by Metbus, a private Chilean company.Mexico City has a booming market in electric scooters and bicycles.The initiative puts Chile at the forefront of clean mobility in Latin America as well as among developing countries worldwide.Chile’s ambitious plan to face down its capital Santiago’s notorious smog problem includes the rollout of electric scooters, cars and taxis, as well as lorries for use in the mining industry.“Chile will be second only to China as a nation with the greatest quantity of electric buses in the world,” Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said at the start of November when the government took delivery of six BMW i3 electric cars destined for ministerial use.   Enthusiasts of the new technology prefer to focus on the pluses of clean motoring, such as the reduction in noise and air pollution as well as lower fuel غير مجاز مي باشدts.Energy minister Susana Jiménez told Reuters the government wanted electric vehicles to account for 40 per cent of Chile’s private fleet and 100 per cent of public transportation on the roads by 2050.Chile drives electric vehicle rollout in Latin America.Chile’s plan to face down its capital Santiago’s smog problem includes the rollout of electric scooters, cars and taxis. Chile has just 40 public charging stations - half of them in Santiago, according to the energy ministry. It also plans to introduce between 300 and 500 electric buses.Mineral-rich Chile - which is not only the world’s largest copper producer but also the second-largest producer of lithium, a key component in electric vehicle batteries - aims to increase the number of electric vehicles tenfold by 2022.The initiative puts Chile at the forefront of clean mobility in Latin America as well as among developing countries worldwide.Another 100 due to be added to the Santiago fleet are being financed by French energy generation firm Engie Energia Chile SA and manufactured by China’s Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co Ltd.The Chilean capital will have 200 in total, the government said.If the present fleets of buses and taxis spread across 22 Latin American cities were replaced by electric vehicles today, by 2030 almost USD 64 billion in fuel would have been saved, and 300 million tons less of carbon dioxide equivalent would have been pumped into the air, according to a UN study.The government is also encouraging its mining industry to look at using electric lorries, with state copper miner Codelco recently announcing a pilot scheme to introduce them.But it represents a significant challenge given the persistently high price of electric vehicles and the paucity of charging points in the country.A BMW i3 equivalent to those being tested by ministers would غير مجاز مي باشدt around USD 60,000 in Chile, prohibitively expensive for most motorists in a country where the average monthly wage is USD 410.Matías Asun, Greenpeace’s national director, said at the present rate of electric vehicles penetration, the government would have to take dramatic action to meet its 2050 goal.Studies by McKinsey and Bloomberg bear his claims out - of the 385,000 electric buses on the road worldwide last year, 99 per cent are in China.But the electric vehicle industry remains nascent across Latin America, partly due to the high غير مجاز مي باشدts.Peru has slashed the import tax on electric vehicles to zero while Colombia is converting public diesel buses to unspecified, cleaner engines.The operation and maintenance غير مجاز مي باشدts of an electric bus are also around 70 per cent less than those of a diesel engine, according to Chile’s Ministry of Transport.

The remark is direct reference to PM China Custom key box s statement in a speech when he said he was the nation’s ‘chowkidar’ or security guard. It was indicated in the papers kept inside the envelope that the question paper was leaked and circulated through four WhatsApp numbers,’ the letter read.It seems some kind of gang is behind this and is doing it deliberately.Rahul wrote: “How many leaks? Data Leak, Aadhaar Leak, SSC Exam Leak, Election Date Leak, CBSE papers leaked, there is a leak in everything, chowkidar (watchman) is weak.Congress president Rahul Gandhi targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over CBSE calling for re-examination of Class 10 mathematics and Class 13 economics papers.Also read: New foolproof system from Monday to check CBSE paper leak: JavadekarOn Monday, panic struck # students following claims on Whatsapp that the class 12 economics paper has been leaked, though CBSE had denied it.His comments came after the CBSE decided to re-conduct the two exams following fresh reports in social media that the class 10 paper had been leaked.The Delhi Police's crime branch, on the other hand, has already begun investigating the alleged paper leak of the economics paper after registering a case in the matter. On March 15, the social media was abuzz with reports that the class 12 accountancy paper had been leaked.In the letter to the Delhi Police, CBSE stated that the complaint copy was forwarded to the regional office of CBSE on March 24 and to Inspector Sushil Yadav on his Whatsapp.‘On March 26, CBSE academic unit received an unaddressed envelope containing four sheets of hand written answer papers of economics paper held on that day.HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said a new 'foolproof' system would be in place from Monday for CBSE board exams following reports that the CBSE Class 10 mathematics and Class 12 economics papers had been leaked. A special team is already probing the matter and the guilty will not spared, he told reporters as he faced a barrage of questions about the repeated leaks. The minister said he had spoken to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and apprised him about the developments.The complaint received by an unknown source on March 23 claimed that the perpetrator runs a coaching institute, and also named two schools from the same vicinity as complicit in the leakage, the CBSE conveyed to the Delhi Police on Thursday. Javadekar said an internal probe was initiated into reports claiming that the papers were leaked.The Central Board of School Education (CBSE) has received a complaint by fax naming a person from Sector 8, Rajinder Nagar to be behind the paper leak of Class 10 and 12 examination papers