Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
31/08/2010
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Source: Economic Value
Electric cars, now subject to rates of tax (IPI) of 25%, have reduced the tax burden to a range between 7% and 18%, according to engine capacity. It is given in the last minute measure to encourage domestic production of cars and electric hybrids and collectives. What was once billed as a program only to the electric car has become a proposed revision of the IPC which should also benefit from hybrid cars powered by electricity and biofuel.
The program, to be announced soon by the ministries of Finance, Development and Science and Technology, will determine which hybrid vehicles powered by electricity and biofuels and the pure electric, now subject to IPI, 25%, will have the same rates apply today flex vehicles: 7% for cars of engine capacity up to a thousand, 11% for cars between one thousand and 2000 cc, and 18% for cars with engine capacity less than 2000. The gasoline hybrid vehicles have the same rates of gasoline vehicles, ranging from 7% to 25% depending on engine capacity.
The program also foresees the creation of the "Automotive Innovation Scheme" to be released in 2011, to develop and produce in the country alternative engine technologies, especially the flex, electric and so-called "hybrid green" powered electric power or ethanol or biodiesel. To get the benefits of the program, IPI for cars and smaller reduction of PIS / Cofins for cars and buses, manufacturers will have to invest a percentage of revenues (as yet undefined) in technological research. They will also have to produce vehicles in Brazil with a high rate of nationalization or under rules known as basic productive process (used for access to the incentives of the Manaus Free Zone, for example).
In Brazil, the Ministry of Science and Technology identifies advanced searches for hydrogen bus, one in Coppe, program graduate of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, which has already developed a prototype, and other Company Municipal Urban Transport Sao Paulo, which has built five buses. In hydrogen vehicles, ten patent applications filed in projects in which the government invested R$ 47 million.
According to government experts, the electric car has cost an average of R$ 0.06 per kilometer, one-third of the performance of ethanol cars, which affects cost of R$ 0.18. The government believes, however, that a hybrid car "green", running on ethanol, electricity would have cost close to that of pure electric.
The program to support the electric car came to have your ad scheduled for early this year but was postponed by the intervention of the Ministry of Development, who claimed to be contradictory to create a program to encourage the electric motors as the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva engages in the worldwide campaign to drive adoption of ethanol. Ministries reassessed the program and came to the project to be released soon, dealing with electric cars and hybrids, which can also stimulate research to produce more efficient engines powered by biofuel.
Source: Petroleum Tn
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