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00:14 Report by / Dan Hirschfeld
00:23 Rodrigo Fumo / Vice President WEG Industrial Motors
01:22 Camilo Adas / Director Energy Transition Be8

Script:

This electric motor for machines and elevators produces 100 horsepower 

Just like this one -- which is far smaller and a lot lighter. 

It was developed by the Brazilian firm WEG. At this week's Hannover Trade Fair in Germany, the company hopes to attract European customers in particular, for whom energy efficiency is an urgent concern.
 
+++ SOT Rodrigo Fumo, Vice President WEG Industrial Motors +++
"The blue one we see a traditional motor, that weights 630 kilogramm. This has 100 horsepower. This here  is either 100 horsepower, but it weights only 50 kilograms. You see the difference by only looking at the size of the motors that this demands much less material consumption to be built."

It weighs 12 times less. That means 12 times less material needed to make it. And it also takes up less space. 

Saving raw materials and energy are major topics everywhere at Germany's premier industrial trade show. 

This Brazilian company Be8 ((Be Eight)) produces biodiesel - from used cooling oil, wood waste and industrial fat residues...1.5 billion liters a year. 

If this truck were powered by the company's fuel - which it calls BeVant - it would emit 99 percent fewer greenhouse gases and hardly any exhaust, according to the company. 
 
+++ SOT Camilo Adas, Director Energy Transition Be8 +++
"You don’t see any type of smoke. And it’s really a very good performance, a very good power production without almost no CO2-emission. // And it was even tested, evaluated  by Mercedes-Benz – and confirmed that the power is the same."

Nearly 90 percent of Brazil's electricity comes from renewables like hydro and wind... making the country a global leader in the area. And putting Brazilian companies in high demand in Europe.

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