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5 tips to avoid eyestrain off the computer screen

Month after month, year after year, jobs and leisure activities require us to spend more time in front of computer screens. Although their quality has improved dramatically, spending hours in front of them means a heavy burden that can end with ocular discomfort.

Experts recommend some simple tips to prevent fatigue, discomfort, itching, and red eyes after a long day of work or relaxation, facing a computer screen.

Among recommendations are the following:

* Blink, take a break and take a break.

According to several investigations to be watching a screen with a high degree of concentration over a long period of time the eyes tend to blink less often than necessary. This ends up generating discomfort such as dry eyes which, over time, can damage vision.

So the advice is to remember blinking, take a breath and eye screen them out during times possible, and take-every-time you can rest at regular intervals away from the computer.

20/20 rule :

While working at a computer or cell phone or read a digital book is a rule that helps reduce eyestrain: every 20 minutes looking for a period of 20 seconds at a distance of 20 feet (about 6 meters) away.

This allows your eyes to refocus, and thereby rest.

* Refer to ophthalmologist

If for reasons of work is necessary to spend many hours daily are working in front of a screen is a good idea to consult an ophthalmologist for, if necessary, prescribe some type of lenses that help focus the eyes or rest is gloss.

* Conduct annual consultations once a year is recommendable to an ophthalmologist to perform a vision test so as to prevent any problems.

* Monitor and prevent glare on the screen.

The eye can canancio largely vitarse if we decrease the reflection of light from a window on the screen. It’s a matter of rearranging the computer, or draw a curtain or use a filter.

Luxor discovered a giant head of Pharaoh Amenhotep III

CAIRO (AFP) – A giant red granite head of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, 3,000 years old, was discovered at the site of his funerary temple in Luxor, announced Sunday the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.

“The head is intact and is 2.5 meters high,” said a statement from the director of Egyptian Antiquities, Zahi Hawass.

“It is a masterpiece of high artistic quality, a portrait of King with finely sculpted lines and full of youth,” he said.

It was the head of a large statue depicting the pharaoh standing with arms folded and with royal symbols in their hands, said Hurig Suruzian, head of the mission that made the discovery.

Amenhotep III, who reigned between 1390 and 1352 BC, was the father of Akhenaten, the ‘heretic Pharaoh’, regarded as the precursor of monotheism for trying to impose in Egypt the exclusive worship of Aten.

Scientists create a cow’s milk that prevent disease

Argentina coach milk created a vaccine that helps prevent diabetes and the formation of tumor cells, Clarin newspaper reported Wednesday.

The milk obtained is treated with chemical additives and obtained by feeding cattle that are based on oilseeds, oils and derived from the grinding as soybean hulls, explained experts from the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA).

Thanks to this special diet, the “super” – as it is called – has lower fat and higher levels of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and vaccenic acid (VA), which strengthen the human immune system and prevent the formation of tumors such as breast and prostate cancer, such as diabetes and fat accumulation in the inner walls of the arteries, the newspaper said.

The tests were made in the dairy herds that INTA has in the towns of Rafaela and Balcarce, in the provinces of Santa Fe and Buenos Aires, respectively.

“There are already pre-commercial products that have been evaluated by the INTI (National Institute of Industrial Technology), such as yogurt, butter and cheese,” said the coordinator of the National Milk INTA, Michael Taverna.

Such milk should not be seen as a remedy, but as a preventive measure in a context of healthy lifestyle, said other scientists.

Gerardo Gagliostro, INTA engineer, told Radio 10 that feeding cows with oil, “ie with foods containing unsaturated oils,” the animal “level of mammary gland produces a profound change in the composition of the milk fat fraction, which becomes more healthy “

Toyota President declared before the U.S. Congress

TOKYO (AP) – Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda, criticized by the withdrawal of units, reported at a U.S. congressional hearing next week, at the request of U.S. lawmakers and offended by understanding customers as the company manages their security problems.
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Japanese officials supported the decision of Toyoda, grandson of the founder of the company to accept a formal invitation to explain the returns and make plans by the largest automaker in the world to improve safety and address the concerns of buyers Car worried.

“I am pleased to go.’ll Speak in all sincerity,” Toyoda told reporters Friday in Nagoya, Japan, near the headquarters of the company.

“I hope you understand our commitment to America and our customers,” Toyoda said.

Toyoda said it would cooperate with U.S. regulators in the analysis of returns of more than eight million vehicles worldwide, including best-selling models as the Corolla, Camry and the hybrid Prius.

Earlier this week, Toyoda said he did not attend the hearings referred to unless it was invited. That decision gave rise to heated criticism in the U.S.. On Thursday, he accepted a request to assist from the president of the General Committee and Government Reform U.S. House, Edolphus Towns, a Democrat from New York.

“The decision was not only me,” Toyoda told reporters in televised comments.

The decision earned praise from the Japanese authorities.

The transport minister of Japan, Seiji Maehara, said he welcomed the decision of Toyoda. Toyota Maehara urged to heed the concerns of its customers and said it was important for the company to explain the episodes of security.

It is crucial to prevent vehicles withdrawals exacerbate political friction, said the foreign minister of Japan, Katsuya Okada.

“I hope that Toyota will soon regain the trust of customers around the world,” Okada told reporters on Friday.

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There are looks that kill … and others turn up the volume to music

BARCELONA (AP) – The current wireless headsets for cell phones often have a striking sight: people seem to talk herself out loud, but really is in the midst of a telephone conversation.

A technological innovation introduced this week by NTT DoCoMo could offer even more bizarre scenes: people who, for no apparent reason, his eyes move quickly to raise one side or until their eyes away.

The Japanese firm has developed .

For example, you can look from right to left to give pause to a song, look to the right twice in a row to advance to the next track or rolled his eyes in the sense of clockwise to increase volume.

However, the company said it still no plans to release this technology to market

Study reveals how mosquitoes smell humans

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Researchers have identified some of the tools that mosquitoes use to smell her human prey and said Wednesday that their findings could help find better ways of repellents or catch or kill pests.

The researchers found 50 genes other than the mosquito Anopheles gambiae to human uses to smell delicious, and characterized how each responded differently to human scents only, including those that are known to attract mosquitoes.

Their analysis, published in the journal Nature, could improve the methods in great shape to repel mosquitoes, a field dominated by a few compounds.

Each gene controls a receptor, a molecular passage in this case attached to a molecule of human scent.

John Carlson of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues transferred the 50 genes inside the nerve cells of a type of fruit fly called Drosophila.

The fruit flies are well understood and do not try to smell humans, so any mosquito gene that produces a response to human scent is probably one used by mosquitoes to be guided to their carnivorous food.

“The results could have implications for the control of malaria, one of the world’s most devastating diseases,” wrote the team of Carlson.

Malaria, caused by a parasite, is spread by female mosquitoes that are in search of human blood. The disease kills about one million people annually, mostly children and most of them in Africa, according to the World Health Organization.

Mosquitoes also carry other varieties of human diseases, including dengue, West Nile virus, yellow fever and several different viruses that cause encephalitis, a brain inflammation that is often lethal.

In two other studies of the same journal, researchers said they have found a special protein called the plasmepsin V malaria parasite uses for entry into human red blood cells.

The experts added that blocking this protein could lead to better remedies against malaria

NASA: Pluto and its color changes from ice sheets move

WASHINGTON (AP) – Pluto is changing color and its ice sheets are moving, according to astronomers announced after seeing the

The images show a lot more red Pluto who was in the last decades, which has surprised the experts. For the general public, the color of the asteroid would be a combination of yellow and orange, but astronomers say is 20% more red than it used to be.

The photographs show the nitrogen ice to grow and shrink, becoming more clear in the north and darker in the south. Astronomers say Pluto is changing but the surfaces of other bodies in the solar system. This is surprising because one season lasts 120 years in some regions of Pluto.

Although Pluto was a planet, astronomers demoted in 2006, calling it a dwarf planet.

Losing the remote control will not be a problem in the future

- The technology industry is moving away from remote controls, mouse and joystick, to approach something that comes without batteries, no wires or without instructions.

His name is simple: hand.

In the coming months, Microsoft and major computer makers will begin selling devices that allow people to change television channels or move documents on a computer screen with simple hand gestures. The technology, which is one of the most significant changes to human interface devices since we saw the mouse and computer, in the early 1980s, was here last week in private sessions during CES (International Fair Consumer Electronics).

Previous attempts associated with similar technology have proven to be outdated and disappointing. In contrast, the latest crop of devices operated by means of gestures comes with a refreshing surprise: really work.

“Everything is finally going in the right direction,” said GestureTek, a company that makes software for devices that operate by means of gestures.

Often, when speaking of gesture control manufacturers refer to the scenes of the movie “Minority Report” (Sentencia previa, as it was called at its premiere in 2002) to explain its functioning. There, the character played by Tom Cruise moving images and documents on computer screens of the future with some arm movements. The real life technologies require devices that are similarly easy to use and a little ingenuity.

Position yourself standing in front of the television with a camera that has technology and can sign on with a soft knock on the air. The channel change requires a turn of the hand and to raise the volume should be given a pat upward. If the display is a photograph, it can enlarge holding hands in the air and separating it can shrink and clasping her hands as you would with your fingers on a cell phone whose screen has touch-sensitive functions.

The revolution will be more important gesture toward the end of this year when Microsoft releases a new video game system known as: Project Natal. The game system is Microsoft’s attempt to surpass the Wii from Nintendo.

While the Wii requires hand controls hypersensitive to translate body movement into on-screen action, Natal, Microsoft, you need nothing but the human body. Microsoft has made a show of games such as burning, where people can jump, throw balls and sidestep opponents using natural movements. Other games allow people to adopt different contorted positions and do tricks on skateboards.

Just as Microsoft’s game system is rocking the market, the same should happen with TVs from Hitachi, Japan, which will allow people to light the screen, change channels and increase or decrease the volume of their equipment with simple movements of hand.

It is hoped that future laptops also have built-in cameras that can capture similar gestures. This technology could make the tools of today’s touch screen to become obsolete as people use gestures to control, for example, the role of forward and rewind a DVD.

To get these functions to life, device manufacturers must conquer what adds up to one of the great challenges of computer science. The electronics had to see the world around her in detail through small digital cameras. This task meant to give the TV, for example, a way to identify people sitting on a couch and to recognize a particular hand movement as a command and not as if the action of scratching his nose.

Small things like the sun, the lights in the rooms and the annoying habit of people to make an unexpected movement are just some of the obstacles that companies had to overcome.

GestureTek, which has offices in Silicon Valley and Ottawa has spent a quarter century trying to perfect its technology and has achieved some success. Assists television forecasters, and collaborates with museums and hotels to create large interactive screens.

This past work, however, has relied on limited and standard cameras that view the world in two dimensions. The major incident involving the latest technology comes to sign through the use of cameras that see the world in three dimensions, thus adding that crucial level of perception that helps a computer or TV to recognize when someone leans forward or hand nods.

PrimeSense, a new firm in Tel Aviv, have struggled to provide 3-D chips for the gaming system Natal, Microsoft.

At CES, which was held last week in Las Vegas, executives and engineers and GestureTek Canesten were held in suites at the Hilton, near the floor where the conference would take place, while escorting executives of Asian firms electronics manufacturers when going in and out of secret meetings.

Similarly, sessions conducted PrimeSense which could be by invitation only, in his small office, surrounded by walls, and prohibited any photographs or video of their products.

On the show, a camera that used the chip PrimeSense could distinguish between multiple people sitting on a sofa and even could make the difference between the jacket, shirt and shirt of a person. And with this technology, it is impossible (for how hard you try) to lose the remote.

New online virus on internet in hidden email – H1N1 Flu

MADRID (AFP) – Hackers have taken advantage of worldwide interest in H1N1 influenza virus to create a giving access to the computer and confidential information that travels through an email, said Friday the Pandasecurity computer security company.

This email, from an unknown address, said that avian H1N1 is a potential economic conspiracy of pharmaceutical companies, and requests to read an attachment, which reveals “the conspiracy” as the Spanish company statement.

The opening of that document releases the virus, which then allows the sender access to confidential information.

The computer security company that discovered the virus claimed to have detected in heavy traffic late on this post.

“Its creators have used a topical subject, the influenza (H1N1) infected programs to spread,” he said in a statement a senior Pandasecurity, Luis Corrons, adding that “puts at risk the confidentiality of user data” .

Hubble telescope shows a dazzling cosmic spectacle

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Hubble Space Telescope is providing first-rate cosmic spectacle.

NASA on Wednesday unveiled the first pictures of deep space taken by Hubble since it was repaired a few months ago at a cost billionaire. The astronauts installed two new cameras will, other scientific instruments and replacing broken parts.

“Hubble has returned to action. Together, NASA and Hubble are offering new views of the universe,” said astronomer Heide Hammel.

The ten images of galaxies and nebulae _nubes of gas and dust estelar_ are sharper than those who had taken the telescope in the same places before his fifth and last update. One that looks like a huge butterfly, is a breeding ground for stars.

The image of this nebula shows details not revealed before, said one of the experts of the mission, Dave Leckrone.

The glow that emerges from this and other photos is hot gas and dust given off by the stars, he said. I likened to a light bulb filament with the star and gas as the blaze as bright.

Leckrone said the photos are a monument not only to science but can also evoke a sense of spirituality.

“What I see is the greatness of creation, any event that was created,” said Leckrone told The Associated Press.

The most striking images are those that show the most violent face of the cosmos: the birth and death stars.

One shows the Carina Nebula, about 7,500 light years away. A light year is about 10 trillion (right) of kilometers (6 trillion miles). The photo shows a cloud ocher bombarded by radiation. When the new Hubble camera uses a different light spectrum, the cloud disappears and the stars are emerging. They only have 100,000 years of life and fire do whites.

These bundles are cosmic debris “fired at breakneck speed to what is going to be a planetary system,” explained astronomer Bob O’Connell of the University of Virginia.

Another image shows a cluster of thousands of stars, a white field points tinged with blue and red stars.

All but one of Hubble pictures are inside the Milky Way galaxy. The remaining five spiral galaxies caught in one picture.

Hubble will soon focus his lens at the edge of the universe and take photos of objects created shortly after the primordial explosion.

“Our vision of the universe and our place in it will never be the same,” said Charles Bolden, NASA administrator, who as he piloted the space shuttle astronaut that put Hubble in orbit 19 years ago.

Since the repairs, Leckrone said he has not been a single glitch with the telescope.

Discover one of the oldest synagogues in the world of Second Temple era

Jerusalem, Sept. 11 .- Israeli archaeologists say they have discovered one of the oldest synagogues that are known from the time of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, where they found a stone with an engraving of a seven-branched Jewish candelabrum.

The discovery was made in an excavation in the town of Migdal, located in the Galilee (northern Iraq) and were conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in a place where it was planned to build a hotel.

The synagogue, whose construction is estimated between 50 BC and 100 AD, has at its center a square stone adorned on all four sides by high-reliefs, one of whom can appreciate a “menorah,” the typical chandelier Jewish seven-branched, “as never before seen”, according to archaeologists.

The nave is surrounded by benches for the participants and is carpeted with a mosaic floor, while its walls are painted with frescoes.

“We talked a unique and exciting discovery. It is the first time it has been discovered the decoration of a menorah in the days when the Second Temple was still standing. This is the first discovered in a Jewish context and the beginning of period early Roman, “said the excavation’s director, Dina Avshalom-Gorni.

According to the expert, the print was probably made by an artist who saw the seven-branched menorah with his own eyes in the Temple of Jerusalem. The synagogue discovered joins only six in the world believed to date back the Second Temple. ”

The Second Temple, where sacrifices were made known as korbanot “was built seventy years after the destruction of the First Temple or Solomon by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar and was destroyed by the Romans at the end of the Jewish Revolt that began in the 66 AD

The town of Migdal, where the synagogue recently discovered, performed according to Jewish sources a significant role in the era of the Great Jewish Revolt was the seat of operations Matatiyahu Ben Yosef (Flavius Josephus), commander of the rebellion in the Galilee and known Jewish-Roman historian of first century

Also included in the New Testament, as the population (Magdala, in Aramaic) where he was from Mary Magdalene.

The motor industry changes its strategy and aims for hybrid and electric cars.

PSA Peugeot Citroën has announced an alliance with Mitsubishi to develop and produce components for the electric car, while working on the design of hybrid or electric car. More quietly working the wiring porriñesa Auto, which manufactures cables for specific car powered by electricity, for three years investigating how to respond to new market and has developed an electronic control system to automatically turn off the car in case of accident or fire

J. CARNEIRO | VIGO The electric car has moved from fiction to reality in just one year. The bet of the big manufacturers for these vehicles are more respectful of the environment and lower consumption, and government incentives have forced industries to change their motor strategy and betting choice in this segment. Galician companies do not want to lose this race and have to work to develop components for electric cars and hybrids, with the assistance of the Automotive Technology Center of Galicia (CTAG).

The first company to take this step was wiring Auto, which manufactures cables for specific batteries of these vehicles. This firm, whose R & D is at the center of Gándaras As in O Porriño (Pontevedra), takes three years investigating new cabling systems for electric cars. Marcos González, director general of wiring and wiring Auto Driving, said that this new product line also involved other Spaniards, in United States and Portugal.

In general terms, this company has developed a new type of aluminum and copper conductors for starter batteries of electric vehicles and hybrids. “Mix the two metals, rather than using only copper, which allows cutting the cable and lighten the weight of the plant about 40%”, says Gonzalez. This in turn reduces the consumption of the vehicle.

This ensures that the project manager is in a phase “well advanced” and that in the coming weeks will start testing vehicles in the hands of some customers who prefer not to disclose for obvious reasons of confidentiality. Auto wiring has also designed an electronic control system for electric vehicles whose function is to disconnect the vehicle in case of collision, overturning or fire.

Gonzalez said that the production of cable will have a specific weight in electric cars, because the wiring is the “nervous system” of the vehicle. Within this system, the fiber optic increasingly gaining ground, according to the manager. Auto wiring has among its major customers to supply the Volkswagen group-wiring of the new Seat Exeo, as well as first-tier suppliers such as TRW and Faurecia.

Behind the first incursions of the suppliers in this segment Galicians CTAG is the center of reference in Spain participating in a project of the European Union (EU) called Green Car sought to lay the foundations of ecological car of the future.

This vehicle is most likely electric or hybrid, so the CTAG has focused its research in three basic lines: control and management of the electric car electronics, new materials and associated processes, and new models of traction. The last of the line addresses the connection between the engine and the electric or hybrid drive system of the vehicle, while the second concerns the search for new biodegradable materials, durable and lightweight, such as polymers and fibers produced from starch corn, pine cellulose. These developments CTAG is working with the Galician companies and multinationals.

However, CTAG is also devoting large resources to the design of infrastructure for recharging electric cars. “It’s one of the main problems to be solved, while a great opportunity for us,” explained the direction from the center. The introduction of electric vehicles in the market is setting up a network of recharging the batteries to power plug. Governments like those in Israel already have in place adequate infrastructure in areas such as parking lots, shopping malls, airports, hotels, etc..

One of the most powerful multinational betting on electric cars is PSA Peugeot Citroën, which this week confirmed that it will work with Mitsubishi to develop and produce components for such vehicles. In this sense, both groups are working on their own in developing its own hybrid vehicle to the mains plug.

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U.S. offers more courses on the internet … free

The video sharing site YouTube recently created EDU on YouTube youtube.com / edu for more than 100 schools and universities that offer education on the internet.

Among the thousands of videos on YouTube are praised EDU classes professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Walter Lewin, whose clips have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

Other institutions of higher education with videos on YouTube are the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.

Interested in dentistry? Then the YouTube channel of the School of Dentistry, University of Michigan could be the right place, with a total of 426 videos.

The courses offered are free on YouTube and EDU do not award merit, but the number of schools that offer classes on the internet that can be credited toward a degree is flourishing.

According to a November 2008 study conducted by the Sloan Consortium, more than 3.9 million students in United States took at least one course online in 2007, the latest year with available statistics.

That represented an increase of 12% over the previous year, according to Sloan, a nonprofit organization whose mission is “integrating education ‘online’ to the dominant center of higher education.”

The economic crisis, rising unemployment and higher costs of gasoline in the survey were cited as factors that could fuel the demand for online education.

Schools and universities, however, are not the only knowledge that offer free online.

Nature Education, for example, launched Scitable.com, a site described as “a common space for learning science.”

“What we wanted was to Scitable (…) take all the tools and technology available today,” said Vikram Savkar, editorial director of Nature Education, a division of the British publisher Nature Publishing Group.

“One of our goals is to level the playing field in terms of science,” he told AFP. “Most countries in the developed world believes that labor force in science and research is key to national development.”

“Science affects almost everything-medicine, agriculture, industry, but access to information and high quality science education is distributed unequally in the world,” added Savkar.

“In many cases it is expensive. In many cases it simply is unaffordable,” he explained.

Savkar said Scitable, launched in January, has users in over 85 countries to consult the site content, joining a community of teachers and students using their tools of learning.

“It is not a social network with a purely social,” he said. “It’s work to teach and learn.”

For now Scitable is devoted to genetics. But plans to expand the topics to molecular biology, biotechnology and neuroscience, among others.

Probiotics prevent colds Child

In a study in China, young children who drank a mixture of these bacteria, called probiotics, milk twice a day during the winter and spring colds suffered less, needed less antibiotics and fewer lost school days than other children who drank milk alone.

Previous work had shown that probiotics can help people suffering from various diseases, since these bacteria enhance the immune response to invaders. But it is unknown whether they are as effective in preventing illness.

The study in China involving 326 children between 3 and 5 years, which included three randomized groups: one took the milk with Lactobacillus acidophilus bacteria, another received the same body but with a strain of another bacterium, Bifidobacterium animalis and Finally only drank milk with a placebo (controls).

The children took the formulas for testing twice a day between November 2005 and May 2006, the supervision was conducted by school staff during the week and parents / guardians during the weekends.

In the journal Pediatrics, published authors who, unlike the placebo group, children who ate the Lactobacillus had 53 percent fewer colds, 41 percent less coughing and 28 percent less mucus.

Instead, the group treated with Lactobacillus / Bifidobacterium had fewer symptoms: 72 percent fewer fevers, 62 percent less coughing and 59 percent less mucus.

That meant, for example, 66 cases of fever in the control group, 31 in the cohort treated with Lactobacillus and only 18 in the group treated with the probiotic combination. All cohorts had the same size, with about 100 children.

Also, when children treated with probiotics had a fever, cough or mucus, recovered significantly faster than the control group.

In addition, the duration of disease was reduced by 32 percent with the Lactobacillus and 48 percent with the combination Lactobacillus / Bifidobacterium.

The team also noted that, compared with the control group, antibiotic use was 68 percent lower in participants treated with Lactobacillus and 84 percent lower in those who took Lactobacillus / Bifidobacterium.

Finally, the authors explained that the children treated with probiotics failed to kindergarten or school between 28 and 32 per cent less than controls.

The combination of probiotics used in the study is being marketed as “HOWARU Protect” by Danisco, Madison, Wisconsin.

The team led by Dr. Gregory J. Read, Danisco believes that probiotics reduce the need for drugs, whose use in pediatrics is receiving special attention.

Still, reading some pointed questions. “Not all probiotics are the same (…) not all do everything,” he told Reuters Health. Some strains, for example, are effective against allergies, or to prevent diarrhea.

For the study, said the team used organisms (and dose) of carefully selected “to” prevent colds and flu. ” This suggests that the results would not be applicable to other bacteria or diseases.

Aid for electric cars and hybrids

Electric car The automotive industry prepares to tackle a new market: the electric cars and hybrids. There are manufacturers such as Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan and Renault are close to launching such models, which aim to protect the environment and reduce dependence on oil. Research and development of electric and hybrid cars are very complex and therefore their acquisition is quite expensive when compared to a Diesel car or Petrol.

The Government, they said the Minister of Industry Miguel Sebastián, claims that the company has easy access to the purchase of such vehicles and announced earlier this month that will grant aid of up to 7,000 euros for the purchase of a tourism electric or hybrid. In the case of trucks and commercial vehicles, this figure can reach 20,000 euros. This is the Movel Plan, which has a budget of 10 million euros. This is the second government aid to the automobile sector after a few months ago which came into force on Plan 2000E.

According to Sebastian, and hybrid electric car represents the future of the automotive and estimates that in 2014 Spanish roads a million vehicles of this type.

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