Chevrolet Metro tops fuel-efficient models
The US Environment Protection Agency has released its list of 1999-model year vehicles that get the best gas mileage, and the Chevrolet Metro comes out on top with 41 miles per gallon (mpg) for city
The US Environment Protection Agency has released its list of 1999-model year vehicles that get the best gas mileage, and the Chevrolet Metro comes out on top with 41 miles per gallon (mpg) for city
At the recent Paris Motor Show car makers vied with each other to show small, economical cars. The tiny Volkswagen Lupo is billed as the world's first three-litre car. It is the first car capable of
For all its modern looks and aerodynamic curves, the General Motors EV1-one of the most advanced electric cars in the world-is powered by 19th century technology. Its lead acid power pack is little
Gupta : If the metro rail system is not developed fast, deaths due to air pollution in Delhi will reach alarming proportions, warned the Delhi transport minister Rajendra Gupta on Friday. Speaking at
Welcoming the agreement between Europe's environment ministers and car makers to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new cars, United Nations Enviornment Programme (UNE) Executive Director, Klaus
Dhaka's city's air pollution has aggravated and it will further worsen next winter due to dry weather. An inter-ministerial meeting, chaired by Environment Minister Begum Sajeda Chowdhury, observed
The Environment Pollution Control Authority of National Capital Region will soon recommend phasing out of commercial vehicles manufactured prior to 1990. This was disclosed by Dilip Biswas, Chairman,
Air in Riccarton Road has a concentration of the cancer-causing toxic chemical benzene that exceeds international standards. An Institute of Environmental Science and
A committee set up by the ministry of non-conventional energy resources will soon submit a draft policy on zero emission vehicles (ZEVs). The committee is headed by Ramesh A Mashelkar, director
The Delhi transport department has sent over 9,000 20-year old commercial vehicles off the Delhi's roads as per the Supreme Court order banning the plying of these polluting
Miles to go after unleadead fuel, phaseout :With all commercial vehicles over 20 years being phased out completely starting today, a major deadline regarding vehicular pollution has been met.
A month after leaded petrol was phased out in the city in accordance with the Supreme Court's directives in an attempt to "make the fourth most polluted city in the world cleaner and greener",
Phasing out of old commercial vehicles in Delhi begins on Friday with 20-year old automobiles being shown the door in a bid to clean up the fourth most polluted city in the
Car manufacturers and oilpersons share the burden of cutting vehicular pollution in Europe
The Supreme Court (SC) has banned plying of all 15-year-old motor commercial vehicles including buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws in the National Capital Territory (NCR) from October 2 this year. The
Levels of carcinogenic pollutants are alarmingly high in Calcutta s air
The Budget has provided the automobile industry an incentive to destory urban air quality
Environmentalists and local entrepreneurs in Bangladesh have appreciated some of the new measures proposed in the budget for 1998-99. They have hailed the budget as "eco-friendly'. The finance
after fighting militancy for a decade, Kashmir
The Delhi government is planning to appeal to the Supreme Court to extend the three-month deadline to phase out all the commercial vehicles which are older than 15 years from the city roads,till