Electric cars available for rental in Japan
Japan's first car-rental agency to feature electric cars opened its doors in hopes of tapping into a fledging market for environmentally friendly transportation. The Kobe Eco Car Co. offers 24
Japan's first car-rental agency to feature electric cars opened its doors in hopes of tapping into a fledging market for environmentally friendly transportation. The Kobe Eco Car Co. offers 24
Toyota Motor Corp., stepping up its bid to be a big player in environmentally friendly cars, said it expects to export 20,000 gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles a year to North America and Europe
vehicular emissions account for two-thirds of the total pollution in Delhi. A study conducted by the Central Road Research Institute shows that vehicles generate 64 per cent of the total
Pollution control agencies are as toothless as the automobile and fuel industry is apathetic to deteriorating urban air quality
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and three of the capital's 23 ward offices will jointly start a subsidy system in August to induce car-rental agents to use environmental friendly cars. The
Over 300 Delhi petrol dealers have launched a Petrol Green project, which envisages amongst other things, plantation of saplings, conducting educative workshops and free pollution checks in a bid to
People in Europe's car-lifted cities are likely to start breathing a little easier in the next few years because of tough new anti-pollution rules announced in Brussels this week by the 15-memeber
The environment authority for Delhi has suggested, among others, phasing out all pre-1990 autorickshaws and taxis, among other things, to combat pollution. This has been stated in a report of the
The European Union has announced new compulsory fuel and vehicle emission specifications for 2000, and even tighter norms for 2005, in a bid to help Europe's traffic-clogged cities breathe more
With the July 1 deadline for the emission test for pollution control certification nearing, the agencies involved in enforcement are taking up a test campaign against polluting vehicles.The
Twenty-eight European countries, Canada and the US pledged on Wednesday to phase out leaded petrol by 2005 in a move that will demand costly changes in refinery techniques. The decision came during a
The government is set to phase out leaded petrol all over the country within the next two years depending upon the success of such a measure to be brought into force in the capital from September
Delhi will get only unleaded petrol from oil refineries from September 1, according to a circular issued to the refineries from the Union petroleum ministry, no leaded petro will be supplied to the
The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization will develop fuel-efficient, clean-burning vehicles in cooperation with six automakers, including Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi
Japanese automakers and oil refiners and distributors have begun jointly researching technology for reducing auto emissions. The research will be used to develop low-emission engines and fuel. The
If the number of vehicles on Delhi roads continues to increase unabated, within two years they would be crawling at an average speed of 11 km per hour, a report said. The report by the Central Raod
This one is for Ripkey's "Believe It or Not" - a "zero emission" vehicle, so called because its exhaust is cleaner than the surrounding air. Japanese auto-giant Honda Motors Company Limited recently
Taken aback by the outcry over his reported statements vis-a-vis a study on vehicular pollution-associated health problems, the Delhi Health Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, today clarified that neither
CRRI : data pertaining to Pollution Under Control certificates issued by the authorised pollution checking centres in the city is doubtful, reveals a recently-released report by the Central Road
Chrysler, the smallest of the "Big Three" US carmakers and currently in throes of a $40bn merger with Germany's Daimler-Benz said that it planned to produce around 2,000 electric mini-vans in 1999 at