Automobile makers have good words for the draft policy that has set a target for at least a fourth of new vehicles sold in Delhi to be run on electricity by 2023. However, they are skeptical on the issue of the required charging infrastructure and the lack of clarity on …
Swaraj Baggonkar / Mumbai November 4, 2009, 0:48 IST Tata Motors, India's biggest auto company by revenue, has speeded bus production at its massive Dharwad facility, primarily to avoid any delay in honouring its commitment to supply low-floor buses to the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC). Both Tata Motors and Chennai-based …
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar NEW DELHI: The public transport initiative in the Capital was reviewed at a meeting between the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution Control Authority panel head Bhure Lal and member Sunita Narain and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely and senior officials here on Thursday. …
Ashok Leyland gets orders for 3,200 vehicles. The bus procurement scheme of States under the JNNURM was announced as a part of the fiscal stimulus package to provide impetus to the commercial vehicle producers. Priyanka Vyas New Delhi, June 3 Tata Motors has bagged a lion
13 May 2009, 0300 hrs IST, Abantika Ghosh, TNN NEW DELHI: If you have been wondering why the number of low-floor buses in the city do not seem to be increasing, here's why. Delhi has not received a single low floor bus since July 2008. The next lot of 2,500 …
MUMBAI: By June 30, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) will augment its 3,900 strong fleet by 25%. This would mean not only less crowded buses but also introduction of newer routes and better connectivity. Of the total number of buses, 550 will be semi-low floor non-AC single deck …
New Delhi: The Delhi Government on Wednesday confirmed placing orders for 2,500 buses for the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) for the upcoming 2010 Games before a High Court bench.
As Delhi awaits the next consignment of 200 low-floor DTC buses, to be delivered by April this year, nearly 1,000 DTC bus drivers will be trained at the Driver Training Institute. The institute in Burari was set up in 2005 by Ashok Leyland in 2005 in collaboration with the Delhi …
Staff Reporter NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan on Monday demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into purchase of 625 non-air-conditioned low-floor buses by the Transport Department of the Government on the ground that these buses had been purchased for Rs.41.74 lakh each from Tata Motors …
Metal costs, largely responsible for vehicle price hikes, will soon cease to pinch the automobile manufacturers' margins as they become increasingly aware of the benefits of using engineering plastic instead of metals in vehicles. Home-grown automotive players like Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Bajaj Auto, Hero Honda, TVS Motors and Maruti …
