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Order of the High Court of Rajasthan regarding installation of a petrol pump near a crematorium and high-tension line, 05/03/2025

Order of the High Court of Rajasthan in the matter of Deepak Acharya Vs Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited dated 05/03/2025. The Rajasthan High Court has admitted a petition challenging installation of a Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) petrol pump near a crematorium and high-tension line. The NOCs to establish the …

Ford to invest $11bn and have 40 hybrid and fully electric vehicles by 2022

Ford Motor Co will significantly increase its planned investments in electric vehicles to $11bn by 2022 and have 40 hybrid and fully electric vehicles in its model line-up, the company’s chairman, Bill Ford, said on Sunday at the Detroit auto show. The investment figure is sharply higher than a previously …

Ford balances mobility priorities for India

Shelves B500 platform while driving investments in Zoomcar Ford Motor Company has shelved its B500 compact car platform planned for India in 2017, according to recent global news reports. Interestingly, it was barely a few weeks ago when its recently created mobility arm invested in Zoomcar, India’s self-drive car rental …

Ford: New remanufacturing method could cut emissions by 50%

Ford has developed an innovative recycling technique that aims to give a new lease of life to old engines that would otherwise be scrapped. When car engines fail they are typically just taken out and replaced because traditional engine remanufacturing techniques can be prohibitively expensive When car engines fail they …

Ford focuses on water after hitting 2015 reduction target

Ford is now in the process of setting a new long-term water reduction target having achieved its 2015 goal to cut global water use per vehicle by 30% two years ahead of schedule. According to the company's 2013-14 Sustainability Report, Ford reduced the average amount of water used to make …

Ford joins greenhouse gas reporting programme

CHENNAI: Detroit biggie Ford on Tuesday became the first automaker to join a voluntary greenhouse gas reporting programme recently established in India. Participation in the India program builds on Ford's leadership in greenhouse gas reporting. The company already participates in similar programs in the United States, China, Canada, Mexico, Brazil …

Ford joins greenhouse gas reporting programme

Detroit biggie Ford on Tuesday became the first automaker to join a voluntary greenhouse gas reporting programme recently established in India. Participation in the India program builds on Ford's leadership in greenhouse gas reporting. The company already participates in similar programs in the United States, China, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and …

Plans afoot for Honda plant in Gujarat

Honda may soon follow erstwhile JV partner Hero MotoCorp into Gujarat, with plans to set up its fourth two-wheeler plant in the state, sources told FE. The Japanese company is believed to have scouted for land near Sanand, where both Tata Motors and Ford have set up their manufacturing units. …

U.S. Sets Higher Fuel Efficiency Standards

The Obama administration issued on Tuesday the final version of new rules that require automakers to nearly double the average fuel economy of new cars and trucks by 2025. The standards — which mandate an average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon for the 2025 model year — will …

Demand for diesel vehicles pushes July sales

Demand for diesel vehicles pushed up sales of the country’s leading auto makers in July amid concerns that the sagging economic growth and high fuel prices and interest rates will continue to pose challenges to auto sales in Asia’s third largest economy. Nine of the industry’s 19 leading automobile manufacturers …

Toyota, BMW up 'green car' partnership

Toyota Motor Corp. and BMW AG will expand their alliance on so-called eco-friendly cars, with the Japanese automaker providing its hybrid and fuel-cell technologies to the German partner in exchange for technologies that reduce vehicle weight, Toyota sources said Monday. By sharing their technologies in the promising field, the two …

Automakers urge Pranab not to raise duty on diesel cars

New Delhi Urging the government not to raise excise duty on diesel cars, top executives of country's leading automobile firms met the finance ministry officials on Wednesday. The finance ministry, which has been mulling over imposing additional levy on diesel vehicles, in the meantime has asked automakers to provide production …

Ford continues commitment to environment, donates $10,000 to Forest Conservation Project

Ford announced the winning project under their Environmental Conservation and Grants program in Sri Lanka. The ‘Fire Prevention in Knuckles Forest Reserve’ project was selected as the winner after heavy jury examination and will receive upto $10,000 from Ford Motor Company to implement their proposal. Ford Motor Company's Conservation and …

Car companies drive into rural India

Use non-posh outlets to serve non-metro and rural customers who reflect rising income levels and unmet demand. Car makers are reaching out to consumers in rural centres as high lending rates slow urban demand. Though overall passenger vehicle sales are down over the first eight months of the current financial …

U.S. Proposes To Double Auto Fuel Economy By 2025

The Obama administration proposed on Wednesday doubling auto fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, a White House energy priority that has come under scrutiny in Congress. The plan grew out of an uneasy agreement between the administration, automakers and environmental groups to reduce U.S. dependence on oil …

Floods Force Auto Makers in Thailand to Halt Production

Thailand's auto exporters are being hit by supply-chain disruptions following the worst flooding the country has seen in nearly half a century. The Southeast Asian nation is a major production and export hub for global auto makers, including Toyota Motor Co., Ford Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co., and all …

Deadline For Auto Fuel Economy Proposal To Slip

The Obama administration will push back the release of the most ambitious proposal ever for automakers to improve fuel efficiency of their passenger cars, sport utility vehicles and pickups. The U.S. Transportation Department and the Environmental Protection Agency intended to put out the draft plan for model years 2017-25 for …

JLR to set up Rs 2,655 cr plant in UK

This is part of a plan to invest £1.5 billion a year for the next five years. Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover on Monday confirmed fresh investment of £355 million (about Rs 2,655 crore) in a new facility to manufacture advanced technology, low-emission engines in the United Kingdom. The new …

Hybrid in a Trade Squeeze

For General Motors and the Obama administration, the new Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid represents the automotive future, the culmination of decades of high-tech research financed partly with federal dollars. But as G.M. prepares to start selling them here by the end of this year, the Chinese government is putting heavy …

Peugeot hitches its R4k-cr wagon to Gujarat

Ahmedabad PSA Peugeot Citroën, France’s largest carmaker and Europe’s second largest, will invest R4,000 crore to build a factory at Sanand near Ahmedabad for 1,65,000 cars yearly and creating 5,000 direct jobs. The integrated manufacturing plant, which will come up in 600 acre, will roll out its first Peugeot car …

Peugeot set to establish R4,000-crore plant in Sanand

Ahmedabad Barely a month after inking a R4,000-crore deal for setting up an integrated car manufacturing and engine facility with American automobile giant Ford Motors, the Gujarat government is all set to announce yet another big ticket deal in the auto sector in a day or two. State government sources …

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