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Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) regarding use of environmental compensation funds, 29/04/2025

Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …

Highly charged motoring

DESIGNED especially for city and suburban motoring, this handsome automobile is smooth, quiet and easy to drive, and being powered by electricity it can be charged up at home. Tempting? The sales pitch is not for one of the new electric cars from General Motors, Nissan or Renault, but for …

Maruti comes up with hybrid cars for Games

Maruti Suzuki India Limited Managing Director and CEO Shinzo Nakanishi and Delhi Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely (in the driver's seat) at the handing over of Maruti Suzuki hybrid cars in New Delhi on Tuesday. NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki on Tuesday handed over the first lot of hybrid cars -- …

Cos zoom in on Chennai for R&D, design centres

CHENNAI is fast emerging a hub in engineering design, R &D; and product development for a number of global players. Companies across sectors- automobile, telecom, infrastructure, wind energy have set up their centres in the city encouraged by the good eco-system, talent pool and growing number of original equipment manufacturers …

40 km for Rs 5

STUDENTS at SMS Institute of Technology in Lucknow are desperately waiting for mechanical engineering professor Bharat Raj Singh—to see his motorbike that runs on air. Fondly called hawai (airy) professor, Singh has built the engine and is working on the bike design with Onkar Singh, mechanical engineering professor at Harcourt …

BMW weaves city car out of carbon fibre used in F1

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG will cocoon passengers of a battery-powered city car in the same lightweight material used to protect Formula One drivers. Marking the auto industry

Hydrogen vehicles: Fuel of the future?

Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, largely forgotten as attention turned to biofuels and batteries, are staging a comeback. Jeff Tollefson investigates.

Running on empty

When Puli Ravi Kumar, 42, assistant professor at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, discussed his dream project of making a car that would run on air with the director of the institute, he was greeted with a mixture of bafflement and boredom. But support came from an unexpected …

Auto SMEs in Bangalore: Does innovation promote employment and labour productivity?

The paper examines the influence of technological innovations on employment and labour productivity growth of a sample of 72 small and medium enterprises in the auto component sector of Bangalore. Innovative SMEs, engaged in both product and process innovations, could achieve a considerable increase in their sales and employment during …

Auto SMEs in Bangalore: Does innovation promote employment and labour productivity?

The paper examines the influence of technological innovations on employment and labour productivity growth of a sample of 72 small and medium enterprises in the auto component sector of Bangalore. Innovative SMEs, engaged in both product and process innovations, could achieve a considerable increase in their sales and employment during …

Maruti recalls one lakh A-Stars

In one of the biggest recalls recorded in the Indian automobile industry, leading car marker Maruti Suzuki India on Tuesday announced that it had recalled nearly one lakh

eDriven

Electric and hybrid vehicles are gaining a foothold because they are cheap and clean. But batteries are either expensive or short-lived. Their future rests with industry

Reva scales up with GM

Collaboration between General Motors and the Reva Electric Car Co. will for the first time make battery-operated cars widely available in India. Under the tie-up with GM, the Spark will go electric using Reva technology. The Reva will continue to be produced as a separate car. Both cars will be …

The future of filling up

Between 2010 and 2012, car manufacturers are planning to introduce dozens of models that are either partially or completely powered by rechargeable batteries. Plug-in hybrid vehicles like the Chevy Volt, which will have a gasoline engine to fall back on after about 40 miles, will take up to eight hours …

A new line of CNG engines in the works

Maruti Suzuki Close To Developing Engine That Runs On MPFI Technology In Both CNG & Petrol Modes Chanchal Pal Chauhan NEW DELHI ENGINEERS at Maruti Suzuki

India speeds past China in auto exports

Small Car Expertise Gives Edge New Delhi: China may be the world

Charge!

The Economist GREENS may not like it, but once people have enough to eat and somewhere tolerable to live, their thoughts turn to buying a car. The number of cars in the rich world will grow only slowly in the years ahead, but car ownership elsewhere is about to go …

Future trucks: Cleaning up the kings of the road

Super-streamlining, pothole power and heat recycling: a spate of innovation is about to transform diesel-guzzling trucks into green giants.

BJP leader seeks white paper on low-floor buses

A senior leader of the Delhi BJP, Vijender Gupta, demanded that the Delhi government should issue a white paper on the purchase of low-floor buses in the Capital. The Congress in its assembly election manifesto promised to replace Blueline buses with low-floor buses if it was voted to power. But …

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