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 …
The lines are shut at the second plant of Hyundai Motor India (hmil) near Chennai and hundreds of unfinished i 10s are sitting on the brand new assembly line as journalists tour the new facility that the South Korean carmaker has established at a cost of Rs 4,000 crore. Almost …
Two-wheeler maker Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honda Motor Company, Japan, plans to launch a new motorcycle during the first half of FY09. The new motorcycle would be launched to suit the conditions in cities, N K Rattan, divisional head, HMSI, said while unveiling its …
The spectacular growth of vehicle use in India and growing environmental concerns have thrown the spotlight on Suzuki Motor. Suzuki, maker of small cars and motorbikes, may be a minnow compared with its larger Japanese rivals. But at a time when demand for cars is exploding in emerging markets and …
The dream of climate-friendly, petroleum-free motoring is creeping closer - thanks to a clutch of breakthroughs in nanotechnology. Several recently reported lab findings promise to vastly improve the safety and performance of the high-capacity batteries that electric cars will need, at last making them a viable alternative to today's petroleum-powered …
After the Rs 1-lakh Nano, Tata Motors is now embarking on another path-defining move to come out with electric and hybrid vehicles in both passenger, including its flagship Indica, and commercial segments. According to industry sources, the company is working on blended fuel, partial and complete hybrids, electric vehicles and …
The European Commission has for the first time adopted proposals to encourage the development as well as marketing of clean and safe hydrogen cars. Brussels however acknowledged that the technology may have little impact in the next 10 years. One of the proposals is to set up the Fuel Cells …
the Indian government has announced an ambitious plan to phase in a million hydrogen-fuelled vehicles by 2020. Seventy-five per cent of these vehicles will be two- and three-wheelers, according to the Union ministry of new and renewable energy (mnre). A hydrogen-based power-generating capacity of 1,000 mw and Rs 25,000 crore …
Toyota's Prius hybrid stole a march on the car industry. What comes next? WHETHER in Los Angeles, Tokyo or London, the Prius, Toyota's trail blazing petrol-electric hybrid car, has become a common sight since the second (and much-improved) version was launched three years ago. The Prius has since achieved cult …
cars are designed to perform at their optimum when accelerated at one particular level. A slight deviation from that and the vehicles constantly lose energy. Whether on gear one, two, three or four, you unwittingly lose out on fuel efficiency if you don't stick to the optimum level fixed in …
German automaker BMW has announced the launching of its prototype Hydrogen 7, the world's first luxury car powered by liquid hydrogen. The vehicles will be manufactured in a European country. A limited number will be in the market in 2007. Equipped with a combustion engine capable of running either on …
The us Trade and Development Agency has recently awarded a us $296,000 grant to Pune to reduce the city's vehicular air pollution through innovative measures. The grant will fund a project to retrofit diesel-fuelled buses with technologies designed to reduce toxic emissions as well as test low-sulfur diesel. Launched in …
when the world is bidding for low emissions and high efficiency, any technology that does away with the carburettor in a two-wheeler is definitely going to rule the industry. On June 26, Hero Honda, for the first time in India, launched the fuel injection (fi) technology in two-wheelers under the …
• The European Union has banned imports of untreated feathers from countries close to or neighbouring Turkey, where cases of avian flu have been recently reported. The countries affected by the ban are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq and Syria. • The Chinese government has ordered an end to the …
