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 …
Smog digest is a news service on vehicular pollution based on news clippings selected from leading Indian newspapers and newsmagazine. It also highlights the key developments from South Asian countries. The months witnessed lots of action and developments on the vehicular pollution front in India.
ERODE: An academician-turned-entrepreneur in Erode has claimed to have made a device intended to improve fuel efficiency of petrol cars by about 15 per cent on normal road conditions. S. Nehru, who worked as a faculty in a private polytechnic college, converted his idea into a product at the Technology …
Smog digest is a news service on vehicular pollution based on news clippings selected from leading Indian newspapers and newsmagazine. It also highlights the key developments from South Asian countries. The month witnessed lots of action and developments on the vehicular pollution front in India.
REINVENTING the wheel was not exactly what Myshkin Ingawale had in mind when he set out from NIT-Bhopal to MIT, with a stopover at IIM Calcutta. But the 27-year-old
Once you finish feasting your eyes on the line of technologically -advanced luxury cars by major car manufacturers on display at the 10th Auto Expo, you might want to turn your attention to a non-polluting version, offered by a resourceful group of students. Tucked between a row of stalls is …
London: Imagine owning a car that does all the driving while you sit back and relax. Your fantasy seems to be getting closer to reality, thanks to scientists who are designing such a
This is a public notice soliciting public opinion on the unfinished agenda of the emissions standards roadmap finalised way back in 2003. This seeks Euro IV standards in 11 cities and Euro III in the rest of the country by 2010. But this notification was not given adequate publicity in …
Smog digest is a news service on vehicular pollution based on news clippings selected from leading Indian newspapers and newsmagazine. It also highlights the key developments from South Asian countries. The months witnessed lots of action and developments on the vehicular pollution front in India.
Washington: Ordinary paper could one day be used as a lightweight battery to power the devices that are now enabling the printed word to be eclipsed by email, ebooks and online news. Scientists at Stanford University in California reported on Monday that they have successfully turned paper coated with ink …
Hydrogen Blend To Curb NOx Emissions Neha Lalchandani | TNN New Delhi: In a move towards converting to greener fuel, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) has started the process of optimizing the engines of certain vehicles for use with hydrogen-blended CNG (HCNG). After research, SIAM and Indian Oil Corporation …
The Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (EV/PHEV) Roadmap for the first time identifies a detailed scenario for the evolution of these types of vehicles and their market penetration, from annual production of a few thousand to over 100 million vehicles by 2050. It finds that the next decade is a …
Washington: A team of scientists has created a prototype of aspeed bump that can capture kinetic energy from vehicles passing by, to convert it into clean green electricity. According to a Fox News report, the prototype, known as the
ONE of the ways to look beyond the global recession is for the automotive industry to take a cue from the semi-conductor industry by re-designing itself. Indian auto industry can take the lead in lightweighting as it is still in the early stage of significant growth and hence, not too …
London, Aug. 30: Automobile engineers have shown that soap bubbles, filled with helium, could improve the fuel efficiency and take the drag out of future cars. Using 12 cameras, a team in Britain has tracked the three millimetre bubbles which swirl around cars in a wind tunnel and found that …
This report presents a side-by-side comparison of fuels and vehicles with the recognition that future technological advances or additional research into unresolved issues, such as the land-use impact of biofuel production, could alter findings and make certain options more or less attractive. The report examines the benefits and challenges of …
US funding for hydrogen-fuelled transportation research got a boost on 17 July as the House of Representatives voted to restore $85 million to the research budget. The administration of President Barack Obama had proposed cutting the funds altogether.
