Electric bikes, or e-bikes, are close substitutes for cars and two-wheelers because they cover longer distances with less effort. Thus, e-bikes will play a key role in shifting passenger and freight trips away from high-polluting private vehicles and generating fewer emissions if used at scale. While vehicle electrification has focused …
Following repeated incidences of fire in low-floor buses, manufacturer Tata Motors admitted that most vehicles involved did have a mechanical fault. Of the eight buses, three have reported trouble with the brake system.
NEW DELHI: An increased number of checks and strengthened maintenance system are required for the Tata Motors Ltd. (TML) supplied low-floor Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses, TML commercial vehicle business unit president Ravi Pisharody said here on Thursday. Addressing a press conference in the wake of an increasing number of …
Worried over the incidents of fire on low floor buses, Environment Pollution Control Authority chairman Bhure Lal has suggested both DTC and Tata Motors carry out a double checking system in these buses. At a high level meeting convened by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to examine the rising cases of …
New Delhi: This is, perhaps, the mother of all U-turns. After drawing flak from Delhi government for its statement about how bad roads, and not faulty maintenance, was causing fires and smokes in its buses, Tata Motors has written to the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) denying it had ever said …
A cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here today endorsed state's new Transport Policy. Under the policy, District Transport Authorities will be established on the lines of State Transport Authority and Regional Transport Authority. The committee headed by the district collector will issue permits and determine routes …
7th Case In Month, Probe Ordered New Delhi: In yet another incident of a low-floor DTC bus catching fire in the capital, a bus on the Outer Mudrika route caught fire near Pankha Road late on Saturday night. This is the seventh such incident in less than a month. According …
The conductor noticed smoke coming out of the rear of the vehicle and asked the driver to stop the bus The passengers of a low-floor Delhi Transport Corporation bus had some scary moments on Saturday evening when their bus caught fire in Delhi cantonment area. The incident, seventh of its …
Under fire from the Delhi government for recurring incidents of fire and breakdowns in its low-floor buses, Tata Motors came under the Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the heavy vehicle manufacturers, Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland, to file affidavits stating when they would be able to complete the supply of low-floor buses to the Delhi Government. A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice A. P. Shah and Justice S. …
Payment of Rs 150 crores on the lot of 90 buses has been withheld along with Rs 4 crores out of the total bill of Rs 10 crores to be paid to the Tatas The Delhi Assembly on Monday was rocked on the issue of six low-floor CNG buses catching …
New Delhi: The Delhi government has imposed a Rs 4-crore penalty on Tata Motors for poor maintenance of its low-floor bus fleet in the city after as many as six incidents of fire and other major snags were reported in these vehicles in the past fortnight alone. Chief minister Sheila …
NEW DELHI: Hot on the heels of two low-floor Delhi Transport Corporation buses developing snags leading to a fire in one of them on Saturday, yet another bus was hit by a mechanical snag at Sagarpur in West Delhi on Sunday. Half a dozen such incidents have been reported this …
NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly V. K. Malhotra has expressed concern at recent incidents of fire in some of the newly-commissioned low-floor buses, saying they have become a cause for alarm even as the terror of Blueline buses persists as they are yet to be phased out …
Concerned over a spurt in fires aboard CNG buses, the transport department of Delhi Government is now tightening its noose around bus operators evading the mandatory CNG-kit test. Following the special enforcement drive ordered by Delhi Government, the transport department has impounded over 300 privately owned vehicles including Blueline buses …
Third incident in last seven days; Tata Motors fined Megha Suri Singh & Dwaipayan Ghosh | TNN New Delhi: For the third time this week, a DTC low-floor bus caught fire. No one was hurt, but questions are being asked about the safety of the new CNG fleet, delivery of …
Govt blames negligence, warns supplier Tata Motors which is also responsible for maintenance Another low-floor bus caught fire on Thursday morning in Moti Nagar area of West Delhi. The 15 passengers, the driver and the conductor escaped unhurt. The bus, plying on route 832 from Janakpuri to Inderlok metro station, …
