Ten years after Paris launched the wildly popular Velib bicycle-sharing scheme, the grey two-wheelers that have spawned imitators worldwide are getting a makeover. On Wednesday, the City of Paris unveiled two new, colourful models that will replace the existing, 20,000-strong Velib fleet from January, 30 percent of which will be …
Sanjib Chakraborty KOLKATA, July 28: It's been three months since the electric furnace for the crematorium ground of Madhyamgram municipality has been completed, but one detail has kept it from being inaugurated and put to use. An unclaimed body is required for the trial run of the furnace, located at …
Japan Post Service Co will convert all of its fleet of some 20,000 automobiles to electric vehicles over about eight years starting this fiscal year, company officials said Monday. The move by the mail delivery unit of Japan Post Holdings Co is designed to cope with soaring crude oil prices …
A Palestinian-designed electric car drew admiring stares on Tuesday from Gazans forced to use cooking oil to power their cars because of a fuel shortage. "At first people laughed, saying it would not work, now people are begging us to convert their cars," said Fayez Amman. Working with fellow electrical …
The head of an Israeli-backed electric car project estimated on Sunday that its partner, the Renault-Nissan alliance, would likely invest $500 million to $1 billion in the swappable-battery electric cars. "This is the cost for a three-year car programme," Shai Agassi, the founder and chief executive of California-based Project Better …
Kleiner Perkins is joining hands with another clean technology-focused venture capital firm and a Norwegian company to bring electric cars to the United States, signalling a Silicon Valley push to make American driving greener. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Boston-based RockPort Capital Partners and electric car maker Think Global will …
California regulators cut by 70 percent the number of emission-free vehicles that automobile manufacturers must sell in California in the three years beginning in 2012. At the same time, the regulators effectively required, for the first time, that tens of thousands of plug-in hybrid vehicles be sold in those years. …
India's electric car Reva sets the wheels in motion in climate-conscious UK IT'S only a little longer than a longish stride and as silent as tip-toeing; it's a car without a conventional engine or fuel tank that so far only Bangalore and London really share. G-Wiz: that's what the London …
• Traditional owners from Northern Territory, Australia gathered outside Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney to rally against plans to place a nuclear waste facility on their land • All new and renewed US passports will contain radio frequency identification chips that will include a digital photo and all other …
